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Why Rick Perry Gets it very wrong about Israel Palestine

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(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

 



PERRY: "The circumvention of serious negotiations by PA President Mahmoud Abbas demonstrates a basic failure of leadership and a betrayal of the true interests of the Palestinian people."

 

The Palestinian Civil Society Calls for:

(1) Ending the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall.

 

(2) Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality.

 

(3) Respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

 



PERRY: "Since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, the US has provided more than $4 billion in aid to the Palestinian Authority. This year alone the Obama administration is seeking to secure $550 million in funding for Palestinians."

By all accounts the United States has given more money to Israel than to any other country. The Congressional Research Service's conservative estimate of total cumulative US aid to Israel (not adjusted for inflation) from 1949 through 2010 is $109.001 billion.



Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians
Fiscal Year 2011

Chart showing that the United States gives Israel $8.2 million per day in military aid and no military aid to the Palestinians.
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During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)


 


PERRY: "The United States must not condone and legitimize through our assistance a regime whose actions are in direct opposition to a peace agreement with our ally Israel, and in direct opposition to our own vital interests."

 

Our vital interests should be what is best for all Americans first and the "special relationship" with Israel has become a liability for US!

 

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad involvement in the terror upon America, "By his own account stemmed from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel." [5]


Abdulmutallab's attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day in 2009, was fueled by "his sympathies toward the Palestinians and anger over Israel's actions in Gaza." [Ibid]

 

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