“People tell me, don’t touch this issue,” he says of the Palestinian conflict.
But Friedman says he can’t leave the issue to a future administration that won’t recognize “the existential risk to Israel if Judea and Samaria are overcome by terrorists in the manner” that happened in the Gaza Strip after the 2005 withdrawal.
A future government won’t understand that “in the Middle East, peace comes through strength, not just through words on a paper.”
He says he can’t leave it to a future administration that is “potentially willing to penalize Israel for having the audacity to survive in a dangerous neighborhood” of the Middle East.
“We will continue to work with the Israeli government, with the Palestinians, with other regional players” to pursue peace, he says, acknowledging there will be “some turbulence along the way.”
“Work with us, stay with us, pray with us for peace in the holy land,” he says of Israel’s supporters.
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