Palin to Isreal: Why are you apologizing all the time?

After speaking in India at the India Today Conclave, Sarah Palin traveled to Israel for a two day trip. Palin took in the sights and had a private dinner with Netanyahu and his wife. While visiting the Western Wall and upon learning that Jews cannot openly pray at the Temple Mount, Sarah asked a simple, yet profound question to her Jewish guides; "Why are you apologizing all the time?”

Will Jacobson from Legal Insurrection perfectly details just how profound Sarah's question is. I think the question is a great precursor to the really big question Israel must ask for itself and that is "what exactly has bending over backwards to the Palestinians bought for Israel"? It certainly isn't peace.

Clearly a Palin presidency will bring a brand new dimension to the Middle East peace problem. Perhaps a new perspective is exactly what is needed to finally solve the problem.

You can read more about Palin's visit to Israel here, and here. View video at Nice Deb and see more pictures at CBS News.

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Sarah Palin to visit Israel

On her way home from her speech in India, Sarah Palin will make a two day stop in Israel and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Hill: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will make a two-day visit to Israel this weekend, according to multiple media reports Thursday.

During her visit, the potential 2012 presidential candidate will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour holy sites such as the Western Wall and the city of Nazareth. Palin is expected to arrive in the Jewish state late Sunday with her husband Todd and stay until Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reported.

The trip, her first to Israel, will give the 2008 vice presidential nominee a chance to burnish her foreign policy credentials and demonstrate her support for Israel, the United States's top ally in the region. [MORE]

This is an obvious trip for Palin. She has always been a strong supporter of Israel. As governor before being picked as VP, Palin had an Israeli flag in her office.

Like her visit to India, this trip too is another sign that she is going to run (especially since she is meeting with Netanyahu). Choosing India the world's largest democracy and Israel the Middle East's only democracy suggests to me that a President Palin would have a pro-democracy foreign policy. That would be a welcome change from the very confusing, ineffective and weak foreign policy we are currently stuck with.

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Video: Netanyahu Defends Israel In Flotilla Incident

Netanyahu really brings his point home at the 6:46 mark. 

The Last Tradition: Benjamin Netanyahu courageously defends his nation against a world who has lost their sense of moral clarity! 

Israel has the right to exist and defend herself against aggression and millions of right thinking Americans stand with her, always.  

My friend Sam, nail this.  Netanyahu offers some much needed common sense to this whole flotilla incident. There was a well know blockade in place. No one can argue that Israel has more than enough reasons to be cautious about any cargo entering Gaza, no matter what the stated cause is. With a blockage in place and Israel under constant treat, shouldn’t any sane person expect, Israel to defend themselves by enforcing the blockage? So why are so many in the media acting like Israel’s boarding of the Turkish ship is such an aggressive act?

Sarah Palin seems to asking the same question. 

The Weekly Standard: The media, as usual, seems to be reporting only one side of the Israeli Flotilla incident. Don't trust the mainstream media to give you both sides of a story fairly... you must seek out fair reporting to ensure you have all the information. 

As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective.  This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the liberal mainstream media keeps reporting.  The whole operation was designed to provoke Israel, not to provide supplies to Palestinians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.  Anyone who sees the video of Israeli commandos being attacked as they land on that ship knows the people aboard were vicious thugs, not “peace activists.” The media insults our intelligence with their outright mischaracterization of who these enemies are.  [MORE] 

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