Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take away life because he's the giver of life. And assassination stands against democracy, against civilization, against a civilized life of people. Alas, the situation in Lebanon is very chaotic and many innocent people lost their lives because they have a state within a state, an army within an army and the respect for life is not high enough.
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Since the United Nations was established in 1945, there has never been a head of state that is a U.N. member state that publicly called for the elimination of another U.N. member state.
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Gaza from now on is the problem of the Palestinians, not Israel, ... They have tens of thousands of security men with guns on the payroll. They must get organized one people, one voice, one gun.
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A revolution is needed in the thinking on the state budget. Investments must be made in the Negev, Galilee and Jerusalem in order to save them.
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