"Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing," the president said.

I am not standing on the sidelines. I'm in favor of fierce criticism but I don't accept the notion of looking at this society from the outside and mocking this society for being militaristic. I am a Zionist. My whole point of view comes from Zionism....

With me, it is first of all a mental thing. I think it stems from the fact that I am very much bound up with being the daughter of Holocaust survivors. But from my point of view, Zionism today means social cohesion. It means solidarity. It means a moral country whose foundation is morality, not profitability. My struggle against the privatization of everything that moves, against the privatization of our lives, is in large measure a struggle to restore the country that is being eroded and annulled by the post-Zionists of capital. A state is not a business. It is not a grocery store. And therefore it cannot be managed like a grocery store - by holding on to what's profitable and discarding what isn't profitable. This is also the true lesson of the war: not a military lesson but a civil-social one. Because what emerged during the war is that there is no state; because of the wanton policy that was practiced here in recent years no state remains. Whole systems have degenerated or been crushed. What we have to do now is restore the state. We have to see to it that we have a moral, functioning state that treats its citizens responsibly.

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