Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has criticised the problems of foreign policy – which are people looking for “immediate solutions” at the expense of “realistic solutions”.
“It makes Israel safer by not allowing the governing party in that region to actually be fomenting the violence, providing weaponry, providing education to small children that reinforces all of the Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism that has been reinforced in these areas,” Mr Shapiro told Sky News host Piers Morgan.
“This is not something that can happen overnight.
“One of the big problems in foreign policy is very often that people are looking for the immediate solution at the expense of the realistic solution – and the realistic solution in an area of the world where conflicts go thousands of years deep is not something that’s going to happen next week – it’s going to have to actually require a heavy rebuilding, heavy monetary investment.
“But monetary investment not via groups that are linked to terror and sponsor terror and foment terror, but links to groups that actually are going to promote quiescence, that are actually going to promote moderation, that are actually going to promote a future in this region of the world where both parties can co-exist.”