Paul: My policy benefits Israel

JTA ^ | 11/8/2007 | staff

[George W. Bush]

Paul: My policy benefits Israel

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul says his foreign policy would benefit Israel.

Mainstream Jewish groups have shunned Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas upsetting his party's presidential field. His lonely anti-war candidacy, once thought of as a long shot, is now competitive with front-runners in fund raising.

Paul has long opposed defense and other assistance to Israel, a policy consistent with his opposition to all foreign aid. He also has said the pro-Israel lobby is too influential in Washington, another statement that is consistent with his disdain for foreign policy lobbying.

In a statement released Wednesday to JTA, the Paul campaign cast those beliefs in a pro-Israel light. It reads, in part:

"I do believe that our current policies toward Israel are doing more harm than good to those we profess to support. 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."

Paul said, "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."

He adds later, "The United States should take care of its own sovereignty while at the same time respecting the sovereignty of nations like Israel. That is the best way to preserve security and prosperity for all."

[George W. Bush]

JTA is a global news service covering items of interest to Jewish people around the world. They provide a great deal of coverage that often goes unnoticed in mainstream libmedia reporting.

I thought the article was interesting in that it conveys Ron Paul's message about the bad effects of our foreign policy to its "beneficiaries".

Naturally, Ron Paul opposes all foreign aid, not just aid to Israel. President Paul would not fund or arm Palistinians. He would not twist Israel's arm behind their backs to make another disastrous compromise of their own security and sovereignty for the sake of the so-called Palestinians. And he would try to cut off foreign aid around the world including the bogus "AIDS" crisis in Africa.

These supposed "compassionate" programs we sponsor are often a thin veneer for corporate welfare, for guaranteed sales for the military-industrial complex. As with "compassionate" food aid which rarely reaches the poor and starving, these programs are about control and about subsidies for U.S. interests, not the interests of those for whom we are supposedly so "compassionate".

[George W. Bush]

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[OKIEDOC]

Mark cut this guy up bad on his radio show yesterday.

[Sloth]

Paul said, "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."

This is absolutely true.

[George W. Bush]

Mark who? Has he ever been elected to anything? Was he or his audience ever going to vote for Ron Paul to begin with?

So the obese bibber can huff and puff all he wants. We're not after his listeners anyway. Me, I greatly prefer Rush or Laura Ingraham who don't feel that having some puny radio show entitles them to tell me how to vote. Of course, if you're a cult member of one of these shows, I apologize if my opinions offend you. Wait, no, I guess I don't regret offending you after all.

If you want a picture of how Ron Paul could secure the nomination and win the White House, examine the results of Dr. Braun's win in Georgia's Tenth earlier this year. Braun, a self-described Ron Paul-style conservative and constitutionalist, beat the establishment favorite who was miles ahead of him in fundraising, party support, endorsements, etc. Robert Novak said the result of this eletion, the only midterm congressional election in '07, terrified D.C. Republicans.

[George W. Bush]

I've said the same for years. We need to butt out of Israel's political and foreign policy.

The Palis are determined to make Israel's life miserable and, if possible, to participate in a genocide of Jews. Their leadership and all the other Arab leaders who wail about them constantly don't do hardly anything to actually support them, despite all the oil wealth in the region. Like Saddam or the Saudis, they only give money to Palis who suicide-bomb a bunch of Israeli women and children on a bus or something.

We need to let Israel deal with the Pali problem, once and for all. Continuing to participate in a process guaranteed to bring generations of misery to all concerned, Israeli and Pali, is not a proper policy for us.

[mnehring]

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GeorgeW, don’t you know you should give a courtesy ping to Freepers you insult?

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping of interest.

[ksen]

Bumpmark.

[George W. Bush]

GeorgeW, don’t you know you should give a courtesy ping to Freepers you insult?

If holdonnow is Levin, I didn't know it. He's welcome to comment.

Maybe he'd like to comment about how he is using the public airwaves repeatedly to harass the offices of a congressman for his own pure petty spite.

I'll continue to file complaints with the FCC, BTW. They keep calling me back, I keep complaining.

Reputable hosts like Rush and Laura don't use their programs for harassment campaigns against public officials. Note: I make exception for all the radio hosts who urged us to ring the phones off the hook at the Capitol over the Shamnesty because that was a matter of public policy that was before the Senate. Levin's campaign against Ron Paul is simple and pure harassment of his congressional office which has no involvement in his presidential campaign.

Levin is another Fox News kind of media figure: "I report, I decide who you can vote for because you're too stupid to decide for yourself, you morons."

