Ron Paul: No more pay-offs to the Palis

TWW writes:

You write: “the billions the West, led by the ‘conservative’ Bush administration, continues to give to the Palestinians are in fact a jizya tax—protection money paid to Muslims in exchange for not killing the dhimmi Jews…”

I assume from your writings on Islam and the tone of this entry that you are against billions being given to the Palestinians. On that basis, I ask the following question:

Who among the candidates still running have definitively said they would end these payments?

a) Thompson
b) Romney
c) Huckabee
d) Rudy
e) McCain
f) Obama
g) Clinton

The answer, of course, is none of the above. However, there is one candidate who has:

Congress and each successive administration pledge their political, financial, and military support for Israel. Yet while we call ourselves a strong ally of the Israeli people, we send billions in foreign aid every year to some Muslim states that many Israelis regard as enemies. From the Israeli point of view, many of the same Islamic nations we fund with our tax dollars want to destroy the Jewish state. Many average Israelis and American Jews see America as hypocritically hedging its bets… It is time to challenge the notion that it is our job to broker peace in the Middle East and every other troubled region across the globe. America can and should use every diplomatic means at our disposal to end the violence in the West Bank, but we should draw the line at any further entanglement. Third-party outsiders cannot impose political solutions in Palestine or anywhere else. Peace can be achieved only when self-determination operates freely in all nations. “Peace plans” imposed by outsiders or the UN cause resentment and seldom produce lasting peace.

As for your reasons why you are not interested in Ron Paul, isn’t reason #1 merely guilt by association? Isn’t it better to judge the numerous enunciated positions of Ron Paul? I am not saying that your recollection with respect to #3 is incorrect, just saying I haven’t noticed what you have in my years of reading his articles and statements. I submit the following piece written in 2003 directed to the loss of our constitutional republic and the many dangers of democracy for your consideration:

Finally, I came across this issue matrix of the candidates that I thought may be of interest.

LA replies:

Thank you for this.

As to “guilt by association,” all I said was that I wasn’t interested in Paul. Saying that one isn’t interested in someone is not an accusation of anything.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 21, 2007 03:45 PM | Send