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  Israel's on wrong course
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Last EditedGuy  Jul 19, 2006 12:00am
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MediaNewspaper - Madison Capital Times
News DateWednesday, July 19, 2006 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionCongressional "Friends of Israel" are busy making noises about the "need" for the U.S. to provide that Middle Eastern land with full support as it assaults its neighbors.

But no genuine friend of Israel can be happy with what is being done in that country's name by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his misguided followers.

Israel's attack on Lebanon, which has already killed and wounded hundreds and destroyed much of that fragile democracy's infrastructure including airports, seaports, bridges and roads has done nothing to make Israel safer or more secure from threats posed by the militant Islamic organization Hezbollah. Indeed, the terrorist group's attacks on targets in northern Israel have become more brazen and deadly since Israel began striking Lebanon.

As Henry Siegman, the former head of the American Jewish Congress, explains, "In Lebanon as in Gaza, it is not Israel's right to protect its civilian population from terrorist aggression that is at issue. It is the way Israel goes about exercising that right.
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