[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon and Tovah Lazaroff - Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, addressing the Herzliya Conference by video, said, "Israel is facing the greatest danger for its survival since the 1967 victory....Three nuclear weapons is a second Holocaust." "We have enemies who are quite explicit in their desire to destroy us. They say it publicly, on television, on Web sites. We are sleepwalking through this as though it is all a problem of communications," he said. Asked about the Palestinian issue, Gingrich said the West needed to discriminate between "people who are willing to live with us, and people unwilling to live with us." He said there was "no elegant way to say to Hamas, 'why don't we meet and have a really long weekend together and learn how to be friends.' If someone says to you, 'I am determined that not a single Jew remain,' I think it is useful to take them at their word. And if the choice is your survival or their survival, I think you should pick you." Other U.S. political leaders addressing the conference included former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. John Edwards.
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