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I'm for Israel's right to exist.

Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

I think we need to stand with Israel.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

We do not ask Israeli Arabs to share in the Zionist dream. We are asking them to accept that Israel is a Jewish state - the only one in the world.