Friday, November 03, 2006
"In a meeting last week in New York, one of a series of meetings on planning the future of the Jewish people, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger took part. Kissinger had accepted an invitation from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the situation of the Jewish people. Last week's discussion centered on the Iranian threat to Israel. Participants agreed that one serious problem generated by the Iranian leadership's comments and Tehran's ability to ignore international pressure and continue its nuclear program is the resurrection of a debate within the Arab world about Israel's very existence. ""