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Source: http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/editorials/2015/02/editorial_listening_to_netanyahu
Listening to Netanyahu
(Boston Herald) Editorial - The Obama administration should just shut up about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled Tuesday speech to Congress. Israel's very existence, not America's, would be threatened by an Iranian nuclear bomb. Only amateurs let personal grievances and lapses in protocol distract them from pursuit of the national interest. Clearly Netanyahu has not forgotten threats from Iranian leaders pledging to wipe Israel off the map. Administration officials resent a foreign leader's lobbying against their policy, but did not shrink from deploying Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, to lobby for it during Cameron's January visit. Such inconsistency makes it harder to take the administration seriously.