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By The Drum Team, Editorial

March 18, 2011 | 2 min read

Is it all going to be fluff, or will there be some serous stuff too? Piers Morgan answered that question about his CNN show this week with his most impressive interview yet - flying to Israel to interview Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

It was very much a heavyweight interview, with CNN later posting a transcript.

Netanyahu talked of the terrible tragedy in Japan and said, " This is a confluence of a natural disaster and a man-made disaster and the cloud of radioactivity. It certainly caused me to reconsider the projects of building civil nuclear power plants. In fact, you'd have to give me a very good argument to do it. And fortunately we found natural gas."

Israel currently has no civilian nuclear energy programme and Morgan asked Netanyahu if he was saying he might actually stop any kind of civilian programme in future.

" I think we'll go for the gas," said Netanyahu.

"I think we'll skip the nuclear."

Morgan asked about the winds of change in the Middle East. "It didn't begin in Tunisia," said Netanyahu. "It began in Tehran a year and a half ago. Millions went to the streets and called for freedom, for democracy and they were brutally put down."

Netanyahu covered all the bases: Mubarak, Libya, Tehran, Lebanon, Gaza and Israel's 'future. He told how the Israelis can achieve peace with the Palestinians. The interview was a major coup for Piers Morgan . You can catch the transcript here.