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From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Richard cohen is here. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for the washington post. You sparked a controversy in 2006 when he opened his column with this sentence the greatest mistake that congress would could make at the moment is to forget that israel is a state. His book is called israel sit good for the jews. Im proud to have Richard Cohen here. Hes a friend of mine and im proud of that. Tell me about that 2006 column and what happened after. I wrote it in the course israel was once again with war, this time with hezbollah in the north and you could see this pattern going back and forth, back and forth. Incessant war and incessant terrorism. I used the word mistake but i couldnt come up with another word to describe the plight of israel as being a nation of six million jews surrounded by, i dont know, 100 million arabs, whatever the figure may be and there continuing ....