Campaign Statements — Israel/Palestine
Thursday September 22, 2011
Just before Bibi Netanyahu came to the United States, he threw Israel under the bus, tried to negotiate for Israel. The right course—if you disagree with an ally, you talk about it privately. But in public, you stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your allies.
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |
Tuesday September 20, 2011
“And yet President Obama has systematically undermined America’s relationship with Israel, specifically on the question of a negotiated settlement with the Palestinian People.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Perry |
Tuesday September 20, 2011
“The Palestinians must know their gambit comes with consequences in particular that America will have to reconsider the $4 billion in assistance we have provided to the Palestinians over the last 17 years… We should close the PLO office in Washington if the U.N. grants the standing of a Palestinian state.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Perry |
Tuesday September 20, 2011
“it was wrong for this Administration to suggest the 1967 borders should be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When you consider this suggestion was made on the eve of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit, we see in this American Administration a willingness to isolate a close ally and to do so in a manner that is insulting and naïve.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Perry |
Tuesday September 20, 2011
“I am for Jerusalem being united under Israeli rule … and as the president of the United States, if you want to work for the State Department, you will be working in Jerusalem.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Perry |
Tuesday September 20, 2011
“The Obama policy of moral equivalence, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and the Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a very dangerous insult. There is no middle ground between our allies and those who seek their destruction.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Perry |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“No country can be expected to conduct peace negotiations with a terrorist organization dedicated to its destruction, or with a Palestinian governmental authority that joins forces with such a terrorist organization. Because Hamas has not changed, an Israeli peace with Hamas is impossible. Twenty years of hopes for the modern peace process cannot change this fundamental reality. It also means that entering into peace negotiations with any organization that includes Hamas is a fool’s errand. It is something that no friend of Israel should ever ask Israel to do.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“If Israel disarmed today, there would be no Israel tomorrow. But if Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups disarmed today, then tomorrow we would have peace in the Middle East.
While our challenge today will likely not meet with such a simple solution, our commitment to Israel’s protection remains as staunch as it has been from the moment of Israel’s birth.
And I would also say this to the brave people of Israel: Never, ever underestimate the hold that Israel has on the American heart.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“The United States should also explicitly reject the concept of a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees. The so-called right of return is a historically impossible demand that would be a demographic disaster and mean the end of a Jewish State of Israel. We are for a right to prosperity, a right to freedom, a right to the rule of law, and a right to private property. We must be totally opposed to a right of return.
This means that the Palestinian refugee problem must be resolved outside the borders of Israel by the Palestinian government after Palestinian statehood has been achieved.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
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