Netanyahu says he would consider meeting with Rouhani
Israeli leader tells NPR he would ‘stick’ question about Iran’s willingness to continue enrichment ‘in face’ of counterpart
Netanyahu, speaking to National Public Radio as part of a media blitz while in the US, said he would question Rouhani on Tehran’s nuclear program, which the Israeli leader has called to be completely shut down.
“I don’t care about the meeting. I don’t have a problem with the diplomatic process,” Netanyahu said to NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
“I haven’t been offered. If I’m offered, I’d consider it, but it’s not an issue,” he clarified. “If I meet with these people I’d stick this question in their face: Are you prepared to dismantle your program completely? Because you can’t stay with the [nuclear] enrichment.”
He also called Rouhani, considered a relative moderate, the “least bad” candidate of those who were allowed to run in Iran’s June presidential elections.
Netanyahu told NPR that Iran’s overtures toward a deal with the West to curb its uranium enrichment were “hogwash,” but said he would be “delighted” by a “real” deal, according to excerpts published by NPR. The full interview was to air on Morning Edition later Friday.
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‘Dayan pushed PM Meir to consider using nuclear weapons in 1973 war’
Former government aide says the defense minister, badly shaken on day two of the Yom Kippur War, suggested the ultimate option… and Meir told him to ‘forget it’
On the second day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel’s defense minister Moshe Dayan told prime minister Golda Meir to consider making preparations for the use of nuclear weapons, according to an interview with a ministerial aide now being published for the first time.
With Israel taken completely by surprise, Syrian tanks streaking across the Golan Heights and the IDF’s armored divisions in the south losing ground, Dayan returned from the northern front for a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office visibly shaken, and suggested readying the nuclear option, claims Arnon Azaryahu, an aide to another minister in the war-time security cabinet, Israel Galili, in the video-and-text interview.
The interview, which was conducted several years ago by nuclear historian Avner Cohen, was formally made public late Thursday on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It is emerging 40 years after the Yom Kippur War — and precisely as the world focuses attention on Iran’s rogue nuclear program, which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly this week is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran has tried to deflect international scrutiny of its nuclear program by pointing at what Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently claimed were Israel’s “200 nuclear warheads.”
In Arnon Azaryahu’s account, the war-time security cabinet, consisting of Galili, prime minister Meir, defense minister Dayan and deputy prime minister Yigal Allon, held an especially lengthy meeting on October 7, 1973.
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Is the hunt for Rembrandt’s stolen ‘Galilee’ almost over?
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According to the FBI, the Coen brothers-esque heist is reaching its final chapter after over two decades of empty frames in Boston
BOSTON – More than two decades after thieves stole Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” from a Boston museum, the FBI continues to receive new leads about the largest art theft in US history. Soon, detectives hope, the Dutch master’s iconic seascape, and 12 other treasures stolen on a cold March night 23 years ago, will be “back home where they belong.”
On that bitter night of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers were let into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by a security guard. After apparently overpowering two guards and duct-taping them to chairs in the basement, the thieves helped themselves to some of the world’s greatest art treasures.
During an 81-minute nocturnal spree, the 110-year-old museum was relieved of works by Degas, Vermeer and Manet, as well as three Rembrandts. The thirteen stolen pieces were estimated to be worth half a billion dollars – the largest private property theft ever.
Twenty-three years later, empty frames still hang in the museum’s Dutch Room gallery, including one for Rembrandt’s five-foot-tall depiction of Jesus calming a stormy Sea of Galilee. One of many Rembrandts based on scenes from the Bible, it was the artist’s only seascape, painted in 1633 — 380 years ago.
In March, the FBI’s Boston office announced it had determined the identity of the thieves, and that the stolen masterpieces were originally brought to Connecticut and the Philadelphia area. No other details have been released, but FBI officials have said the hunt is in its “final chapter.”
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| Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (photo credit: courtesy) |
“The works stolen from the Gardner are part of what define us as a people, and they’re a big loss for who we are,” Geoff Kelly, a special agent in the FBI’s Boston field office and art crime team member, told the Times of Israel. “With the announcement in March, we are trying to spread a wider net based on our leads in Connecticut and Philadelphia.”
The FBI’s wider net includes an unprecedented $5 million reward for information leading to discovery of the stolen works, as well as immunity from the US Attorney’s Office, Kelly said.
“The case itself is so fascinating, because it’s right out of a Hollywood movie,” Kelly said. “It really resonates with the public.”
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