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JERUSALEM (AP) — Opinion polls in Israel indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party received a slight bump upward after his address to Congress yesterday. It came two weeks before Israeli elections.
A poll on Israel's Channel 10 shows Netanyahu's Likud party picking up two seats to 23, putting it neck and neck with the dovish opposition.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, is responding to President Barack Obama's assertion that the Israeli leader had offered no viable alternative to the negotiations with Iran. In a statement issued after he arrived back home, Netanyahu says he proposed a "practical alternative" with "tougher restrictions" that would extend the time it would take Iran to build a nuclear weapon.
He said his proposal also would maintain restrictions until Tehran stops what he calls "its sponsorship of terrorism around the world, its aggression against its neighbors and its calls for Israel's destruction."
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110-a-11-(Ray Takeyh (tuh-KAY'), senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, in conference call with reporters)-"making unreasonable demands"-Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations says Netanyahu suggested relatively modest changes in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear ambitions. (4 Mar 2015)
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106-w-35-(Warren Levinson, AP correspondent, with Robert Danin (duh-NEEN'), senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations)--The debate over Israel is growing increasingly partisan, says a veteran Middle East watcher after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress. AP correspondent Warren Levinson reports. (4 Mar 2015)
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APPHOTO WX102: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Since Republicans took control of Congress two months ago, an elaborate tug of war has broken out between GOP lawmakers and Obama over who calls the shots on major issues for the next two years. In the course of a few hours Tuesday, House Republicans caved to Obama on Homeland Security funding and immigration. Yet they also antagonized him by giving Israel's prime minister a perch in Congress to rail against nuclear talks with Iran. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (3 Mar 2015)
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