If Israel's need for sympathy is not not met to the point where it can be a recognized part of the family of nations and have normal trade relationships with its neighbors, Israel will have to 2=do what it takes to Be=protect its inferior territory in view of the overwhelming size of its enemies. To get the point across to its own population, its politicians have to 5=undertake to Cr=prepare their communication accordingly, for only if the Israeli people can remain upright have they got a chance to maintain their territorial integrity. 

Basically they need to express their gratitude, trustworthiness, distress and neediness at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, and that is why no politician can afford to promote giving up Israel's sovereignty over its holy place, for Israel's hard won integrity depends on its access to maintain the collective identity without which it gets dissolved in its own arguments and/or driven into the sea by a vast majority of aliens to its culture.

And that, understandable after the Holocaust, lead to its rational to rather go to war over this issue than to compromise. That is where President Bill Clinton's statement fits in: