Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an address on Tuesday that President Obama has not been enough of an ally to Israel, and Israelis deserve a more loyal US president.
Speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Reno, Nevada on his upcoming visit to Israel, Romney played the old, predictable political card of who’s a more committed, blind follower and supporter of Israel. It was done purely for political points, and had no substantive motivation or relation to reality.
“He has undermined their position, which was tough enough as it was. And even at the United Nations, to the enthusiastic applause of Israel’s enemies, he spoke as if our closest ally in the Middle East was the problem,” Romney added.
Romney then said that the “people of Israel deserve better than what they have received from the leader of the free world.”
Obama’s staunch support of Israel is never enough for his ideological neoconservative detractors. As Jacob Heilbrunn at the National Interest has written, Obama “condemned the Palestinian drive for statehood at the United Nations. Not enough. He awarded Israel $3 billion in military assistance, an all-time high. Not enough. He repeatedly avowed his commitment to Israel’s security and well-being. Still not enough.”
Or, as Vice President Joe Biden said in his response to Romney’s charges, “We’ve provided record levels of security assistance, funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system that intercepted nearly 80 percent of the rockets recently fired from Gaza, close collaboration on longer range missile defense systems, the largest joint military exercises in history, the most consistent and comprehensive exchanges ever between our top political, defense, security and intelligence officials.”
Biden added, “And, contrary to Governor Romney’s outrageous accusation that the President joined in the chorus of insults levied against Israel at the United Nations, President Obama has stood up repeatedly, publicly and often alone against efforts to delegitimize Israel at the UN and around the world.”
America’s unwavering and excessive material and diplomatic support for Israel, which ends up aiding and justifying all kinds of crimes against the Palestinian people, has proven patently contrary to US interests. This s0-called special relationship is destructive to the stability of the Middle East and to any kind of viable political settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There is not an American President past, present, future, that should so much as sneeze in Israel's general direction. America first – second- third.
Mittopia will lead to projectile vomitting and the zionista seizures for certain.
What does President Adelson have to say about all this?
We already know that Mr. Mitt Romeny, but if you love Israel more, then you should start talking about peace and forcing Israel apartheid regime to give back the Palestinians lands stolen from them.
2- stop loving Israel more until your demand is guranteed and presented in writing .
3- By you loving Israel more, it means that you are for apartheid regime, the Tyrant regimes as Saudis and UAE, supporting them and will support such regimes all over the world as long as you can keep your DOLLARS in an offshore banks where not even this administration can find it. 4- I am sure they will not find it, because they have the same account at the same bank, just few blocks down.
It is much simpler than that Mojo, if this guy loves Israel so much let him immigrate there and kiss Israelis every day. He has no business being in the US.
I guess all those vets they somehow managed to show up for this clown must feel really proud they fought protecting Israhell's borders and not our own. Or for the international banksters if they are WW2, Korean, or Vietnam vets. Simple-minded dupes.
Were these veterans from the Navy? I'm sure they would be impressed by someone saying the should love the country that tried to sink the Liberty and murder the crew.
It's the #1 reason I'm not voting for Mitt – Another Israel firster!
Same ol same ol mess!
Romney loves Israel, does he? That tells us everything we need to know!
re loving Israel.. it is kinda difficult is it not..?
Loving Israel is everything US electorate is interested in, that will solve all issues in US.
Opposite is truth, ending endless support by voting in favour to any Israels crimes against humanity would secure US future – US citizens should take arms and clean US "Knesset" while they still keep their arms, World would follow they fight against "Zionist tyrany" and US would win back respect they lost as tool of "Satanic Zionism". Vote for Ron Paul – vote for peace and future, vote for Romney – vote for endless wars, tyrany and maybe even WW3….
Oy gevalt! She's got lot's and lot's of our money, she's got almost every politician and major newspaper in her pocket, and she's been operating like a big time gangster bumping off everyone she doesn't like (in a way then even our President and Congress emulate), and… she's got almost every politician in her pocket, so what's not to like and who doesn't love her enough?
