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.
...Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing (with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them) conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
He didn't warn against all, he warned against permanent alliances that bring in undue influence. He also encouraged trade alliances, but most importantly, he encouraged alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
“We were hoping to elect someone who still believed in limited gov’t?
BTW I disagree vehemently with Paul on Israel.”
I agree that we need limited government. Absolutely. However, our security and the security of the entire world is facing an extremely dangerous threat from Islamic extremists/terrorists. The way he wants to deal with those threats is reason enough to NOT have supported him.
What good is limited government if our nation is destroyed in the meantime because of people like Paul.
Who is Ron Paul?
Go home RP, and your not getting your ball back. Punk.
Its a straw man argument paul supporters use... basically, accusing anyone who doesn’t follow him not wanting limited government. There are a lot of people who preach limited government whom I wouldn’t want leading this country if they where the last person on earth (Pat Buchanan, David Duke, etc)...
A foreign policy that smells as fishy Mrs. Paul and the personality of Ru Paul...
Vote Ron Paul in 2048!
(when I’m long dead)
Seriously, didn’t this supposed constitution lover favor the asinine Fair-Tax?
I did not feel as if I was being accused of not wanting limited government, but I do agree that to use “limited government” as a good reason to support Ron Paul is a straw man argument. Being right on that issue does not trump national security.
Ron Paul never seemed quite right to me from a mental standpoint. This proves that my instincts about him where spot on.
But from someone who gladly accepts support from Jewhaters and ni*ggerhaters, this isn't surprising at all.
No, noninterference in the sovereign affairs of other nations WAS his policy. This is in accordance to the Law of Nations as enumerated in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 of the US Constitution.
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He didn't warn against all, he warned against permanent alliances that bring in undue influence. He also encouraged trade alliances, but most importantly, he encouraged alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
While Washington gave a caveat for temporary alliances due to an emergency, he made his feelings on the matter quite plain:
constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that, by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Makes me proud to be an American. At least in this case my tax money is going to something worthwhile.
See that’s why I can never support Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is an idiot and needs to shut up.
F*** ron paul!
LLS
Ron Paul can you know what
So much for Ron Paul......................
Statement on H Res 34, Recognizing Israel’s right
to defend itself against attacks from Gaza..(BARF)
Ron Paul District 14 — Texas ^ | 9 Jan 08 | Ron Paul
Posted on 01/11/2009 9:32:20 PM PST by I got the rope
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2162987/posts
> I urge my colleagues to reject this resolution.
The Biggest Lies About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
North Star Writers Group | January 9, 2008 | Rachel Marsden
Posted on 01/09/2009 4:45:59 AM PST by Invisigoth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2161492/posts
[snip] Congressman and former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, suggested to Press TV — the official propaganda arm of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — that Israel’s actions were “preemptive”... a war isn’t automatically “preemptive” just because one party was dumb enough to pick a fight it can’t win... It also isn’t the first time Rep. Paul has lamented the lack of nuclear power in other Middle Eastern countries. In early 2007, on Fox News, Rep. Paul told me that he didn’t have a problem with Iran possessing nukes. [end]
Opportunities for Peace and Nonintervention [Ron Paul]
House.gov - Texas Straight Talk | 2009-01-05 | U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx., 14th District)
Posted on 01/05/2009 9:27:52 AM PST by rabscuttle385
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159048/posts
Ron Paul: Israel had US OK for war on Gaza (Ron Paul sides with Hamas)
Press TV | 1/5/09
Posted on 01/05/2009 11:50:56 AM PST by LdSentinal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159131/posts
A lot of extended families have these loveable elderly relatives who don’t have all their grits on their plate. They embarrass us sometimes, but they’re still one of our own.
Ron Paul needs to find a nice rocking chair and spare the American public his wild fantasies.
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