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.
Check out the post prior to mine to see the skewed “thinking” of a Doctor Demento Diehard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2163439/posts?page=83#83
Paul is not saying it is none of our business. He is saying that Israel’s self defense is evil and concocts moral equivalency and uses leftist language to defend his position. Showing the evil in the heart of all appeasers, he hates the ally that seeks to defend itself, over our mutual enemy.
Captain I like most of Paul’s domestic views and admire his no votes but he has a naive view of foreign affairs that he shares with far-leftists (who love him for it) (an I’m no gungho interventionist).. I may have voted for him in the primary if thought I could trust him not to raise the white flag to terrorists. That’s just unacceptable. I also think the man is growing senile and that’s not a joke or insult.
Pelosi is better than him on Gaza! Pelosi. His views on Israel are dangerous and ignorant. I’d chalk them up to ignorance first before I’d call him an anti-semite but you when you side with Hamas it’s not hard to see why someone would come to that conclusion.
"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.You're a schmuck. He's a schmuck. Every anti-Semite is a schmuck.
Pelosi is better than him on Gaza! Pelosi. His views on Israel are dangerous and ignorant. Id chalk them up to ignorance first before Id call him an anti-semite but you when you side with Hamas its not hard to see why someone would come to that conclusion.It's not ignorance. It's the result of a life-long aversion to JOOS.
Paul has gone off the deep end big time.
What’s Storm Front?
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I used to think Ron Paul was just a loon, who’s behavior was a bit queer, but cute. Now I hate him. Funny how someone can be reasonably intelligent, and have some reasonably good ideas, and still be such a self admiring a$$hole with a moron’s perspective of the middle east.
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Paul is merely adhering to his grossly flawed isolationist ideology. That’s exactly why I couldn’t support his presidential candidacy, even though he is probably the best congressperson in Washington on domestic issues.
He also lived in a time when the biggest threat to America was the British Empire who wanted to retake America..
Your history is faulty. Remember the Barbary Pirates?
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We don't get to customize our government based on the actions of our enemies. The Founders put the Law of Nations in the Constitution for a reason, and we ignore it at our peril.
Funny how he didn’t say much about holding Gazans liable for the Israeli death’s from their rocket fire. After all, it wasn’t Israel that started this dust up...
It just wasn’t enough for Ron and his supporters to destroy the republican primary, he just keeps yammering on.
LOL! The original point of historical significance was YOURS. Nice try attempting to dismiss my reply by squealing 'straw-man' like a little girl.
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Ron needs to realize we no longer have the luxury of the ocean protecting us for over 200 years..
And you need to realize NO country will respect our nation's sovereignty unless we also respect theirs.
It's all in that constituion-thingy.
Look it up.
You need to realize that there are people who hate this country no matter what we do.. There are evil and sticking our head in the sand while the enemy builds up strength is not the solution. Oh by the way we weren’t involved in WWII until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Knew that
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There are evil and sticking our head in the sand while the enemy builds up strength is not the solution.
Show me where I said it was.
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Oh by the way we werent involved in WWII until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Good grief. Why don't you go try to lecture someone who doesn't have a clue what they're talking about?
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