Being here creates an impact of its own and really gives a sense of the reality and what that means, what Israel means, what the people of Israel are like. |
He is at the height of his popularity right now. He's a person who, in these last number of years, as he became prime minister, at first was regarded as controversial but has established himself as a centrist figure with an enormous following. |
This has nothing to do with the core issues of the controversy surrounding the governor's commission, and focusing on it in this way distracts from what that is really all about. |