Netanyahu? Perfect? After he gave control of 97% of Hebron to the PA? I see daily before me Netanyahu’s flaws. It seems that every big-time right winger makes major concessions. Menahem Begin, the George Washington of Israel, gave back the Sinai. Now we’re going to have to fight over it again, unless we don’t really need Eilat and the Pacific/Indian Ocean shipping we can only get through it.
The Koran speaks of the Jewish return, and the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash. The more we equivocate and vacillate, the less the Arabs believe the time has come for Sura 17 to be fulfilled, and the more grief they give us.
I went on a Birthright trip to Israel a couple of years ago. With you being in Israel, I'm sure you're familiar with the program. It was a 10-day trip and we had 5 members of the Israeli military with us for four of those days. They really opened my eyes to the stuff that you guys put up with every day. It's hard to imagine how tiny the State of Israel is until you actually go there. Traveling from the north to the south takes some time, but less time than driving across New York State, and traveling east to west takes almost no time. We spent a day in Eilat and I remember being able to see how close the Egyptian and Jordanian borders were to the beach. Israel is surrounded by enemies and the UN keeps urging them to give up more and more land for this mythical peace that I keep hearing about, but never comes.