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Monday, June 29, 2015
Excerpts on Gaza and Iran from PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Meeting

Excerpts from PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee Meeting
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Following are excerpts from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks
today, (Monday, 29 June 2015), at the start of a meeting of the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee:

Gaza:

"I would like to express my appreciation to the sailors of the Israel Navy
for their perfect and precise operation in stopping the ship off the coast
of Gaza. This entire flotilla is hypocritical. There is no need for these
small boats to deliver consumer goods or humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
Since Operation Protective Edge, Israel has delivered 1.6 million tons of
materials to Gaza, more than any other country, in a clear manner, as our
unequivocal policy. This means almost a ton of equipment for every resident,
800 trucks a day.

I would compare this to the cargo of this boat. Approximately 500,000 such
boats laden with goods – this is what compares to what Israel has
transferred. Thus, there is no need for this. Neither is there any problem,
if they want to deliver humanitarian goods to Gaza, it is possible to do so
via the land crossings, with Israel filtering out – of course – the
possibility of transferring weapons through these crossings.

Instead, they chose to be defiant here. They could have sailed to Syria,
where over 300,000 people have been slaughtered, millions have lost their
homes and millions have been exiled from their country, but they chose to
demonstratively provoke the State of Israel, the only true democracy in the
Middle East, which is fighting terrorists that deliberately fire at its
citizens and who intentionally hide behind Palestinian civilians.

Therefore, this flotilla is rife with hypocrisy and I am pleased to say that
its public and propaganda effect is less because people around the world are
beginning to understand the lie involved here."

Iran:

"I am not impressed by the potholes in the nuclear talks. To my regret, what
we are seeing are Iran's increasing demands, and the major powers'
concessions which are also increasing, in keeping with the Iranian pressure.
This agreement is going from a bad agreement to a worse agreement, and is
becoming worse by the day. In effect, it is paving Iran's way to being not
only a major power with one or two nuclear bombs, but with an unlimited
arsenal within a decade with the possibility of achieving several atomic
bombs beforehand, by violating the monitoring which, in any case, is full of
holes. Above all, in addition to this, the agreement also gives Iran many
billions of dollars, apparently hundreds of billions of dollars, within a
short time, which will allow it to finance its increasing aggression, first
of all the murderous stranglehold it is using around the State of Israel,
but also in other parts of the Middle East that are subject to its
aggression, such as Yemen, Iraq and many other places.

Therefore, there is both a conventional threat and a non-conventional
threat, which in my view will heighten the nuclear arms race in the Middle
East. For all of these reasons, this is a bad agreement. I appreciate the
fact that there is a broad consensus within the State of Israel against this
agreement. There are also increasing voices in the West against this
agreement; they understand the significance its implementation would have on
global security, theirs as well. But, as has been said, this debate is still
taking place. I think it is important that Israel's voice be heard, along
with that of many others."

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