Posted on 12/14/2011 6:39:27 AM PST by xzins
Ron Paul: Blame Israel First
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/13/ron-paul-not-anti-foreign-aid-anti-israel/2/
Posted by Daniel Greenfield on Dec 13th, 2011
Do you know who the latest Zionist on the block is? It’s the man who called Israel, “an aggressive, national socialist state” and suggested that the original World Trade Center bombing may have really been carried out by Israel.
Then there’s the solicitation letter which boasted that this courageous fellow was exposing the, “Bohemian Grove–perverted, pagan playground of the powerful. Skull & Bones: the demonic fraternity that includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress’s Mr. New Money. The Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica.”
So how is he a Zionist? Ask Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. According to him, Ron Paul is, “in one sense, a true Zionist, a believer in two core values of the Jewish liberation movement: Jewish independence and Jewish self-reliance.” The “sense” in which this is true is the sense in which the segregationists were really a black power movement who wanted black people to be independent and self-reliant.
This discussion began when the Republican Jewish Coalition failed to invite Ron Paul to their forum of leading presidential candidates. The RJC had not invited Paul back in 2007 either and there was no obvious reason for them to have done so this time around. A forum is not a debate and a Jewish group has no obligation to invite an anti-Israel candidate, just as a Catholic pro-life group has no obligation to invite Nancy Pelosi. Goldberg perpetuates the myth that the issue is Ron Paul’s opposition to foreign aid. That is not the issue. If it were the issue, Governor Perry, who said that “The foreign aid budget in my administration for every country is going to start at zero dollars,” would not have been invited either.
Foreign aid is not the issue. The actual issue is that Ron Paul’s views on Israel and Jews (as well as American foreign policy) are indistinguishable from those of Pat Buchanan.
Ron Paul isn’t simply against foreign aid; he believes that the Israeli lobby controls Washington and involves American in foreign wars… and that this was among the causes of September 11. Paul has described the original World Trade Center bombing as a “retaliation” and during the Republican debates in 2007 and 2011 blamed American foreign policy for Al-Qaeda’s attacks.
The Buchanan comparison is true in more ways than one. Ron Paul has insisted that we should have stayed out of WW2 and let Nazi Germany and the USSR fight it out, and that by entering the war Churchill only prolonged it. Clearly this was another expression of Ron Paul’s Zionism and his desire to promote “Jewish independence and Jewish self-reliance.”
Ron Paul supporters will clamor that the above material comes from the Ron Paul Survival Report, which according to the Paul campaign was supposedly written for years by some mysterious stranger pretending to be Ron Paul. This unknown stranger discussed his time in Congress, his medical career and his wife Carol all in the first person. That the media actually bought this ridiculous explanation, even while actual Republicans were lynched for much less than writing in support of David Duke, should tell you all you need to know about Paul’s cheerleaders in the mainstream media. But let’s skip over the “Report” for a moment.
In an interview with Iranian television, Ron Paul complained that the president had not said anything to Israel about its horrible massacre, compared Gaza to a concentration camp, and made it rather clear that he sympathized with the terrorists. It wasn’t some unknown mysterious stranger signing Paul’s name to hateful screeds. It was the man himself doing an interview with the agents of a murderous regime responsible for the murders of numerous Americans.
What about the following statement in the House of Representatives?
“Bin Laden’s claims are straightforward. The U.S. defiles Islam with military bases on holy land in Saudi Arabia, its initiation of war against Iraq, with 12 years of persistent bombing, and its dollars and weapons being used against the Palestinians as the Palestinian territory shrinks and Israel’s occupation expands. There will be no peace in the world for the next 50 years or longer if we refuse to believe why those who are attacking us do it.”
Ron Paul isn’t calling for impartiality or agitating for non-interventionism because he supports Jewish self-reliance, but because he believes that Israel is the source of our problems. He has made it clear over and over again that he blames Israel’s own war on terrorists for terrorism, just as he blames America’s war on terror for terrorism against America.
Paul’s hatred for the United States government has led him to make a common intellectual cause with Islamic terrorists. As far back as his Survival Report days, Paul had gotten in the habit of responding to Islamic violence with conspiracy theories. When Tehran was calling for Rushdie’s head on a plate, Paul wondered if “Some of the people hyping the Rushdie affair have other motives? For example to make Moslems look bad for geopolitical reasons?” (Ron Paul Survival Report – April 1989)
In January 2002, Paul wrote, “How can we forever fail to address the provocative nature of U.S. taxpayer money being used to suppress and kill Palestinians and ignore the affront to the Islamic people that our military presence on their holy land of Saudi Arabia causes.” In that same article he described the terrorists as “those who so passionately hate us that suicide becomes a just and noble cause in their effort to kill and terrorize us”.
In his book, “A Foreign Policy of Freedom,” Ron Paul insisted that, “all recent presidents have reiterated our obligation to bleed for Israel.” American soldiers have never bled for Israel, but language of this sort plays well with Paul’s base, and continues feeding the myth that America’s confrontation with Islamic terror is due to Israel, rather than Islam.
Occasionally Paul switches gears and points out that a cutoff in foreign aid would be good for Israel. That may well be the case. I believe that and so do quite a few people who support Israel. But this issue stands entirely apart from Paul’s larger “Blame Israel” worldview.
Ron Paul is not simply anti-foreign aid, he is anti-Israel. That is the country he has singled out for blame over and over again. And while he has every right to his opinion, conservative Jewish groups have a right not to give him a forum.
I just do not see how anyone can support this man.
