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Israel/Palestine

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2. But, states have no friends, only interests.

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 19, 2017, 06:13 PM

Jan 2017

The major flaw in Obama's approach to Israel is that he views Israel as friend or family, when it's neither, it's merely one of over 150+ foreign countries.

Not our business whether the state their retains a Jewish identity, etc.

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