(Newsday) Robert Satloff - No serious case can be made for counseling Israeli restraint based on the fear that "every U.S. embassy in the Middle East [would be] burned to the ground," as suggested by Sen. Joseph Biden. Since Iranians took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, attacks on our embassies in Arab and other Muslim countries have almost always been by small groups rather than wild mobs. Indeed, when gangs of angry, young men take to the streets in Arab countries, they are often acting with the acquiescence, consent, or even the encouragement of their governments.
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