Thanks to EricK, I found the above video on the www.carolineglick.com web site under the title, GOD BLESS MICHELE BACHMANN!!!!!!!!!!

Since, I just became aware of this posting, you cannot think that I had anything to do with the response by Esteban on June 22 (even though a name translation would make our names similar).

By Esteban on June 22, 2011 6:24 PM

Leaving aside the amusing delivery, it’s certainly a very friendly speech. The point about caution vis a vis the Arab Spring movements is also well-taken.

One wonders, however, if Rep. Bachmann really understands the role of the United States in the US-Israel relationship. The US has always been at its best with a sober hand on Israel’s shoulder, restraining its ally’s basest urges, and at its worst as the enabler of an unsustainable Greater Israel vision.

The annexed West Bank would forever remain an albatross around the nation’s neck, dragging it down from the humanity of Judaism to something much darker and uglier, quite akin to South Africa. It would have less of a chance of being a real Jewish State, in the values sense, than if it were flooded with right-of-return refugees.

The best thing the US could do for Israel would be to help it become a normal country, within clear, legitimately recognised borders, without the burden of overlordship over another resentful nation. It saddens me that the EU can do so little toward that goal. No other mediator than a US president will be trusted on both sides, regrettably.

Without even having noticed this comment, I also made reference to South Africa in my response to EricK.