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Israel Cabinet Minister Lapid on Syria, Iran: Words Not Enough
(CNN) Christiane Amanpour - "If you want to negotiate, you better have a big stick in your hand," Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid told CNN on Tuesday. "It's the Middle East; you have to have sticks with the carrots....Unless there is a credible threat, all the negotiations are just empty words." Not only Syria, but also Iran has to be shown that the world "will not be silent when regimes and dictatorships are gathering weapons of mass destruction." "When the reactor in Qom will be closed, when they will stop enriching uranium, when they take off the enriched uranium they already have, then we can discuss the fact whether we can all hold hands and sing hallelujah together. I'm happy to listen to any new music coming from Iran, but this has to be backed not only by words but also by deeds."