>> I have said this before and will say it again -- if not for our reflexive bias for Israel in the Middle East, Sept. 11 would not have happened
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>>Mike, it was this kind of talk that prompted guys like John Koziol to come up here and use words like "dumb-ass".
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>>The problem is that we have not done ENOUGH to back Israel.
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>John is a good friend but you know his politics as well as I do. He is as conservative as you, if not more so.
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>Why exactly is Israel our problem? I am not saying we should stand by and let them be attacked. But let's not forget who the heavily armed nation in the Middle East is.

Yes, Netinyahu (sic) is a rock and a hard nosed negotiator. He is also intelligent and responds to reason. If he were American, he'd be a Republican . . . and now he has to deal with Hillary and Biden. :)