Gadi Eisenkot: “No one can rewrite history and turn the aggressor into the victim.”

In the face of terrorism and the darkest forces of hatred - which New York City knows all too well from the horrors of September 11 - truth must always prevail.

Authorities must send a clear message, particularly during the election campaign, that political violence would not be accepted.

Israel needs to know when to go to war, rather than seeing in war an aim to itself.

This is a leadership to which the words responsibility and personal example are foreign.