Shane Mage wrote:
> Or NYTimes liberals. Today they had an editorial uncharacteristically
> boorish (referring to Ron Paul M.D. as "Mr." Paul when the decent standard
> is "Dr." Paul) and illiterate ("he has failed to convincingly repudiate").
> Amid their fuming they advert tangentially to the real reason for their
> denunciation: his "claptrap" includes opposition to "foreign aid," which
> every reader of Zionist outlets like the NR and the NYTimes will recognize
> as the only unforgivable sin.
what is Paul's official position on Israel?
according to the Wikipedia:
> Paul argues that if the United States cares about Israel, the U.S. should
> allow them to be more independent. He states that "the surrounding Arab
> nations get seven times as much aid as Israel gets [???] and also a recent
> study came out that showed that for every dollar you give to an Arab nation
> it prompts Israel to spend 1.4 dollars." Paul would not stop Israel from
> defending its interests in any way it saw fit.
>> Our foreign military aid to Israel is actually more like corporate
>> welfare to the U.S. military industrial complex, as Israel is forced to
>> purchase only U.S. products with the assistance. We send almost twice as
>> much aid to other countries in the Middle East, which only insures increased
>> militarization and the drive toward war.
>> We have adopted a foreign policy that has left Israel surrounded by
>> militaristic nations while undermining Israel's sovereignty by demanding
>> that its foreign and defense policies be essentially pre-approved in
>> Washington. That is a bad deal for Israel, as sovereign nations must
>> determine on their own what is a most appropriate national defense. On
>> foreign policy as well, the U.S. steps in to prevent Israel from engaging in
>> dialogue with nations of which the U.S. administration disapproves.<<
> Paul was in Congress when Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant in 1981
> and—unlike the United Nations and the Reagan administration—defended its
> right to do so. He says Saudi Arabia has an influence on Washington equal to
> Israel's. He votes against support for Israel due to his opposition to
> foreign aid by the US in general.
> In an interview with Don Imus, Paul was asked for his view of the Gaza
> flotilla raid. He responded, "...I think it's absolutely wrong to prevent
> people that are starving and having problems, that are almost like in
> concentration camps, and saying yes we endorse this whole concept that we
> can't allow ships to go in there in a humanitarian way..." Imus remarked,
> "They are allowing humanitarian aid in... what they're concerned about is
> weapons falling into the hands of Hamas..." Paul responded, "Well, they're an
> elected government, I mean Hamas; We have thousands of our soldiers dying to
> say that we want elections and we want democracy, so we finally get one in
> Palestine, and they elect Hamas, and then all of a sudden whoa you've elected
> the wrong people..."
> At the ABC News Iowa Republican Debate, Paul was asked if he agreed with Newt
> Gingrich's "characterization, that the Palestinians are an invented people."
> Paul responded, "N-- no, I don't agree with that. And that's just stirrin' up
> trouble. And I-- I believe in a non-interventionist foreign policy. I don't
> think we should get in the middle of these squabbles. But to go out of our
> way and say that so-and-so is not a real people? Technically and
> historically, yes-- you know, under the Ottoman Empire, the Palestinians
> didn't have a state, but neither did Israel have a state then too."<
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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