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Friday 27 January 2017
Netanyahu: Mexican president

President Trump understands ‘danger’ of Iran nuclear deal cancels planned DC
meeting with Trump
IAN DEITCH ing that it will not prevent He spoke about Iran’s com- a ceremony commemo-
Associated Press Iran from gaining nucle- mitment to destroy Israel. rating the systematic mass MARK STEVENSON
JERUSALEM (AP) — Presi- ar weapons’ capability, He spoke about the nature murder of Jews during Associated Press
dent Donald Trump un- which would pose an exis- of this nuclear agreement World War II — show how MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi-
derstands the “danger” of tential threat to Israel. and the danger it poses. the Holocaust is still a cen- can President Enrique
the Iran nuclear deal, the Netanyahu said that de- We spoke about it togeth- tral part of Israel’s psyche. Pena Nieto on Thursday
Israeli prime minister said spite what he described as er,” Netanyahu said. Israel was established just canceled a planned Jan.
31 meeting with President
Donald J. Trump, hours af-
ter Trump tweeted that
the meeting should be
scrapped if Mexico won’t
pay for a border wall.
Pena Nieto’s message on
Twitter ended days of un-
certainty about how he
would respond to Trump’s
aggressive stance toward
the country, and illustrat-
ed the challenges world
leaders are likely to face
in dealing with Trump’s
voluble, Twitter-based di-
plomacy.
It also signaled a remark-
able souring of relations
between the U.S. and its
immediate southern neigh-
bor, one of America’s larg-
est trading partners and a
country with which it shares
a nearly 2,000-mile border.
“This morning we have in-
formed the White House
I will not attend the work-
ing meeting planned for
next Tuesday,” Pena Nieto
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the synagogue at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Jerusalem, tweeted. “Mexico reaffirms
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. In remarks at the Holocaust ceremony on Thursday, Netanyahu said President Donald Trump understands its willingness to work with
the “danger” stemming from the Iran nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
the United States to reach
on Thursday, adding that a revival of anti-Semitism in While the two countries are three years after the end of agreements that benefit
Israel will take all measures the West, the greatest dan- close allies, relations were World War II, and hundreds both nations,” he added.
necessary to stop Tehran ger “comes from Iran.” sometimes tense between of thousands of dazed sur- White House press secre-
from getting atomic weap- The Shiite power and Isra- Netanyahu and President vivors made their way to tary Sean Spicer respond-
ons. el’s archenemy is “calling Barack Obama because of Israel. Six million Jews were ed to the Mexican presi-
Iran agreed in a deal with outright for the destruc- their vastly different world killed by German Nazis and dent’s announcement,
world powers in 2015 to tion of the Jewish state,” views on the Iran deal and their collaborators in the saying: “We’ll look for a
limit its ability to enrich ura- Netanyahu said, adding other issues. Holocaust, wiping out a date to schedule some-
nium in exchange for the that the Iranian regime’s There is sentiment in the third of world Jewry. thing in the future. We will
removal of some interna- calls to “wipe out every Is- nationalist Israeli right wing “As prime minister of Israel, keep the lines of communi-
tional economic sanctions. raeli” have been met with that Trump’s election could I will not be silent ... and we cation open.”
Trump vowed at times dur- “deafening silence” by the usher in a new era of rela- don’t intend to be inactive Earlier Thursday, Trump had
ing the presidential cam- world. tions with the United States. either,” Netanyahu said. tweeted that “If Mexico
paign either to walk away Netanyahu said he be- Netanyahu was speaking “We will take all the mea- is unwilling to pay for the
from the deal or to rene- lieves the Trump era will at the Yad Vashem Holo- sures we need to defend badly needed wall, then it
gotiate it but it is not clear change that. caust memorial in Jerusa- ourselves, and we will take would be better to cancel
what action will be taken “I spoke a few days ago lem on the eve of Interna- all the measures neces- the upcoming meeting” in
now he is in office. to President Trump and he tional Holocaust Remem- sary to prevent Iran from Washington D.C.
Netanyahu is vehemently spoke about the Iranian brance Day. getting the means of mass Trump said Wednesday he
opposed the deal, argu- aggression. His remarks about Iran — at murder.”q would start building a U.S.-
Mexico border wall and
Dutch justice minister resigns weeks before elections has vowed to make Mex-

THE HAGUE, Netherlands on Thursday night, days af- was still a lawmaker. the administration of Prime ico pay for it. Mexico op-
poses the wall and has re-
(AP) — The Dutch security ter evidence emerged that Van der Steur says he Minister Mark Rutte less peatedly said it won’t pay.
and justice minister has re- he was involved in draft- made comments about than two months before Officials had said Mexico
signed amid reports that he ing responses to questions the written responses, but national elections. was “considering” cancel-
was involved in withholding about a deal prosecutors denied advising that infor- Opposition lawmakers used ing after the border wall
information from lawmak- made with a drug trafficker mation be withheld from a debate in the lower house announcement, but Trump
ers. in 2000. parliament. of the Dutch parliament to appeared to beat Mexico
Security and Justice Minis- The alleged actions hap- The allegations pose a po- attack the Van der Steur to the punch in that game
ter Ard van der Steur quit pened in 2015, when he tentially damaging blow to and Rutte’s credibility.q of brinkmanship.q