Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is out on the stump<\/a>:<\/p>\n “Iran is serious about its threats,” former US Senator John Edwards has told an audience in Israel.<\/p>\n “The challenges in your own backyard \u00e2\u20ac\u201c represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel,” the candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination told the Herzliya Conference, referring mainly to the Iranian threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don’t know about New Hampshire<\/a>, but I’d say Edwards is off to a strong start in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n In his speech, Edwards criticised the United States’ previous indifference to the Iranian issue, saying they have not done enough to deal with the threat.<\/p>\n Hinting to possible military action, Edwards stressed that “in order to ensure Iran never gets nuclear weapons, all options must remain on table.”<\/p>\n On the recent UN Security Council’s resolution against Iran, Edwards said more serious political and economic steps should be taken. “Iran must know that the world won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t back down,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Take that, Dubya.<\/p>\n After opening his speech with great praise for Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Edward’s continued to express great appreciation for the Israeli people and the special bond between the two countries, saying it was “a bond that will never be broken.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sure, Ariel Sharon is the greatest \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he’ll always have a place in our hearts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but Edwards needs to get hip, reach out for that youth vote. There’s a new badass<\/a> to kiss in the Knesset.<\/p>\n In a further display of support for Israel, Edwards went so far as to suggest that Israel should even be made a member of NATO, saying it was only natural that the organization would seen [sic] to include Israel next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sure. And when are we going to do something about Israel’s exclusion from the Arab League<\/a>? The Organization of American States<\/a>? The United Federation of Planets<\/a>? When, dammit, when<\/em> is an American president finally going to get to work on these vital matters?<\/p>\n