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...The speaker answer voiced an opinion many have suspected, but no one in the U.S. government has admitted publicly: the White House just doesn't like the Israeli Prime Minister.
There’s so secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu; frankly, I didn’t want that getting in the way and quashing what I thought was a real opportunity.When asked by Chris Wallace why he invited the Israeli Premier to talk to Congress, the speaker said it important for the Congress to hear Netanyahu's expert perspective.
The fact is that we had every right to do what we did. I wanted the prime minister to come here. There's a serious threat facing the world, and radical Islamic terrorists are not going to go away. The president devoted but a few words to it in his State of the Union address. And then when it comes to the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon, these are important messages that the Congress needs to hear and the American people need to hear. And I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is the perfect person to deliver the message of how serious this threat is.
