You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.
Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.
There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
Israel cannot afford to be duped.
We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.
One cannot forsake the security of Israelis.
If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.