THE ONLY THING HE DIDN'T SAY IS, "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?":

Ben-Eliezer: Americans Don't Realize What They've Done (Hillel Fendel, 2/04/11, INN)

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer - a former army general, Labor Party Chairman and Cabinet minister - praises Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whom he has known for many years, and has strong criticism for U.S. President Obama's abandonment of him.

“When I watched his speech in which he said he would step down, " Ben-Eliezer said on Wednesday about Mubarak, "it pained me to see his collapse. He stood by our side for 30 years, he was a strong leader, he kept proudly to Sadat’s commitments and followed in his path. He always emphasized the strategic importance of peace with Israel, and that this peace was the basis for stability in the Middle East.”

Presumably, if stability should be the aim in the Middle East then General Ben-Eliezer would have agreed with General Marshall that Israel ought not be recognized.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 4, 2011 7:37 AM