The competing narratives about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech before a joint session of Congress regarding Iran’s renegade nuclear program took another twist on Thursday when House Speaker John Boehner, who issued the initial invitation to Netanyahu, fired back at an assertion by a senior Obama Administration official that the speech would be “destructive” to US-Israeli relations. “The president’s national security advisor says it’s destructive for the prime minister of Israel to address the United States Congress. I couldn’t disagree more,” Boehner said at his weekly news conference. “The American people and both parties in Congress have always stood with Israel and nothing, and no one, could get in the way. What is destructive in my view is making a bad deal that paves the way for a nuclear Iran. That’s destructive.” Read More
