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Israel has a right to defend itself.

I think it suffices to say that Israel has the right to defend itself.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.