Posted on 01/12/2009 2:10:47 PM PST by mnehring
Republican congressman Ron Paul says the US is aiding and abetting Israel in Gaza through its financial and military support for Tel Aviv.
"The weapons being used to kill so many Palestinians are American weapons, and American funds, essentially, are being used for this," said the congressman Friday.
Israel launched an all-out war against the Gaza Strip and its democratically-elected ruler, the Hamas movement, to put an end to rocket attacks against southern Israel.
At least 821 Palestinians have been killed during the operation and some 3,330 others are reported wounded. At least 10 Israeli troops have been killed during the offensive so far.
Hamas demands a cessation to an 18-month Israeli blockade on Gaza before its fighters stop rocket attacks against Israel.
Congressman Paul criticized Washington for its indirect intervention in the affairs of other countries.
"There's a political liability, which I think is something that we fail to look at, because too often there's so much blowback from our intervention in areas that we shouldn't be involved in," he said.
Paul also expressed his opposition to a House resolution that strongly supported Israel in its Gaza invasion. "I rise in opposition to this resolution, not because I am taking sides and picking who the bad guys are and who the good guys are."
"I'm looking at this more from the angle of being a United States citizen, an American, and I think resolutions like this really do us great harm," he added.
Earlier on Friday, House of Representative speaker Nancy Pelosi backed the Israel's military operations on Gaza, saying that "Israel, like any nation, has a right to self-defense when under attack".
"There's a lot of reasons why we should oppose this resolution. It is not in the interests of the United States. It's not in the interests of Israel, either," Paul concluded.
The fighting in Gaza has entered its third week despite a UN Security Council resolution which calls for an immediate end to the hostility in the densely-populated Gaza Strip.
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Shut up Ron...
Ron is such a little queer.
2 things are for sure...
The deaths in Gaza are greatly inflated, and Ron Paul is a jerk.
The part left out... How about them iranian rockets, Fadir?
Ugh, is this guy still yapping?
Damn it, Dr. Paul, don’t go pro-Pali on me.
It’s bad enough that Xena’s Guy is doing so.
Why does this wacko have to be from Texas? And to think many years ago I thought he would make a good president.
The more he opens his mouth, the less I like him.
He sounds just like Hamas and all their apologists.
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Wow - this guy came within 270 electoral votes of becoming President.
I thought that was Patty O’Buchanan’s script.
I didn’t commit the crime, but I’d be proud to plead guilty.
Abu Abdullah of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades of Hamas' military wing (Gaza, June 20, 2007).
"We have no worries about running out of weapons or ammunition
thanks to your American government."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to (have their citizens suffer and) repeat it."
George Santayana
Ron Paul would have been an asset to the Hitler regime. Did Obama offer him a job yet; obviously, another place he could put his anti-Semitic leanings to use.
Just more proof that morons can live seemingly normal lives without anyone knowing their wacked.
I think I see a pattern here..
Dr. Demento strikes again, doing his best impersonation of Cynthia McKinney and Jimmy Carter.
Ron Paul makes it clear that he is against the referendum because he is being intellectually consistent in being against all foreign entanglements even if they involve Israel.
We can disagree with him, but nothing he says is in anyway supportive of Hamas or a slur on Israel.
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