Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was bashed for extolling strength and deploring weakness. The ongoing slaughter in Syria illustrates the wisdom of his sentiment.
“One of the things we could not compromise on was the principle of having a linkage between a ceasefire and a hostage release,” Robert Wood told “CNN.”
Rabbi Yossie Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Tucson, stated: “We are determined not to be affected by this distressing incident and will continue serving the wider community.”
In a video on Maan News Agency’s YouTube channel on Jan. 16, Palestinian journalist Dr. Nasser Al-Laham said Israel has become so arrogant that one day someone angry will drop a nuclear bomb on it, and there will be nobody left to say “Boker tov” (“Good morning” in Hebrew).
“The people of Iran should stand united in the face of this, and they will deliver a strong punch to the mouth of the American Secretary of State and anyone who backs them,” said Ismail Kowsari.
“It really goes to show how colossally poor of a decision it was for Democratic leadership to put someone on the House Foreign Affairs Committee whose animus towards Jews and Israel so clouds her judgement that she can’t recognize that Israel is not only a democracy, but the only one in the Middle East,” said RJC spokesperson Neil Strauss.