By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY—
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently suggested that if he wins the current race for the White House, he will significantly alter the degree and manner of America’s involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Likening the situation to the ongoing tug-of-war between China and Taiwan, Romney told a room of campaign donors in Boca Raton, Florida that the best America and the West can hope for at present is to contain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The gathering took place behind closed doors on May 17, but an attendee filmed Romney’s response to a question about the “Palestinian problem” and uploaded the footage to YouTube this week.
Romney said that when looking at the Middle East situation he is forced to consider that “the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.”
Romney suggested that those who argue for simply giving the Palestinian Arabs an independent state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are not looking at the bigger picture.
“The border between Israel and the West Bank is…right next to Tel Aviv, which is the financial capital, the industrial capital of Israel, the center of Israel,” explained Romney. “ other side of what would be this new Palestinian state would either be Syria at one point, or Jordan. And of course the Iranians would want to do through the West Bank exactly what they did through Lebanon, what they did near Gaza. Which is that the Iranians would want to bring missiles and armament into the West Bank and potentially threaten Israel.”
Romney said the only way for Israel to feel secure in such a situation would be to police the new Palestinian state’s borders and airspace, which obviously the Palestinians would not agree to.
“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,'” continued Romney, noting that at present it is better to simply “hope for some degree of stability that this is going to remain an unsolved problem.”
“We live with in China and Taiwan,” concluded Romney. “We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.”
The Palestinian leadership was infuriated by Romney’s remarks, calling them “absolutely unacceptable.”
The Obama Administration also took a jab at Romney, with White House spokesman Jay Carney saying that the Republican’s approach lacks “leadership,” while failing to address the fact that, as Romney pointed out, the US has long sidestepped the China-Taiwan conflict.
Sounds to me like he put his finger right on it.
The Palestinian leadership was infuriated by Romney’s remarks, calling them “absolutely unacceptable.”
Naturally the self-denominated ‘Palestinians’ will be infuriated by TRUTH-TELLING. Western liberals and apologists for terrorism have been treating them like ‘special’ intellectually challenged infants for decades. Those who challenge the duplicitous history of the Arabs of the Holy Land are
setting themselves up for violent reprisals.
It is frightening to observe the historically uninformed and failed policies of decades of Western politicians who have permitted Arabs to re-write history without challenge; who have played into the hands of Muslim terrorists by brainwashing western citizens with the great LIE of cultural and religious relativism.
Today, we must accept on pain of legal action against our complaints, colonies of individuals who practice in their daily lives abominations against the Judaeo/Christian traditions and beliefs on which western nations are founded. I am reminded of George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ where all are equal but the ‘Pigs’ are more equal than others.
The TRUTH Always infuriates those who do not live by G-D’s CODE.