"…..so what's not to like and who doesn't love her enough?"
…..anybody who hates fat, ugly, war whores…..
Mitt seems to have picked up on a Michelle Bachmann's theme [ could that mean she might be his VP?]
At a Republican Jewish Coalition in Los Angeles, California Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: " Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support, America will cease to exist."
Romney is on the wrong side of history at exactly the wrong time. The vast majority of independent reader responses show they sick of seeing America's politicians giving 26 standing ovations to a militaristic, tin-pot apartheid leader.
As the Old Testament says, "SPARE THE ROD AND SPOIL THE CHILD",
FTA: "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in an address on Tuesday that President Obama has not been enough of an ally to Israel, and Israelis deserve a more loyal US president."
Has no one explained to Romney that Israel is NOT an ally, that until she declares her territorial boundaries, no treaty of alliance can exist between her and the United States.
So the major qualification of a US presidential candidate is how much "one love's Israel"? Give me a break. If American presidents would attempt to enforce all the UN Security Council resolutions (that is, be internationally lawful), the spread of Zionists into Palestinian territory would be halted and the Palestinians could get one with nation building. And if equal concern was doled out for the problem of religiious extremists on both sides (the ones that cause the problems), there could be a chance for peace. As long as the USA takes the side of the extreme religious extremists in Israel (the Zionists) and derides the Arab religious extremists (the juhadists), the conflict will continue. American presidients should not have to "love" either of these foreign people.
Romney shores up his mentally compromised base and O-bomb-a gets some undeserved "street cred"– it's win/win.
It's very simple how he figured that out: Obama would commit US suicide for Israel. Romney would be willing to commit suicide twice. Therefore he is right.
Obama would commit suicide for Israel. Romney, bless his heart, would commit suicide twice. That's the difference.
Romney's remarks are sickeningly sycophantic. Seeking the Presidency has now become a contest between with candidate can promise Israel more.
At the same time, we Americans are constantly reminded that US Middle East policy is of concern essentially to "Jewish voters". Translation: All this US military, economic and diplomatic intervention way over yonder matters most to Jews. So turn on your TVs you dopey goyim, watch The Game, and stay our of this.
Ironically, Mitt's inadvertently making Chicagoland Obama look like an independent Commander in Chief, which is hardly the case.
Conclusion: Zionist penetration of Washington and the mainstream media it complete and designed to be irreversible.
How pathetic!. And what a shame to have these dreadful characters. Two men who are supposedly the "most powerful men" on earth arguing to convince their Zionist masters who is the most servile to the Israeli cause. And the American people are just expectators without the will? the courage? the moral standing? to do anything about the whole thing. But by not doing anything, they have sold their priciples, values; that is, their souls..
he gives you the runs and makes you barf at the same time
The problem is that Obama has not hoisted the Israeli flag above the White House. Surely the Congress, bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby, should welcome the Israeli flag flying above the Capitol building – and flying even higher than the American flag. After all, Israel owns the US so why not fly their flag higher so we will know who is boss. Maybe then WIllard will stop his complaining.
America needs its Politicians to love America, not Israel , Not Britain , not Australia, America.
It would also help if those same Politicians loved Americans namely their sons and daughters and stoped sending them off to foreign wars, for reasons politik!
A lobotomy or scopolamine time release drip from under one of those scars on the back of Obama's head WILL NOT CREATE ENTHUSIASM. That takes a psychopath, like Romney or Lieberman.
This incessant groveling at Israel's feet disgusts me like nothing else. Israel is a predatory nation, not an ally. If Israel has it their way, the'll drag us into ww3 with Iran to preserve their own hegemony in the middle east. Israel doesn't care about America or Americans, it only cares about what we can do for Israel.
The US prefers Jordan as an ally in helping flank aggressive nations. Obama even advocates tours in jordan for US servicemen who are willing to teach the armed forces.