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McCain: "Israel is not alone"


By Stan Goodenough
June 02, 2008

“Israel is not alone. The people of Israel reserve a special respect for courage. The State of Israel was created to offer escape from antisemitic persecutions like the Holocaust. The threats to Israel's security are large and growing. Israel's enemies are too numerous, its margin of error too small, and our shared interests and values too great for us to follow any other policy than making certain Israel maintains its qualitative military edge. Tehran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons poses an unacceptable risk, a danger we cannot allow. An Iranian nuclear bomb would pose an existential threat to the people of Israel.”

These were some of the sentiments communicated by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to delegates attending an AIPAC conference in Arlington, VA Monday.

For the full speech go here http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/Read.aspx?guid=97b08426-d9ad-4046-9c05-1ded14fc0b8a

McCain is to be followed to the podium in the coming hours by both contenders for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

While widely understood to be a "panderfest" for the Jewish vote - as Fox News called it, the presidential hopefuls are all expected to deliver important foreign policy speeches to the conference.

In his 15 minute speech McCain hit all the right buttons - Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon - earning applause every time he did so.

But even as he stressed the "everlasting alliance" between the United States and Israel," the senator made it clear that, as president, he will expect Israel to toe the line on the Washington-directed land-for-peace process that is so detrimental to Israel's security in both the sh ort term and the long.

As such McCain has put himself firmly in the camp of virtually all Israel's "true supporters" in the world: Israel's "friendly foes."

Recent US administrations have made it clear that there is a price to be paid for maintaining the alliance: Israel's willingness to take "risks for peace."

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