Hello Friends,
Here's a surprise for the ronbots (not for me). Ron Paul came out in favor of moving the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And this new position of his came out during a meeting with Evangelical leaders at a Wednesday night meeting.
This amazing flip flop came about after Santorum suspended his run for the GOP nomination and with the hope in sight to get the Evangelicals to support him since Santorum is no longer on the scene and Romney isn't their flavor of the day.
This flip flop of Ron Paul is a desperate move to gain supporters. His voting record on Israel is well known and documented. His pro palestinian stances are also well known. For those who remember even though he votes against aid to Israel he voted for monetary aid for Hamas and the PA just recently so his voting record against all foreign aid isn't as clean as he wants people to believe.
There is no way he would ever move the US Embassy to Jerusalem and apparently he's a student of Taqiyya. He had all the chances he needed during the debates when asked about his policies about Israel to add he'd move the U S Embassy to Jerusalem but he didn't. All he said was he would be friends with Israel and trade wit her. If this is what he really thinks he would have said it then not once but every chance he had since his expressed views were booed time and again.
Even now he hasn't said it publicly even though it became public but behind closed doors. Guess he doesn't want to piss off his Storm Front supporters, the many other antisemitic ronbots and of course his muslim supporters.
So, I certainly hope that people won't be fooled by his flip flop which is the act of a desperate man with single digit votes in most of the primary polls.
Shalom,
Peter
Grace Wyler |April 13, 2012
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.
"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 has worked as a consultant for televangelist Billy Graham, told Business Insider that several evangelical leaders 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.'"