Posted on 08/10/2014 7:11:04 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
Ron Paul: Don’t Palestinians Have a Right to Defend Themselves Too?
Ron Paul Institute
August 5, 2014
Speaking on Voices of Liberty, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul explains that, while he agrees with the often repeated in the media declaration that “Israel has a right to defend herself,” he wonders why more people in the media don’t voice support for Palestinians’ right to defend themselves too.
Paul elaborates:
And [Israel Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu says 'Don’t second-guess me, don’t push a peace treaty on me because I’m gonna defend this country.' I think Israel absolutely has a right to do this, but never once have I heard on TV — it might have been said, but I haven’t heard it yet — that the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves because they must feel oppressed. You know, they can’t go anywhere. They can’t go back and forth to Israel. They can’t go into Egypt. So they feel pretty well trapped too, but nobody says that this entrapment they have gives them a right to defend themselves from being imprisoned in this particular area.
Paul then expresses his desire that the US government would just keep out of the conflict and stop its funding of Palestine and much larger funding of Israel, including $225 million dollars more for Israel’s Iron Dome system that Congress passed on Friday. Paul suggests this foreign aid creates a “moral responsibility” in the US for deaths of innocent people.
Watch Paul’s complete commentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAyo1BfO0TE
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Ron & Rand - Two lunatics in the same pod!
You cannot claim self defense when you started the fight.
Yes, maybe the Palestinians should push out the Hamasholes.
Here is my response to Ron Paul. I’m going to type it in “Palestinian”:
Bingo!
Leftists love bullies, tyrants, thugs, et al.
Strange musings from Dr Paul. I agree that we should stop funding Hamas.
If he were in politics during WWII, he’d be asking “Don’t the Germans have the right to defend themselves too?” (He was 10 when that war ended.)
Palis started the fight egged on for years by their depraved “leaders” who use the “cause” to earn money.
The older he gets, the more idiotic he gets. This statement is just breathtakingly ignorant, astonishingly stupid.
Thomas Sowell said we live in a “post thinking” society…..Paulbots are leading the way in many cases.
The older he gets, the more idiotic he gets. This statement is just breathtakingly ignorant, astonishingly stupid.
Thomas Sowell said we live in a “post thinking” society…..Paulbots are leading the way in many cases.
So they started it, they are dedicated to destroying Israel and all Jews everywhere, they sneak around and try to kill civilians, both their own and Israel’s and he’s worried that we don’t recognize their right to defend themselves????? This man is delusional and a giant gaping a.h.
Stop funding the Paul’s
Idiot First Class.
From WHAT Ron?
He really does not want Rand to run, it would seem. Or else, he gives Rand a reason now to publically split with dad’s whacky foreign thoughts.
Pualistinians
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