Original Article on The Huffington Post

JERUSALEM Israel's prime minister delivers a highly anticipated policy speech Sunday in which he could use the re-election of Iran's hard-line president to boost his argument that Tehran poses a bigger threat to Mideast peace than his refusal to endorse Palestinian statehood. Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing that argument as he publicly defies President Barack Obama's appeals to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank and start negotiating the creation of a Palestinian state. The re-election Friday of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the street protests by opponents who think the vote was rigged will make the international audience more receptive to Netanyahu's position on Iran, said Iran expert David Menashri...(read more)