{"id":5396,"date":"2013-02-17T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2013-02-20T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:59:23","slug":"netanyahu-iran-shortening-time-to-crossing-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/netanyahu-iran-shortening-time-to-crossing-red-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu: Iran shortening time to crossing red line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5399 lazyload\" title=\"Israel Iran USA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA.jpg 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/189;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5399 \" title=\"Israel Iran USA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Israel-Iran-USA.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three major players in Israel, Iran and the United States. (Photo by JTA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By ISRAEL HAYOM\/Exclusive to JNS.org<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians are getting ever closer to developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jewish American leaders on Monday in Jerusalem. \u201cI drew a line at the UN last time I was there,\u201d Netanyahu told leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The Israeli Prime Minister refered to the diagram of a bomb he presented to the United Nations General Assembly last September, on which he drew a red line symbolizing the danger of the Iranian quest for nuclear capability. At that time he set a rough deadline of this coing summer as the date by which Iran could have enough highly enriched material to produce a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey haven\u2019t crossed that line, but what they\u2019re doing is to shorten the time that it will take them to cross that line,\u201d the Netanyahu said, according to <em>Israel Hayom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said the way Iran is shortening that time \u201cis by putting in new, faster centrifuges that cut the time by one third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has to be stopped, for the interest of peace and security, for the interest of the entire world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference of Presidents is the central coordinating body for American Jewry, representing 52 national Jewish agencies from across the political and religious spectrums. It is chaired by native New Orleanian Richard Stone.<\/p>\n<p>To stop Iran\u2019s nuclear progress, according to Netanyahu, \u201cyou have to put greater pressure on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to upgrade the sanctions,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd they have to know that if the sanctions and diplomacy fails, they will face a credible military threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Netanyahu said his vision of a Palestinian state, which he first presented in 2009 at Bar-Ilan University, had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the framework for this peace is what I outlined in my speech in Bar-Ilan University: two states for two peoples\u2014a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think to reach this solution we have to negotiate in good faith,\u201d Netanyahu added. \u201cNegotiating in good faith means you don\u2019t place preconditions. In the last four years the Palestinians have regrettably placed preconditions time after time, precondition after precondition. My hope is that they leave these preconditions aside and get to the negotiating table so we don&#8217;t waste another four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These remarks, spoken leading up to a planned visit to Israel by U.S. President Barack Obama, outlined the main topics Netanyahu aims to discuss with Obama. U.S. officials recently informed the Prime Minister\u2019s Office that one of the main objectives of Obama\u2019s visit is to communicate the message to Netanyahu that he must enable the president to continue engaging Iran diplomatically and that Israel must refrain from any \u201cmilitary surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Netanyahu%3A%20Iran%20shortening%20time%20to%20crossing%20red%20line\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2012,184,8790,8795,8788,759,674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}