Israeli Opposition Leader Slams Netanyahu’s Congress Speech

“The painful truth is that after all the applause, Netanyahu was left alone and Israel was left isolated, and the negotiations [on Iran’s nuclear program] will continue without any Israeli involvement,” Herzog said.
 
The opposition leader also said that Netanyahu’s speech undermined US-Israel ties.
 
“This speech badly damaged US-Israel relations. It won’t change the [US] administration's stance, but will only widen the rift with our greatest friend and strategic ally,” he noted.
 
In a speech to the US Congress on Tuesday, Netanyahu depicted Iran as a "threat to the entire world” and called on Washington not to negotiate a “very bad deal” with Tehran over its nuclear program.
 
"We've been told that no deal is better than a bad deal. Well this is a bad deal, a very bad deal, We're better off without it," he said.
 
He claimed that a final nuclear agreement with Iran will change the Middle East for the worst as “not a single [Iranian] nuclear facility would be demolished.”
 
In reaction to the speech, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the Israeli prime minister is trying to have a disruptive effect on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear negotiations with world powers.
 
US President Barack Obama also said that Netanyahu’s speech contained “nothing new.”