Quote #24

The only people who can destroy Israel are the Jews. They are a stiff-necked people, very divisive. It's hard for them all to get along. There's this joke where the president of Israel is talking to the president of America, and he says, 'I know it's hard to be the president of a quarter of a billion people, but how would you like to be the president of five million presidents?'

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