{"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":"

Gov. Bill Richardson unabashedly backed Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> in its latest conflict with Hezbollah during a Larry King Live<\/a> interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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He joins the Congress and White House in blaming the terrorist organization for the latest conflict.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 we all want Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> to defend itself. We back her. She has been right,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told King. \u201c\u2026Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> here is not to blame. Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> has to defend itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city> said he was glad that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East<\/st1:place>, but wishes she had gone sooner.<\/p>\n

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He urged Rice to pressure 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 United States<\/st1:country-region> to \u201creaffirm our strong support for Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, find out more about the humanitarian situation there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city> made no mention of the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon<\/st1:country-region> created by the fighting between Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

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The governor noted that, though he believes the United States<\/st1:country-region> should back Israel<\/st1:country-region>, the current incursion into Lebanon<\/st1:country-region> will \u201cfuel more Arab anger at Israel<\/st1:country-region>,\u201d and the United States<\/st1:country-region> must work to keep Iran<\/st1:country-region> and Syria<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> out of the conflict, or risk a larger war.<\/p>\n

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He said a permanent Middle East envoy from the 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

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In speaking later about the United States<\/st1:country-region>\u2019 support for Israel<\/st1:country-region>, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> cautioned that there\u2019s a delicate balance between backing that nation and keeping the peace.<\/p>\n

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The Middle East \u201chas enormous political interest, energy interests to us,\u201d 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":"

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 […]<\/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","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}