Large-scale, organized violence becomes permissible and sometimes necessary under totalitarian rule, justified by the overriding commitment to the state ideology and pursuit of the state's goal.
"People understand the president's commitment to the state of Israel," said Representative Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat who is outspoken on the question of Israel.
The first lady, Mr. Lazio said here, "has no record, no commitment to the state, and has no real rationale for representing us in the state".
Large-scale organized violence becomes permissible and sometimes necessary under totalitarian rule, justified by the overriding commitment to the state ideology and pursuit of the state's goal.
And through it all, the United States, whether we agreed or disagreed with a specific policy, has been unflagging in its commitment to the state of Israel.
It is as much a challenge to the left, and our commitment to the state and centralisation, as it is to the right with its unquestioning embrace of the market.
At a news conference, the governor said the senators should solve the problem by calling the president and the education secretary, and he questioned their commitment to the state's well-being.
To balance the pressure he placed on the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama reiterated the traditional US commitment to the state of Israel and told supporters of an independent Palestinian state to "stop trying to tear Israel down".
