1) It wasn’t a comment for public consumption

2) There was, in reality, nothing controversial about what he said…just one charged word

3) What is said is absolutely no different from what at least two Israeli PMs have stated publicly

Conclusion: anyone here or elsewhere who is outraged by this is guilty of intellectual dishonesty. Those of us who love Israel, visit Israel and have loved ones in Israel are pretty fucking tired of the country and its conflicts being used as a political football by opportunists or, as we have here, outright trolls. Grow the fuck up already.