With a Friend Like Bush, Israel . . .

{As I read the Israeli newspaper responses to Bush's speech to the Knesset, I would venture the observation that he has set off a near panic among Israelis with his high praise of Israel combined with threats against Iran and American Democrats. It does not take much imagination to see that praise and encouragement to attack one's neighbors from one of the world's least popular national leaders is no feather in one's national cap. This is a delicate time in Israel's history. Its political leaders in too many instances have become suspect as common crooks. It is a nation divided between wanting peace and those demanding the Eretz Israel that Bush suggested is Israel's due -- I wonder whether that goof was Bush's or some speech writer's? One could go on in this vein, but how depressing it all is. May we elect a better leadership than the current one that can think only of guns and cares little for the increasing price of butter. Ed Kent]

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The President Goes Negative
It is damaging for America when President Bush's penchant for slash-and-burn politics is put on display abroad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/opinion/17sat2.html?th&emc=thwITHA
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