at least before they did us the courtesy of trying to be
cagey about it. And now it's so out in the open, we've seen poll numbers showing that
American favorability toward Israel is at an all-time low. So you can imagine
what American favorability toward people who just lobby for Israel 24 hours a day must be.
They're really thinking that they're going to handle this by just denying everything.
There is no such thing as Israel first. You anti-Semites made that up. They're just
going to deny everything instead of saying, well, yeah, a lot of us have a deep and
profound abiding concern for Israel for personal reasons, but also for strategic
reasons that we think are shared by the United States. And let me list them for you.
Now, how often do you get that? I mean, Robert, you for a long time, as was I,
would be counted in Israel's corner. And when you had some misgivings that you started to
express, did anybody say to you, oh, Robert, listen, you've been such a wonderful ally,
the least we can do that we owe you as decent human beings is to just explain to you a little
bit better what the strategic value of Israel to the U.S. is. I would tend to think nobody.