There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.
And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.
If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.
Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
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