EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul Shocks Campaign Staff With New Position On Israel

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-would-move-us-israel-embassy-to-capital-jerusalem-2012-4

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.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-would-move-us-israel-embassy-to-capital-jerusalem-2012-4#ixzz1s776WJAw

[mmonk]

1. Don't let him fool you, he's for sale. Needs the evangelical vote.

[xchrom]

2. ron paul -- or any libertarian has never fooled me -- but yes --

here he indicates that he is 'For Sale'.

[Enrique]

3. "pure Ron Paul"

pure pandering.

"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!"

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-would-move-us-israel-embassy-to-capital-jerusalem-2012-4#ixzz1s7Eamsnf

[Thisissobogus]

4. Consistent

Actually this is consistent with Paul's belief in Israel's sovereignty and our obligation to not interfere with their decisions.

[cyberswede]

5. Interesting.

Do you support Ron Paul for president?

[MrScorpio]

11. Did Ron tell you that himself?

Or did you read it in his newsletter?

[sadbear]

13. I recently saw an online poll indicating that Mr. Paul was clear favorite for the nomination

but is that consistent with reality?

[trumad]

14. Ron Paul blows small babies.

[uppityperson]

15. FRP

[Ikonoklast]

16. Fuck Ron Paul.

And doubly fuck his intellectually challenged supporters.

[Ian David]

6. Ron who? n/t

[DCKit]

7. "We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?'

OMG, you ignorant bastard. NYC is always the first stop.

Sure, we've got some great monuments in DC, we've also got some monumentally ignorant politicians (case in point). What's to draw them here?

[nanabugg]

8. Damn!! RW GOPers will say and do anything ... sell their own souls for the grab. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Better analogy: the USA annexes Ontario, declares Windsor to be part of Detroit

and then declares Detroit to be the new capital of the USA. And then all countries object to moving their embassies to Detroit, because they're not keen on the whole "this is all our city, we took it fair and square in war" thing.

[PCIntern]

10. Yeah, sort of like that

Washington, DC thing and Native Americans.

Where's the outrage?

[mainer]

12. this seems rather minor, compared to his overall attitude toward Israel

which is: we should stop sending them money and defending their actions.