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To: keyd
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"Ron Paul: I have objected to all foreign aid. I define foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. We just can’t keep doing this. We don’t have the money anymore.

Stop and consider America’s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.

Newsmax: What then, if anything, should we do for Israel?

Ron Paul: We should share intelligence for mutually agreed-upon goals. We should honor our pledge to refuse any arms sales that would undermine Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.

But we should stop interfering with them. We should not announce bargaining positions even before she begins her negotiations. We should not dictate what she can and cannot do. We should stop trying to buy her allegiance. And Israel should stop sacrificing their sovereignty as an independent state to us or anybody else, no matter how well-intentioned.
11 posted on 12/07/2011 11:17:00 AM PST by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: algernonpj
Stop and consider America’s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.

So what?

These people love getting American tax dollars.

Just go along with it!

14 posted on 12/07/2011 11:22:44 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit))
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To: algernonpj
This has been Dr. Paul's stance all along. Not just on Israel, but for all of our Allies. Regardless of sh*t people have said he "means", this is what his voting record upholds.

And I agree. I didn't agree when Clinton was trying to broker a "peace deal" by strong arming Isreal. I didn't like it when Bush did the same.

Leave 'em alone and sell 'em all the "beans and bullets" they need to protect themselves. We need to stop being Globo-cop before it destroys us altogether.

46 posted on 12/07/2011 12:51:32 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
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