Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to participate in a “united global front against terrorism.”
Netanyahu made the appeal during a Fox News Channel interview with Neil Cavuto on Wednesday.
Netanyahu, a former Prime Minister and future Prime Minster hopeful in Israel, puts Mr. Obama in a tight spot.
Netanyahu wants the elimination of Hamas: considering the group equal to if not the same as other terror groups like Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.
Hezbollah and Hamas are both supported by Iran.
Obama and Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton are urging a new diplomacy with Iran. Netanyahu rejects this notion as unworkable.
Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel must remove Gaza’s Hamas rulers from power to ensure victory over “terror.”
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Israel’s Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters during a meeting with journalists from the Foreign Press Association at the King David hotel in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Israeli troops advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said, hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Islamic militants that they face an ‘iron fist’ unless they agree to Israeli terms for an end to war in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
