Commentary  In one of our frequent conversations over wide-ranging issues, we asked how the present, or future, Israeli ambassador to the United States and the United Nations might address an audience in the context of the recent events in Israel. We imagined that we were tasked to draft such a speech. Here, then, is the draft of a speech we would like to hear, given by the Israeli ambassador. My job is to represent the State of Israel as Ambassador to the United States and Ambassador to the United Nations. To the citizens of the United States of America among whom I now live and work, I say to you that the recent attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas is in their own words a “Jihad,” or medieval holy religious war sanctioned by their religious authorities. According to this world view, there is no room for an independent …