{"id":399,"date":"2006-07-24T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/richardson-backs-israel-on-larry-king-live\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T18:21:00","slug":"richardson-backs-israel-on-larry-king-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/richardson-backs-israel-on-larry-king-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson backs Israel on Larry King Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. Bill Richardson unabashedly backed <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> in its latest conflict with Hezbollah during a <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0607\/22\/lkl.01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Larry King Live<\/a> interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He joins the Congress and White House in blaming the terrorist organization for the latest conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201c\u2026 we all want <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> to defend itself. We back her. She has been right,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told King. \u201c\u2026<st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> here is not to blame. <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> has to defend itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> said he was glad that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the <st1:place st=\"on\">Middle  East<\/st1:place>, but wishes she had gone sooner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He urged Rice to pressure <st1:place st=\"on\">Europe<\/st1:place> to take action against Hezbollah\u2019s operations there. He suggested she boost the Lebanese government with a visit, which Rice is doing today. And he urged the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region> to \u201creaffirm our strong support for <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, find out more about the humanitarian situation there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> made no mention of the humanitarian crisis in <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Lebanon<\/st1:country-region> created by the fighting between <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The governor noted that, though he believes the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region> should back <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region>, the current incursion into <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Lebanon<\/st1:country-region> will \u201cfuel more Arab anger at <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region>,\u201d and the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United  States<\/st1:country-region> must work to keep <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Iran<\/st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Syria<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> out of the conflict, or risk a larger war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He said a permanent Middle East envoy from the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> would help keep those nations out of the conflict, and an international peacekeeping force made up of Muslims from European nations could calm the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In speaking later about the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">United  States<\/st1:country-region>\u2019 support for <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region>, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> cautioned that there\u2019s a delicate balance between backing that nation and keeping the peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Middle East \u201chas enormous political interest, energy interests to us,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want instability, and you don\u2019t want the Israeli people and the Arab people to continue these killings.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson unabashedly backed Israel in its latest conflict with Hezbollah during a Larry King Live interview on Saturday. He joins the Congress and White House in blaming the terrorist organization for the latest conflict. \u201c\u2026 we all want Israel to defend itself. We back her. She has been right,\u201d Richardson told King. \u201c\u2026Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}