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Saturday
Jul102010

Israel Video: Netanyahu "Why the World Needs Us" (8 July)

On Thursday, when asked whether direct talks with PA President Mahmoud Abbas would lead to an agreement within a year; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answered at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: "Yes, I think so."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3jwcbXHr8o[/youtube]

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Describing the whole picture of the region, Netanyahu said that "Israel provides a strategic service to Western values in an unstable region beginning with West India and ends with somewhere in North Africa". Netanyahu added: "At the heart of instability, Israel is the source of stability."

Netanyahu added:
The service Israel does in the Middle East is much appreciated by the governments that are actually acting to stabilize the Middle East; chief among them is the United States.