{"id":5748,"date":"2012-01-14T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:19:19","slug":"newsmax-paul-i-support-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/newsmax-paul-i-support-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"(Newsmax) Paul: “I support Israel”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsmax: Ron Paul Tells Newsmax: I Support Israel By: Doug Wead<\/a>
\nIn an exclusive Newsmax interview, Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul confirmed his support for Israel, but cautioned that while the United States should be a \u201cfriend\u201d of the Jewish state, America should not be the \u201cmaster\u201d of Israel. Paul also says the United States should not dictate Israel\u2019s borders or try to \u201cbuy her allegiance\u201d with massive amounts of foreign aid. He argued that foreign aid has actually hurt \u2013 not helped \u2013 the Jewish state. The interview was conducted by Newsmax contributor Doug Wead, a presidential historian and New York Times best-selling author. Paul has recently come under fire from some Jewish groups in America. The Republican Jewish Coalition banned Paul from a debate on Jewish issues in Washington this week because of his \u201cmisguided and extreme views,\u201d according to the group\u2019s executive director, Matt Brooks.\u00a0Newsmax chatted with Paul to get his side of the issue as the Texas Republican is surging in some presidential polls.<\/p>\n

A new Washington Post-ABC News survey in Iowa shows him threatening Mitt Romney as the second-leading candidate behind Newt Gingrich. Paul is now tied with Romney in the early caucus state with 18 percent of the vote, behind Gingrich\u2019s 33 percent. Rep. Paul\u2019s interview with Newsmax follows: Newsmax: What should our relationship be with Israel? Ron Paul: We should be their friend and their trading partner. They are a democracy and we share many values with them. But we should not be their master. We should not dictate where their borders will be nor should we have veto power over their foreign policy. This is not just about Israel, by the way, this is about how we should conduct ourselves with other countries around the world.<\/p>\n

Newsmax: But Israel is not like other countries. We have a large Jewish population in America. What do you say to those who criticize your policy toward Israel?<\/p>\n

Ron Paul: I think that some not only misunderstand the American Constitution and the role we should have in the world, they also misunderstand Zionism. Part of the original idea of Zionism, as I understand it, was that there should be Jewish independence and Jewish self-reliance. Today, America doesn\u2019t want anyone to be self-reliant. We want to rule the world and be the saviors of the world and we are going broke in the process.<\/p>\n

Newsmax: Some object to your policy of cutting foreign aid to Israel.<\/p>\n

Ron Paul: I have objected to all foreign aid. I define foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. We just can\u2019t keep doing this. We don\u2019t have the money anymore. Stop and consider America\u2019s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel\u2019s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.<\/p>\n

Newsmax: What do you say to evangelical Christians who want that aid to continue?<\/p>\n

Ron Paul: I say to them that our aid in the region is out of balance and it is wrong. Foreign aid does not help Israel. It is a net disadvantage. I say to them that \u201cthe borrower is servant to the lender\u201d and America should never be the master of Israel and its fate. We should be her friend. In October, 1981, most of the world and most of the Congress voiced outrage over Israel\u2019s attack on Iraq and their nuclear development. I was one of the few who defended her right to make her own decisions on foreign policy and to act in her own self-interest.<\/p>\n

Newsmax: What then, if anything, should we do for Israel?<\/p>\n

Ron Paul: We should share intelligence for mutually agreed-upon goals. We should honor our pledge to refuse any arms sales that would undermine Israel\u2019s qualitative military edge in the region. But we should stop interfering with them. We should not announce bargaining positions even before she begins her negotiations. We should not dictate what she can and cannot do. We should stop trying to buy her allegiance. And Israel should stop sacrificing their sovereignty as an independent state to us or anybody else, no matter how well-intentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsmax: Ron Paul Tells Newsmax: I Support Israel By: Doug Wead In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul confirmed his support for Israel, but cautioned that while the United States should be a \u201cfriend\u201d of the Jewish state, America should not be the \u201cmaster\u201d of Israel. Paul also says the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-1uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}