Editing Alejandro Toledo (section)

=== Friends of Israel Initiative ===
In 2010, Toledo joined the Spanish Prime Minister [[José María Aznar]], Northern Irish [[Ulster Unionist Party|Unionist]] politician [[David Trimble]], Italian philosopher [[Marcello Pera]], former United States Ambassador to the United Nations [[John R. Bolton|John Bolton]], British historian [[Andrew Roberts (historian)|Andrew Roberts]], and others in forming the [[Friends of Israel Initiative]]. The project's aim is to counter efforts to delegitimize the [[Israel|State of Israel]] and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders. The initiative consists of non-Jewish members who want Israel to continue to be accepted as part of the western world and who recognize it as a full-fledged democracy with the right to defend itself.<ref name="friendsofisraelinitiative">{{cite web|url=http://www.friendsofisraelinitiative.org/about-wellcome.php|title=Friends of Israel|publisher=friendsofisraelinitiative.org|access-date=16 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010040857/http://www.friendsofisraelinitiative.org/about-wellcome.php|archive-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

In a 2011 article entitled "How Not to have a Palestinian State," Toledo and his co-writers argued that Obama's call for a return to talks based on the pre-1967 boundaries is a "clumsily concealed delegitimization device,"<ref name="friendsofisraelinitiative1">Members of the Friends of Israel Initiative, "How not to have a Palestinian State," ''The Jerusalem Post'', 14 July 2011, {{cite web |url=http://friendsofisraelinitiative.org/article.php?pagina=3&c=87 |title=Friends of Israel |access-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317061343/http://friendsofisraelinitiative.org/article.php?pagina=3&c=87 |archive-date=17 March 2012 }}</ref> as Palestine does not meet the internal and external requirements to become a state. The only way forward, the argued, is not unilateral action by the UN General assembly but a bilateral agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis, in which each party agrees to recognize the other as a legitimate state.<ref name="friendsofisraelinitiative1"/>