On Israel

The biggest threat to Israel's future peace and security is not Iran or Hamas, but the AIPAC-(the America Israel Public Affairs Committee) sponsored policy, which encourages a policy of Israeli territorial expansion by military conquest. This policy is unnecessary for Israel's peace and prosperity and puts Israel in clear violation of international law and prohibits it from interacting with the international community in a healthy way. It also condemns Israel to a perpetual state of emergency and vigilance.

The settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be imposed unilaterally by Israel. Unilateral actions will only perpetuate the conflict. Rather, the solution must negotiated and should center on Israel's withdrawal from territories it occupied in 1967 in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolution 242 and the establishment of a truly sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, unless the legitimately elected leaders of both sides agree on a different formula. Hamas now explicitly accepts such a two-state solution, and has shown flexibility on this issue since its election despite its portrayal in the mainstream press.

As an affluent and militarily powerful country, Israel should not be the recipient of American foreign aid; rather, it should be America's partner in providing the advanced solar energy technologies that it has successfully developed to impoverished developing countries. This would go a long way in earning Israel good will and gaining it the respected place in the international community that its people deserve.