Perry Denounces Obama's "Appeasement" of Palestinians
NEW YORK — Surrounded by some of the most hawkish Jewish leaders from Israel and the U.S., Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday accused the Obama administration of pursuing a policy of "appeasement" in the Middle East that has directly led to the Palestinians' pursuit of United Nations recognition.
"We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership," Perry said. "And we are equally indignant that the Obama administration’s Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith.
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Lee Dunkelberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Guess he didn't care much for Boy George's policy either, or anyone short of John Hagee's sanctioned policy.
Oscar Garza via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is still an IDIOT!
Riley LovesJoy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Israel has hundreds of nukes and is therefore fully capable of defending themselves from any outside threats.
Gregory S Windham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where is the logic? The USSR was far more dangerous and had thousands of nukes at their disposal. Why should we be scareed of a government so pathetic they can barely keep the toilets flushed. Politics of fear for all the Christians scared of death and retribution. Silly Wabbit....trix r 4 kids.
Jose B. Gonzalez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This might be the only thing on which I agree with Perry.
Gregory S Windham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where is the logic? The USSR was far more dangerous and had thousands of nukes at their disposal. Why should we be scareed of a government so pathetic they can barely keep the toilets flushed? Politics of fear for all the Christians scared of death and retribution. Silly Wabbit....trix r 4 kids.
Jalapeno Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
no, the Zionist lobby has told me to say this, and they are donating a lot of money to my campagin... I can be bought by anyone and everyone!!i
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is what Perry supports so read it very carefully. http://www.texasobserver.org/cover-story/rick-perrys-army-of-god
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Naturally, that sort of nonsense (the U.S., if anything, perpetually appeases Israel) makes Perry's criticisms reflect more on himself than the administration. Then again, Perry's foreign policy experience extends to what...Oklahoma?
Afghanistan aside, the administration's foreign policy has been relatively stable and measured, as it should be.
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I really wish we as a nation would stop fapping ourselves over Israel. Ugh.
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why do we worry about Israel? Palestine is hardly a threat to the US. Did the Jewish people learn nothing about the horrors of aggression? The oppressed turn into the oppressors. I wish Perry would get head lice and therefore end his campaign.
Jimmie Randall via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry can see barton Creek Country Club from his( rented) front porch.
Jeremy M. Prince via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We helped create the mess that is Israel-Palestine. We are married to it. But Israel's behavior is totally unacceptable. They occupy no higher moral high ground with regard to the Palestinians than the US government did in their actions toward the Native American tribes. There is no difference whatsoever and both are wholly repugnant.
Jeremy M. Prince via Texas Tribune on Facebook
BTW - what was Perry's position on the "controversy" regarding the Jewish Texas House Speaker Joe Strauss? Did he agree with his evangelical Christian brothers that Joe couldn't adequately represent the conservative Christian Texans in his district (or the rest of the state) because he was Jewish?
Wendy Melton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If Perry is elected, we'll just have another PIG HEAD int he WH.
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There's also tremendous cognitive dissonance when you say you support a two state solution, but then appear with key hardliners who absolutely do not, let alone lay down such onerous terms as to make such a solution impossible.
d f
Wonder how hard good hair had to work to find one of his lackeys who could write this speech for him? Sounds like they borrowed from the Repub Cliffs Notes on Israel. Ask him about what he said about 2 days from now. I said whaaa? Wha u tawkin bout? Golda who? Jes anuther zample of ole good hair in way, way over his head. Betcha he now he wishes he paid more attention in his classes. Oh, yeah. Those eggie classes. Wouldn't have made any difference anyhow. Everbudy wuz all running around yellin and screamin, trying to get a blessed red pot on thur head.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry stop speaking. You are a dolt.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is the perfect embodiment of "naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous."
Thomas Prentice via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We should have stopped Israel from getting hundreds of nuclear warheads and hundreds of missiles and Iran has zero, zip, nada. The greatest threat of nuclear war comes from the right wing extremist Likud Party government headed by Netanyahu.
Barbara Nalls Golson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Stop lying to the people. Get Texas in order first.
John Doe
Just a minor detail but FYI it's American International Group not American Insurance group!
Dale H Curry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is a perfect example of Perry. Take what POTUS has done, which does not differ from his predecessors (going back to Reagan and before)l and twist it with lies and misrepresentations. Then attack POTUS with the lies and rhetoric. This man is the essence of cognitive dissonance.
William Leavenworth
I suppose, if Perry worships a God who moonlights as a tribal real estate agent, that he would support returning Texas to the descendants of the Comanches from whom it was taken? After all, their tribal God gave Texas to them, not to Europeans.
jpt51
I know our good Gov. Perry didn't learn that kind of insulting and un-American behavior at TAMU. Compare a Bob Dole Republican with what Rick, Sarah and Miclelle passes for as party leader these days. Except for Huntsman, the Republican Party's candidates.are unqualified to lead the nation.
F. Sabra
"Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations," Obama said. This may be true, but it has yet to be tried and tested. What we do know is that peace has not come through the diplomatic wrangling of the United States. The current president of the United States would rather continue the myth of progress initiated by those who sat in the White House before him, a myth that includes a sense of self-awarded respite from concern for those who are in lethal trouble on the part of those who aren’t.
The President says, "One year ago, I stood at this podium and called for an independent Palestine. I believed then – and I believe now – that the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own. But what I also said is that genuine peace can only be realized between Israelis and Palestinians themselves." His words, unfortunately, are like mental illness - there is no basis for optimism. The Middle East peace process has only allowed the Palestinian people to fall a little bit deeper into despair and oppression, dying amid useless dialogue and nonstop occupation. Death, torture, refugee camps, more settlements, an apartheid wall and the passage of time are evidence that the Palestinian people are not free, but worse - they have not been treated human. It is more sickening, more repulsive, when this optimism comes from those who are so well-informed and cannot recognize that they are lying to themselves while the Palestinian people are being annihilated.
The President does not say, “It is a fact that loyalties cannot be built on a framework of moral disloyalty. Human need is not answered by mere ideas, which has been the only thing offered to the Palestinian people.” If the president should make this kind of statement, and if other world leaders gave up the will to be silent and respectful, things might finally change and there would be no reason to believe that they are committing political treason or continue to corroborate in the lie that has continued for more than 60 years.
The President says, "Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians who must live side by side," He says, "Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians – not us – who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: on borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem." If it were any other situation, we might be able to believe that these words are backed by sincerity and raw truth and not on behalf of those who have cash and power or who have the advantage of the hour.
The President says "Israel deserves recognition. It deserves normal relations with its neighbors.” He did not say that the Palestinians deserve recognition or that the Palestinians deserve liberty and justice.
Here alone is where we must stop pretending that serious changes will occur within the lives of those under occupation, without the need for unjust ideals to be altered. The end results of this conflict are tied directly to the value of America’s contribution; this obviously means much less, especially when impartiality and fairness are so obviously missing. It's time for the UN to do more and the US to do less.
Khalilah Sabra
Muslim American Society Immigrant Justice Center
www.masijc.org