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The Boston GlobeMarch 4, 2015Netanyahu’spersistent audacity endangers US-Israel bond Bravo toMichael A. Cohen (Opinion, March 3) for exposing what I think is the realmotive for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a jointsession of Congress. It would be well to remember that the prime minister andother officials have been predicting since the early 1990s that the next yearIran will have a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu’s national security people have toldhim, time and again, to stop this tall tale and yet he continues. Perhaps it isbecause, in his six years as prime minister, by crying wolf constantlyNetanyahu has found a good distraction from the hard work of making peace withthe Palestinians. Then, egged on by his Republican cheerleadersand the Israel-can-do-no-wrong crowd in the United States, there is his audacity,and his abhorrent, shameless, self-serving attitude toward the president of theUnited States. No American president has done more for the security of Israelthan President Obama. Surely the prime minister knows this, and yet he persistsin behavior that is endangering this special relationship and with it thenational security of Israel. Fariborz S.FatemiMcLean, Va.The writer is a former professional staff member ofthe House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee.