Political Quotes

“I would like to read briefly a couple of paragraphs from his article because I think they encapsulate why it is so important that America not waiver at this critical hour. Writes Mr. Will: Today many people say that the Arabs and their European echoes would be mollified if Israel would change its behavior. People who say that do not understand the centrality of anti-Semitism in the current crisis. This crisis has become the second--and final?--phase of the struggle for a ``final solution to the Jewish question.'' As [Ruth] Wisse said 11 years ago, and as cannot be said too often, anti-Semitism is not directed against the behavior of Jews but against the existence of the Jews. If the percentage of the world's population that was Jewish in the era of the Roman Empire were Jewish today, there would be 200 million Jews [in the world]. There are [only] 13 million. Five million are clustered in an embattled salient on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, facing hundreds of millions of enemies. Ron Rosenbaum writes, ``The concentration of so many Jews in one place--and I use the word 'concentration' advisedly--gives the world a chance to kill the Jews en masse again.'' I say, Mr. President, that the pride I felt as a young boy in Harry Truman's defense of Israel in its infancy is pride that I feel as an American today.…”