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As a matter of fact, Obama said everything that anybody would want to hear in that article. In my view, talking about Israel’s right to defend itself is too basic and elementary to get excited about. I would like to hear Obama say that Israel has a right to be Israel; that is a Jewish State and restored and repatriated Jewish national homeland on the same original square mileage (or kilometers) that was the original Jewish Satte and Jewish national homeland. If this language comes hard to him he can practice using some other ancient nationality like the Armenians, the Kurds, the Mesopotamians, the Lebanese Maronite Christians, the Egyptian Coptic Christians, the Tibetans. Oops, sorry guys, you’re all politically incorrect too.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 12/29/08 at 11:09 pm

Israel has the right and obligation to defend its citizens

The brutal slaughter of a family of 5 in Itamar just shows that we are dealing with a barbaric mentality.

It is a known fact that any country if attacked, its citizens kidnapped, rocket bombardment on a daily basis.
Has the right and obligation to defend its citizens.

It is sad that innocent civilians are hurt, but that is the cost of war and conflict.

Any government and its citizen who do not resist terrorism and let terrorist organization entrench themselves in their country and utilize those countries as bases of armed terrorism against a neighboring country. Eventually pays the price for permitting such actions.

If you gave the Arab population a vote in Israel and the west bank and Jerusalem the option to vote freely and without intimidation, you would find out, that they would rather be living under Israel’s government. They derive more stability more benefits, pensions, welfare, etc.

If the United States or any other government were to be attacked from across the border on a daily basis, have its citizens kidnapped, rockets launched at them on a daily basis, the citizens would demand that immediate military action be initiated with no holes barred, collateral damage or not. That is the fact of life.

Terrorist and those who support them do not know what peace is, they thrive on violence. That is the only way they control the masses. Any negotiations or compromise only strengthen those terrorist organizations.  When a poison strikes the human body, the only way to address it, is to remove it and destroy it completely.

That is the way the terrorist organizations should be treated.

“Like all sovereign nations, Israel has not only a right, but moreover, an obligation, to ensure the safety and security of her citizens”.

As quoted in a statement “the only time of a chance for peace is, when the Arab mother would love her children more than she hates the Israelis.

The big mistake is that people are missing the economic benefits for Israel and its neighbors. That is if there was a true peace, you take the Israeli Technology and know how, add to it the Arab labor and natural resources – and you have an economic prosperity beyond your widest dreams.

YJ Draiman

Comment by YJ Draiman for Mayor of LA on 3/20/11 at 10:52 am

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