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And it was a denunciatory letter. I was fit to be tied. And I was going to send a real zinger back to him, but it's just a few days before the St. Patrick's Day parade, and I know I'm going to be marching in that parade with him, and who needs the confrontation? And so on advice of my counsel -- David Brown, Who's now the state investigations chairman -- we decided not to respond by letter.

Ultimately, I cannot say he apologized, but he said that he wanted me to know he wasn't angry. This was months later. And I didn't want to get into a donneybrook with him, but I thought to myself; what a silly man, what a silly man. And it's clear that he does support terrorism. No question about it. He would say that “I (he) supported terrorism of the Jews in Israel.” He would say that he ran guns for them. But there is a difference.

Let me just tell you what the difference is, aside from the emotional response, and I don't put people down with respect to that. The people of Israel denounced the terrorist activities of their terrorists. They did not have the support of the people of Israel. Irgun and the Stern Gang did not have the support of the government of Israel. In fact, the government of Israel put the Irgun and the Stern Gang down very severely when they became the government and prior to that they were denunciatory of them. So there is a difference. They did not