He is a phoney constitutionalists, anti-Israel lunatic.
I had not realized that Ron Paul was in the anti-Israel camp alongside Pat Buchanen.
This is a necessary article to forward to anyone you know from Iowa.
Thanks
imho,
people who think that Ron Paul would be a savior from the globalists are . . . terminally ignorant.
It’s time for this fool to go!!
I agree about his misunderstanding of the Constitution, also. For example, he pretends that the constitution speaks only of “war” when it comes to offensive military action against other nations. It doesn’t. It speaks of considerable more like reprisals, operatives seizing ships (marque), of raising armies and navies, etc.
Have you noticed that Paul ALWAYS seems hesitant and shakey? This isn’t just age, either, because it’s been the same for years and years.
I don’t trust the man.
put this article on email, Quix.
On the Huckabee forum, he was asked about getting rid of all those agencies. His response: he didn’t have a plan. He just said that it would have to be gradual.
In other words, it’s a phoney issue and he knows it. It’s some kind of red meat to paulinistas that he doesn’t have a clue how to implement: getting rid of social security, the education department, etc.
If you’re going to say you want to get rid of it, then you should at least be able to spell out your plan.
Thanks to Reagan and the 800 US Marines sent there to escort the PLO to safety, Ron Paul didn't get his wish to see the Israelis suffer all those combat losses. And, as a bonus, the Israelis and the rest of the world got to enjoy yassir arafat's "good works" for another 22 years.
In the same vein, Ron Paul was about the only republican politician to criticize the US (Reagan again) UN vote to condemn Israel's attack on the Iraqi reactor. I guess his reasoning, him being a joo-hater and all, was that if we didn't condemn Israel for attacking perceived threats to their security, they'd use their military more often, thus taking more casualties.
Thanks. I am sick to death of his robot supporters saying he is a constitutionalists, he is not. If he where he would understand defense.
What I think is that there are many rabid supporters who project on him some sort of weird aptitudes with out knowing who he actually is.
I want him to go away. He needs to spend time with his grand-kids and leave the rest of us alone.
He called Jews Nazis, LJ. That’s about as clear as you can get.
Ron Paul is a disaster for Israel, and therefore, a disaster for any conservative Christian with half a lick of insight.
Paul (like Glen Beck) is chasing the George Noory, Coast to Coast voters: the weirder it is, the more they like it.
The US is responsible for 9/11, burnt the buildings down, blew them up, and there are now ghosts inhabiting the site.
Ping to little discussed Ron Paul info.
Nice try. Hilter’s gradmother was Jewsih too. 1 or 2 bones thrown Israel’s way does not erase a career of Israel bashing. Ron Paul is a anti-Israel nut.
Even a newtard should know that when you bring up hitler, you're signaling intellectual defeat.
May God reject Ron Paul’s anti-Israeli positions.
Foreign aid should be given to NO NATION, they either live or die on their own. Foreign entanglements will be the death of our nation, and a constant state of war is the result of the interventionists within both Democrat and Republican ranks. Has anyone noticed, that we have spent ourselves into bankruptcy, "defending liberty" around the world?
Pat Buchanans thesis was that our interfering in WW I was undue interference, and was the direct cause of WW II. That point is inarguable. If we let the idiots in Europe spend themselves into oblivion, and die in the trenches for centuries, I couldn't have cared less. The U.S. choosing sides, and "quickly ending" it, actually has led to war without end, with OUR sons and daughters now the fodder. WW II, was simply the result of us choosing sides against Germany, and allowing OUR FRIENDS, to apply sanctions against THEIR ENEMY. This war on terror, is also a joke. We attack Iran, and Afghanistan, when those who caused it were wearing Saudi robes. Again, we are setting up another war, which will directly result from these interventions.
Trade with everyone, talk to all, and defend our shores with extreme violence, what is isolationist about that?
In case any of you have forgotten, the nation created by MAN called Israel, is a sovereign nation. It was not instituted by a miraculous Exodus from Egypt, it came into being by a vote of the U.N., which most on this forum hate. Either it can take care of itself, or it deserves to be in the ash heap of history. No amount of support, financial or military, will keep it alive one day longer than it deserves to be, or God himself wants it to be. For those of you that believe God himself wants Israel protected, let the Israeli's turn to IAM, and let Him fight their battles? He has said He would, why are we artificially propping them up, and taking His place?
In short, to equate Pat Buchanan, or Ron Paul to Nazis and White supremacists, is nothing more than a repetition of propaganda, designed to keep the trillion dollar heist of our wallets ongoing, and worse, the theft of lives of so many of our best and brightest never ending. Ron Paul is not an isolationist, but he does put Americas interests first, in a different manner than the war parties will accept. For that reason, and that reason is enough, he must be destroyed. If his views were to be allowed to grow, some very rich and powerful people, would lose out. Trillions are truly at stake, and immense power. The power to literally rule the world, it is as simple as that.
If we vote for Obama, Gingrich or Romney, SSDD, and we deserve nothing more. For us to have any hope of dodging the coming collapse, if that is even possible, and a perpetual state of war, the only choice is Ron Paul. Sorry, but there is no other that stands with Liberty, for U.S. Just remember, the next "global cop" will most likely be wearing a PRC uniform, after we no longer can afford the "honor" of doing that job.
Paul is the nutty guy on the dorm floor. Has a few interesting ideas until you realize he is co co for coco puffs.
Paul is the nutty guy on the dorm floor. Has a few interesting ideas until you realize he is co co for coco puffs.
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