And suggested mr netanyahu risked making his country a pariah. Republicans have already hit back at his words. Schumer is one of americas highest ranking jewish politicians and a close ally of President Biden. Heres some of what he had to say in the senate. The fourth major obstacle to peace is israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like ministers smotrich and ben gvir and the settlers in the west bank. The State Department has responded to Chuck Schumer s comments, stressing they are not a reflection of President Bidens position. Obviously, congress is an independent branch of government. I think the government of israel understands quite well how the Us Government works. They interact frequently, notjust with members of the executive branch, but with members of congress, including senator schumer, who has travelled to israel a number of times over the years. And im sure they fully understand that he speaks for himself.
Republicans have already hit back at his words. Schumer is one of americas highest ranking jewish politicians and a close ally of President Biden. Heres some of what he had to say in the senate. The fourth major obstacle to peace is israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like ministers smotrich and ben gvir and the settlers in the west bank. The State Department has responded to Chuck Schumer s comments, stressing they are not a reflection of President Biden s position. Obviously, congress is an independent branch of government. I think the government of israel understands quite well how the Us Government works. They interact frequently, notjust with members of the executive branch, but with members of congress, including senator schumer, who has travelled to israel a number of times over the years. And im sure they fully understand that he speaks for himself. Hes obviously someone we are in close contact with, but not a
That unprecedented large scale iranian attack on israel last sunday. both publicly and privately us officials were colin for a de escalation, we know that any phone, between president biden and benjamin netanyahu, mr biden essentially we understand said to mr netanyahu, you have got a win here, we were hearing it earlier, he was saying, you need to pocket this win, you look strong, they look weak, leave it at that. he also said we know that the us would not support any direct military confrontation with iran, which is what appears to have happened tonight. with iran, which is what appears to have happened tonight. earlier i spoke to former state department correspondent for cbs news christina ruffini. i asked her,what s she hearing in washington. i v
Unconfirmed report that has happened in iran? there is an unconfirmed report that some i has happened in iran? there is an | unconfirmed report that some kind has happened in iran? there is an i unconfirmed report that some kind of the deal has been done between washington and israel, whereby israel would agree to restrict its response to last weekend s strikes by iran, in other words carry out their very limited, tiny attack, which it appears to have done, on iran, and in return israel will get the green light to go into rafa. there has been no official confirmation of that. that would sound quite odd i have to say, given the very vocal opposition that the us has given to israel going into rafa. remember, that is worth roughly 1.2 million palestinians who have been displaced in most cases are already crammed in. it is the last place in casa, the already overcrowded and heavily damaged gaza
Correspondent will vernon in washington. let me bring you some pictures now. let me bring you some pictures. iran s semi official tasnim news agency, which is close to the islamic revolution guard corps, has posted a video with a caption saying, isfahan s nuclear site is completely safe. the footage appears to show a man checking his watch near the isfahan nuclear technology centre. the camera then zooms in on several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. iran insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful and denies it has any ambitions to develop nuclear weapons. but israel accuses iran of developing nuclear capability that could be used to make a weapon. let s speak to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. just tell us, are we hearing anything from israel about this reported attack on iran? the israeli