Mitt Romney gets caught on tape once again. Another video was released to Mother Jones that showed the candidate talking about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, badmouthing the nation in one video by saying that they aren't actually interested in peace at all.
This is the second set of videos that has been released to the magazine Mother Jones. The first video showed Romney telling donors that the half of the country that supported Obama were basically freeloaders on government assistance, who pay no taxes and think that they are entitled to food, housing and other items.
The current video, which was actually shot in May, told a different group of donors that the conflict between the nations of Palestine and Israel will continue to "remain an unsolved problem," because "the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace."
The Romney campaign had an emergency statement overnight, not apologizing, but saying that the statements were "off the cuff." There has not yet been a statement about the second video. While the second video does not contain an out-and-out blatant alienation of a percentage of the American population, it does contain a clue as to what Romney's foreign policy might be when it comes to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Basically, there is no foreign policy because Romney thinks that the nations don't want peace.
"These are problems—these are very hard to solve, all right?" Romney said. "And 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.'" Romney ticked off the Palestines in July in Jerusalem as well, by saying the their culture was to blame for the reason that they don't have the economy that Israel does.
That leaves Palestinian officials confused and quite annoyed with Romney once again. Hanan Ashrawi, a top Palestine Liberation Organization official said in an interview with The Globe: "Such an irresponsible pronouncement does not serve the cause of peace. I'm really amazed," she added. "If you are a leader and hope to claim the highest pole, you can't say this is too difficult. If you think you will drop anything as complicated or difficult means you abdicated responsibility."
A Palestine negotiator with Israel, Saeb Erekat, strongly disagreed with Romney's ridiculous statement that Palestine didn't want peace. "I hope that if Mitt Romney had really said that, he would reconsider this," he said in an interview. "Palestinians and Israelis need peace and need all those who can help make peace...Those who believe in democracy and peace must redouble their efforts. I hope Mr. Romney will redouble his efforts to see that peace is achievable in the region."
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Hundreds of billions of dollars subsidize this impasse. Hundreds more will. Easier for the two frontrunners than saying 6 million need a homeland as much as 6 million needed a homeland, and forcing a solution neither side would like, so is probably fair.
A Jewish state should've been carved out of Germany in '45. The British sold the same real estate twice. The world has anywhere in the area of five weeks to fifty more years of this hatefest to look forward to for this unwisdom.
It won't be long before we're at war with Iran. The Palestinians will writhe. Romneys' shrug won't even be remembered, and was barely worth noting in the first place.
Debunking the Palestine Lie
No partition=one State one vote, or genocide.
They have plenty more spite to spend, leave 'em to it. Good vid, and the related "girls in the Israel military" make a strong case for them being the hottest babes on the planet.
This is utter groundless nonsense. There is no Palestinian people without a total fight to the death to destroy Israel and anyone who has studied this see this. Jordan was supposed to be the Arab/Palestinian state, but the Palestinians in Jordan like the Palestinians anywhere else cannot live with anyone. They tried to kill the King of Jordan and take over the country.
Similar situation in Tunisia, and Lebanon. The Palestinian body politic is poisoned with terrorism and violence that does not even originate inside it, how does that qualiy as a people who deserve a country.
Before I started studying this I thought a Palestinian state was fair, now I am against a Palestinian state. An almost equivalent number of Jews was expelled from Arab states their property and land confiscated while they were banished to Israel where they assumed the Jews would all be murdered I suppose.
It's hard to bad-mouth a culture like that.
If one thing has been proven in 60 years, it's that the Palestinians can't make 6 inches against Israel.
Terrorists are stateless warriors. Terrorism is a tactic. Zionists have been terrorists.
Deserve has nothing to do with it. Nothing is fair. Outside of where my tax dollars go, I care little. It's an observation.They take a 1/6 hit, or lose the Jewish State. Dehumanization is a tactic too. They need a home. Can fight allows an alternative. Must fight doesn't. No state, no alternative.
Israel is lucky the Beduins crushed the displaced peoples. Less lucky when they took the west bank in '67 and tried to give it back, the Jordanians said,"You broke it. You bought it."
They won't do it anyway. The whole racist pack on either end can stew in their own juice. Should've taken the ceasefire offer 10 years ago, but no one makes deals at high tide. Too bad. It held in Ireland, even when the economy went south.
A great and ancient people, their contributions to humanity legion. They're stuck in a holding pattern until 'fair' and 'deserve' becomes 'lets get on with our lives'. America can be a guarantor, but only Israel can be a progenitor of a solution. And all they want now is Iran. That should be helpful.
the palestinian's only solutions it to make war on their leadership and then make peace with israel - then no problem. it's so obvious this could happen at any time in 10 minutes ... that it never happens and maybe never will.
Palestinians have no interest in peace with Israel.
Romney is right on both the issues.
The Palestinians need to be bad-mouthed, or the basic truths of what this thing is all about needs to be defined, because like a lot of things Americans who do not understand issues are confused even more when they are presented with two sides that have their own facts that are irreconcilable.
The Palestinians leadership still has in its charter that its aim is not to have peace with Israel, it's aim is to destroy the Israeli state - period. That means to anyone with half a brain that they are choosing war - deliberately. There is not much you can say to refute that, but all kind s of strategies have been found to make it look like there are two equal sides to this.
Whenever violence is provoked in this war it is always Israel that gets blamed for the violence even when it is begins with the Palestinians. Israel gave Gaza to the Palistinians, and all they do it shoot rockets into Israel.