Bush's speech to The Knesset was excellent.  Would that his policies better reflected the words he uttered, and the sentiments that those words are meant to reflect. But his policies don't, and unfortunately, he has by now become, in much of the world, both fairly (and often unfairly) a dismissable figure of fun.

So imagine someone else saying these words or rather, expressing the same support, the same admiration, but in different words, indeed expressing an even stronger support and admiration, and a dismissal, that Bush did not make, of all the false claims -- historical, legal, and moral, trumped up and repeated so  often that even some who should know better, should not have forgotten what they once knew,  no longer do, and so like the callow ignorant young will have to learn (in some cases, re-learn) the history of Israel, and of its enemies, learning the simplest demographic and cadastral facts, in order to recover attitudes that have been lost under the steady onslaught that the BBC, for example, gives evidence of every day in every way.

Take something like or much better than these words, your own variant depending on whom you are imagining standing in Bush's stead. Take Winston Churchill, or Jacques Ellul, or Eric Hoffer, or Raymond Aron, or Indro Montanelli, or Magdi Allam, or Andrey Sakharov, or Henry Jackson, Oriana Fallaci, or Malcolm Hay, or Pierre van Paassen, or, for that matter (and for this one),  Jorge Luis Borges or Vladimir Nabokov. 

That's a baker's dozen. There are plenty more at a similar level: Dmitri Likhachev. Alain Besancon. Conor Cruise O'Brien. Would you like to be inside that bakery, or would you like to remain standing outside, your mind full of misinformation, your face contorted with viciousness and hate, with Robert Fisk and George Galloway, Noam Chomsky and Pat Buchanan, Ward Churchill and David Duke, Louis Farrakhan and Jean-Marie Le Pen. If you would like inwardly to listen to that still small voice that suggests there is yet another way, a via media, an "on-the-one-hand-this-on-the-other-hand-that" way, tell that still small voice that in this case -- not always, but because of all that has happened, all that is certain to happen because of the promptings of Islam -- that still small seemingly sweet-reasonable little voice that always finds, in the end, that everyone has a point, is quite wrong. There isn't a third way. It's all, or nothing at all.