Ron Paul Shocks Campaign Staff With New Position On Israel
For all of these Ron Paul lovers – I have been warning about this, or some other similar action for over a decade. The sale is now complete. If you want the office of the Presidency – you must sell out to the Zionists.
Get under the desk, draw your knees up around your ears, bend over and kiss your ass-ets good-bye! (Ed.)
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul revealed this week that he would support moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a surprising position that contradicts conventional wisdom about Paul’s stance toward the Jewish state.
Paul first made this position known Wednesday night, during a private meeting with evangelical leaders interested in helping the Texas Congressman reach out to the conservative Christian community.
According to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider, the leaders started off the meeting by asking Paul whether he would sign an Executive Order to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a major policy objective for Israeli hardliners and many leaders in the Christian Right.
Wipe that smirk off your face
“The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want,” Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. “If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that.”
“How would we like it if some other nation said ‘We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?’” he added.
Even Paul’s senior campaign aides were surprised by his response.
“We were floored,” senior advisor Doug Wead told Business Insider. “It sounds like pure Ron Paul, but it still caught us off guard…If someone would have asked him that in a national debate, I suppose it would have popped right out, but nobody did!”
Wead added that Paul’s position “makes sense after the fact,” noting that the candidate has frequently emphasized Israel’s sovereignty.
Still, Paul’s stance will likely come as a surprise to GOP leaders, most of whom view Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy ideas — and particularly his stance towards Israel — as his greatest weakness. The septuagenarian Congressman has largely been snubbed by the right-wing Jewish community, and was even excluded from a December presidential candidates’ forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition because of his “misguided and extreme” foreign policy views.
“I appreciate what he said about Israel — as a matter of fact, I was pleasantly surprised,” Brian Jacobs, a Texas pastor who attended Wednesday’s meeting, told Business Insider. “It helped answer a lot of questions that I had.”
Ironically, Paul and Newt Gingrich are now the only presidential candidates who have said that they are in favor of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. Embassy there. President Barack Obama has postponed moving the Embassy. Romney “would like to see the U.S. Embassy eventually moved to Jerusalem,” campaign spokesman Andrea Saul said in a statement emailed to Business Insider.
While Paul’s position is unlikely to change the near-certain outcome of the Republican primary, it could help Paul gain support among evangelical leaders, many of whom have been hesitant to support Romney. Jacobs, who works as a consultant for televangelist Billy Graham’s organizations, told Business Insider that several evangelical leaders — including heavyweight televangelist like James Robison and Will Graham — have started to express interest in talking to Paul in the wake of Rick Santorum’s departure from the race.
Jacobs said he is now working with the Paul campaign to organize conference calls between the candidate and evangelical leaders. Christian television producer Justin Machacek, who also attended Wednesday’s meeting, said he is working on arranging a larger meeting between Paul and other conservative Christian groups.
A relationship with Christian Right powerbrokers could give Ron Paul more leverage within the party, as Romney tries to unite the GOP after this year’s divisive primary fight. It could also help broaden the Paul coalition, setting the stage for a future run by Paul’s son, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.
“100% of Christian leaders that I’ve talked to, do you know the one thing they like about Ron Paul? His son Rand Paul,” Jacobs told Business Insider. “Every Christian leader will say, ‘You know I’m not quite sure if Ron Paul can win the nomination’…but in the same breath, they tag it with, “But I sure do like the way his son has followed him.’”
Written by Grace Wyler for Federal Observer, April 13, 2012.
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…ok…so why move the embassy if Israel wants it moved, they can pay for it..fair enough? No…ok, then lets shut the thing down completely and bring’em all home…we could use the staff down on the Mexican border negotiating with the drug/war lords…by the way, why are we still paying Israel 2 million dollars a day (?) in foreign aid? Or is it coming back to our SOP’s (Sold Out Politicians) campaign funds…kinda gives “return on investment” a whole new meaning eh???????..Also, Tel Aviv, last I’d heard was one of the hot spots for child sex rings as well as normal ol’ white slavery, so perhaps TA would get a cleaner rep if we did move the embassy out…..just kidding. Maybe.
A US Embassy in any country deals exclusively with that nation’s national government. If that nation chooses to move its’ capital city, it logically
makes sense that our embassy would move also. This is common sense and has nothing to do with any shocking change of policy.
William, thank you. This article really is a good example of yellow journalism. I’m surprised not more people are commenting. But then again, maybe not many are reading.
I got into a very heated discussion the other day over the subject of Israel. The person I was talking to said that the ONLY reason God has not wiped the United States off the face of the earth is because we support Israel.
I’m not as well informed on the subject as I should be, and therefore won’t make any comments about the difference between Jews and Zionists.
And it is the Zionists to whom our government takes its orders from. The problem with this is that whenever any serious discussion of the matter comes up peoples emotions get into the way and they are labeled anti-Semitic.
Racism is a ploy that is used across the board to distract people from the facts. It was used anytime opposed the policies of Barack Obama and it is now being used in the Travon Martin case. The facts are being obscured by emotional bias.
Jerusalem is such a place that by our caving in to their desire to put our embassy there would give favor to Israel that it is THEIR city and no one else has any claim to it.
That whole region has been fighting amongst each other forever and we should not get involved at all, even to the point of being used by Israel to give credence to their claim that Jerusalem is solely a Jewish city and that it is of no importance to the Arabs.
But like I said, I’m not as informed on the matter as I should, and I may have just made a fool of myself by saying all this. But hey, I have the First Amendment right to speak, even if I make a fool of myself.
Your right Neal. I had a debate yesterday with a brain dead asshole who still thinks that the Zionist scum that infests Palistine are true Jews. he’s lucky I didn’t shoot him. He thought it was alright that they have 500 nuclear bombs. He is such a Drunken retard. Thats why I didn’t shoot him.
I forgot…Chosen people, my ass. Thats what this retard told me. And, there was true madness an hatred in his eyes. Can you spell “brain dead zombie”?
“For all of these Ron Paul lovers – I have been warning about this, or some other similar action for over a decade. The sale is now complete. If you want the office of the Presidency – you must sell out to the Zionists.”
“The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want,”
“How would we like it if some other nation said ‘We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?’”
You’re so blinded by your hatred of Israel that you can’t see how silly your article appears. Point number 1, you slam Ron Paul and call him a sell out. Why, because in his character and honor to respect other countries by not bullying them into America’s demands he states it would be up to Israel where our embassy would be located. So what, and your point is?
To highlight your blatantly obvious hatred and bias towards Israel, let’s substitute any other country in the place of Israel. How about Spain? America: we want our embassy in such and such a city. Ron Paul responds, it would be up to Spain. Yep, this is right in line with the character and integrity of Ron Paul.
I have no doubt that you would NOT have written an article if it were any other country on the face of planet under the same exact situation. Just to let you know, we’ve got embassies all around the globe. Naw, you would not have written any article had this been any other country, because it would have appeared to be a stupid article of no value, (just as this one does) other than to show the bias of an author.
The only sell out I see is the author’s inner hatred of freedom. The only good your article could be used for is a prime example of yellow journalism.
You fail to mention how this is a new position. The news is that nobody asked him before, but now they did.
Thirty years ago I believe Ron Paul was the sole voice in Congress that approved of Israel’s bombing of Saddam’s nuclear reactors.