Campaign Statements — Israel/Palestine
Monday October 08, 2012
I will recommit America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel.”
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Monday October 08, 2012
““The relationship between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel, our closest ally in the region, has suffered great strains. The President explicitly stated that his goal was to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel. And he has succeeded. This is a dangerous situation that has set back the hope of peace in the Middle East.”
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Tuesday September 18, 2012
“I’m torn by two perspectives in this regard. One is the one which I’ve had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish… And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say, “There’s just no way.” And so what you can do, you say, “You can move things along the best way you can.” You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. We live with that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of life with it and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don’t go to war to try and resolve it imminently. On the other hand, I got a call from a former secretary of state. I won’t mention who it was but this individual said to me, you know, I think there’s a prospect for a settlement between the Palestinians and theIsraelis after the Palestinian elections. I said, “Really?” And, you know, his answer was, “Yes, I think there’s some prospect.” And I didn’t delve into it.ʺ
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Wednesday September 05, 2012
ʺunfortunate that the entire Democratic Party has embraced President Obama’s shameful refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.ʺ ʺFour years of President Obama’s repeated attempts to create distance between the United States and our cherished ally have led the Democratic Party to remove from their platform an unequivocal acknowledgment of a simple reality,ʺ he said. ʺAs president, I will restore our relationship with Israel and stand shoulder to shoulder with our close ally.ʺ
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Thursday August 30, 2012
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus
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Sunday August 05, 2012
“As president, Barack Obama has never visited Israel.”
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Monday July 30, 2012
ʺI believe that the issue of settlements is something which should be discussed in private by the American president and our allies,ʺ Romney told Wolf Blitzer on ʺThe Situation Room.ʺ ʺWhen we show diplomatic distance between ourselves and our ally, I think we encourage people who oppose that relationship to seek other means to achieve their ends.ʺ
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Monday July 30, 2012
As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality
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Sunday July 29, 2012
It is a deeply moving experience to be in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel
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Sunday July 29, 2012
Our two nations are separated by more than 5,000 miles. But for an American abroad, you can’t get much closer to the ideals and convictions of my own country than you do in Israel. We’re part of the great fellowship of democracies. We speak the same language of freedom and justice, and the right of every person to live in peace. We serve the same cause and provoke the same hatreds in the same enemies of civilization.
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