Give him a little time and Levin, just like Hannity, will be saying nasty things about FreeRepublic. Rush and Laura are our only real FRiends and all the rest just use FR as a springboard until they can discard us and ridicule us and start their own forums.

Hannity bashes Free Republic (February 2005)

[George W. Bush]

Ping of interest.

Although you didn't see it on the visible portion of my pinglist, I did ping both SJackson and Alouette, FR's leading posters of Jewish and Israeli articles, so they could comment or dispute the source if they find it questionable.

I'm not trying to sneak one past anybody here. I thought that after all the libelous posts at FR against Ron Paul on this topic, that an article which accurately reports Ron Paul's positions on Israel and addressed specifically to a Jewish audience, was worth a thread of its own for our own reading and for our archive.

[rod1]

Is that before or after Israel would cease to exist??

[Orange1998]

"The United States should take care of its own sovereignty while at the same time respecting the sovereignty of nations like Israel. That is the best way to preserve security and prosperity for all."

Truer words never spoken. We giving away part of America to Mexico while fighting wars around the World. The border fence will be 2 miles inward from the river. Basically we are giving up 2 miles of territory to Mexico for nothing. Americans have died for this land.

[Dead Corpse]

Well, he's right. It was the US that urged the Gaza pull out. It was the US that continually works to keep Israel from attacking those attacking it.

Sell 'em all the guns they can afford and get out of their way.

Sounds reasonable...

[George W. Bush]

Is that before or after Israel would cease to exist??

We are talking about the same Israel with what is probably the finest military force in the world, man for man, and has 200-300 nukes including neutron bombs and can deliver via plane, missile, or sub-launced cruise missiles?

You'd do better, if you really are concerned for Israel, to focus on the rapidly advancing Saudi nuclear weapons program which is using the Paki technicians from the Paki nuke program which the Saudis financed and the incredibly dangerous sale of $30 billion in advanced weaponry to the Saudis who are the real fundamentalist Islamic threat in the region and around the world.

The key matter here that no one wants to mention no matter how obvious it is: "It's the Saudis, stupid."

If we get nuked or Israel gets nuked, it's far more likely to be from our great allies, the Saudis or the Pakis. Not Iran.

[Puddleglum]

Paul said, "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."

Hence we call off Israel's dogs when they are attacked, for fear of offending the Arab countries to which we are beholden. It's a crazy tightrope walk of currying favor the USA plays in the ME.

[traviskicks]

This is actually the best article I've seen on the subject:

An Open Letter to the Jewish Community in Behalf of Ron Paul Walter Block

[Moose4]

He’s got a point. We should be selling Israel weapons (not giving them to them with strings attached) and not sending one damn dime to the Palestinians. Then back off and let Israel take care of their own security concerns, starting with reoccupying Gaza and moving on from there as needed.

I have no problem with us selling military hardware to Israel, because of what they’re surrounded by. I do have a problem with us simultaneously supplying Israel’s enemies with aid, AND then trying to leash Israel from responding to provocations against it.

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[KDD]

The 1978 Camp David agreements resulted in the United States committing to several billion dollars worth of annual subsidies to the governments of both Israel and Egypt, subsidies which continue to this day, and are given as a mixture of grants and aid packages committed to purchasing U.S. materiel.

From 1979 (the year of the peace agreement) to 1997, Egypt received $1.3 billion annually, which also helped modernize the Egyptian military, turning it into the largest in the Middle East. Soviet-supplied until 1979, Egypt now received American weaponry such as the M1A1 Abrams Tank, AH-64 Apache gunship and the F-16 fighter jet. In comparison, Israel has received $3 billion annually since 1985 in grants and military aid packages.

Read A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, the second leading towards the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed in March, 1979. The agreements and the peace treaty were both accompanied by “side-letters” of understanding between Egypt and the U.S. and Israel and the U.S.

It is possible that these payments to these countries are part of that treaty...if so Dr. Paul would be obligated to continue the payments.

[KDD]

You can thank Carter for that. We had to help Egypt maintain a strong military...especially since by making the peace with Israel, the Islamic world considered Egypt to be a traitor to Islam, and bought and paid for by the Great Satan, Anwar Sadat was assasinated because of it. Sadat was assassinated during the annual 6th October victory parade in Cairo. A fatwā approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the U.S. for his role in the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Sadat was protected by four layers of security and the army parade should have been safe due to ammunition-seizure rules. However, the officers in charge of that procedure were on hajj to Mecca.