Israelis have a better understanding of the limits of appeasement

Daniel Hannon:

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In all the acres of coverage devoted to Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress, and its impact on the Israeli election, one question went unasked. Why did he choose to make the speech in America, which is beyond the reach of the Iranian missiles against which he was warning, rather than in Europe, whose cities might be vulnerable?
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America's democratic sympathies can lead it into error, as during the second war against Saddam; but these are errors of exuberance. Europeans, by contrast, have spent the better part of two decades trying to jolly the ayatollahs out of their nuclear ambitions through "constructive engagement." Israeli voters can see where that approach has ended up. They, at any rate, understand the limits of appeasement.

In between he explains why Europe is willing to do business with despots in hopes that they will be the last one attacked.  Israel and the US to some extent understand the hatred much better.  This is where Obama makes a mistake by emulating the Euros.