Steve Rothman: “But you know, my friends, I think it is time for a little history, and in 5 minutes I would like to give a little…”

“But you know, my friends, I think it is time for a little history, and in 5 minutes I would like to give a little history lesson. I think it is important to know what the facts are. A lot of people think that the State of Israel is somehow a stranger to the Middle East, is brand new, a brand new country in the Middle East, amidst, people think, Arab countries in particular that have been there for centuries. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Let us take a look at the map. First of all, you see the map of the Middle East, a rather large area. As you can tell, this tiny little speck here, this sliver of land, that is the State of Israel. Here is Egypt, Syria, Lebanon; Iraq is here, Iran is here, Saudi Arabia is here, Oman here, Yemen here, Kuwait is here. Look at this entire huge land mass, and look at tiny little Israel.”