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Steve Rothman: “The question is what should Israel be doing now. Israel is doing now what the United States is doing now: protecting its…”

On the recordApril 17, 2002
The question is what should Israel be doing now. Israel is doing now what the United States is doing now: protecting its people from terrorists, and bringing justice to them or bringing them to justice, until these people either will say we will live in peace with you, or they will be so disabled by our military that they no longer threaten our men, women and children. That is what Israel is doing. Israel, which has tremendous military intelligence-sharing with the United States for 50 years, and provides us with great military advantage in the Middle East, only one of many reasons they have been our best friend and remain our most important strategic ally in the whole Middle East for the last 55 years.
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Steve Rothman
New Jersey

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Discussing Israel's military actions and its relationship with the United States.

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