Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with foreign press representatives on Tuesday, where he described Iran as the main concern for governments in the region. He further asserted that Iran “is determined to move ahead despite every difficulty, every obstacle and every setback to create nuclear weapons”.  While congratulating the US government insisting on imposing economic sanctions, he stressed that “those sanction have not yet achieved their objectives”. The only chance that these sanctions will achieve their objectives is if the sanctions were to follow by incredible military options.  

PM Netanyahu sketched the year 2011, as the year where another truth will be revealed: “who really wants peace”. According to Netanyahu, the conventional wisdom is falsely accusing Israel as the party who does not want peace. “You have to have a lot of “HOTZPA” (insolence) to say that the Israelis do not want peace while 60,000 rockets are “aimed at our houses and cities”. Netanyahu accused the Palestinians and said that they are doing every thing in their power to avoid reaching a peace agreement “the Palestinian never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity… the only way to get peace is to negotiate peace”. According to Netanyahu, even the US government realized it will be difficult and time consuming to broker agreement and therefore refrained from moving forward with negotiations couple of month ago, when Israel agreed to extend the moratorium.

As many as few dozens foreign journalist from news organizations from around the world met Netanyahu in Jerusalem, in a meeting that became a traditional meeting.