Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday urged the international community to “use force” if Iran develops a nuclear weapon and reiterated his support for a “peaceful” Palestinian state during his speech to the UN General Assembly.
In recent months, Israel has launched an intense diplomatic offensive aimed at convincing the United States and the main European powers (United Kingdom, France and Germany) not to recover the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program of 2015 (Joint Global Action Plan, JCPOA in its acronym in English), subsequently denounced by the US administration of Donald Trump, who withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
for more than a week Several officials have suggested the deal might not be renewed until mid-November.a deadline that Prime Minister Lapid is trying to use to pressure Westerners into imposing a tougher approach to negotiations.
The only way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is to put a credible threat on the table. Only in this way will it be possible to negotiate a longer and more solid agreement with them”, declared Lapid in the rostrum of the General Assembly.
“It must be made clear to Iran, if it goes ahead with its nuclear program, that the world will not react with words, but will use force,” Lapid added.
Israel, which considers Iran its main enemy, also accuses Tehran of financing Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamastwo armed movements stationed along the borders of the Jewish state.
Lapid, in full campaign for the legislative elections on November 1, also guaranteed that, despite the “obstacles”, an “agreement with the PalestiniansBased on two states for both peoples, it is the best thing that can be done to guarantee the security and economy of Israel, and to offer a future to our children.”
Peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians have been blocked since 2014. The current strategy of the Lapid government is to try to support the Palestinian economy without starting a new peace process with the head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, 87, increasingly questioned in and who will speak on Friday at the UN General Assembly.
Source: Observadora
