Saudi nuke ‘last thing we want,’ Netanyahu says after US inks energy deal

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced his strong objection to Saudi Arabia acquiring a nuclear bomb, voicing caution over its planned nuclear program.

Speaking on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, Netanyahu praised President Donald Trump for attaching the condition that Riyadh must normalize relations with Israel to have a nuclear program, the former of which has been one of Netanyahu’s top priorities for years. In his praise, however, he snuck in caution around Saudi Arabia.

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