Fred Thomspon War Hawk

Yes, all we need is a more militant Republican president. Fred Thompson is bomb happy just like Rudy is. Bomb Iran. Bomb the Palestinians. Bomb. Bomb. Bomb.

Moreover, in the past he has argued that the American embassy in Israel should be moved to Jerusalem, a city half of which under international law [U.N. Article 2253] has been illegally occupied for decades. That would really win the hearts and minds of the Arabs, wouldn't it?

Source: Israel Today

The former actor, who has also served as a US senator, bucked popular international sentiment by insisting in a hard-hitting editorial column that Israel has been almost too careful in its war on Palestinian terrorism.

“Israel is at war,” Thompson wrote for the conservative website Townhall.com. And the Jewish state has gone to “incredible lengths to stop the war against them without harming Palestinian non-combatants.”

Thompson is also on record as supporting an Israeli military strike against Iran should international diplomacy fail to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear arms.

More liberal political elements in Israel fear Thompson may be too far to the right, and therefore end up harming Israel. During his time as a senator, Thompson was one of the sponsors of the Jerusalem Embassy Act demanding that the US government move its embassy to the Israeli capital in defiance of Palestinian claims to the city.