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Gopher
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On Israel
Ensure a Strong U.S.-Israel Partnership: Barack Obama and Joe Biden strongly support the U.S.-Israel relationship, believe that our first and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security of Israel, America's strongest ally in the Middle East. They support this closeness, stating that that the United States would never distance itself from Israel.
Support Israel's Right to Self Defense: During the July 2006 Lebanon war, Barack Obama stood up strongly for Israel's right to defend itself from Hezbollah raids and rocket attacks, cosponsoring a Senate resolution against Iran and Syria's involvement in the war, and insisting that Israel should not be pressured into a ceasefire that did not deal with the threat of Hezbollah missiles. He and Joe Biden believe strongly in Israel's right to protect its citizens.
Support Foreign Assistance to Israel: Barack Obama and Joe Biden have consistently supported foreign assistance to Israel. They defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both military and economic assistance to Israel and have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding priorities are met. They have called for continuing U.S. cooperation with Israel in the development of missile defense systems. |
Obama-Biden Foreign Affairs Platform |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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ReeseDog:
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On Israel
Ensure a Strong U.S.-Israel Partnership: Barack Obama and Joe Biden strongly support the U.S.-Israel relationship, believe that our first and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security of Israel, America's strongest ally in the Middle East. They support this closeness, stating that that the United States would never distance itself from Israel.
Support Israel's Right to Self Defense: During the July 2006 Lebanon war, Barack Obama stood up strongly for Israel's right to defend itself from Hezbollah raids and rocket attacks, cosponsoring a Senate resolution against Iran and Syria's involvement in the war, and insisting that Israel should not be pressured into a ceasefire that did not deal with the threat of Hezbollah missiles. He and Joe Biden believe strongly in Israel's right to protect its citizens.
Support Foreign Assistance to Israel: Barack Obama and Joe Biden have consistently supported foreign assistance to Israel. They defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both military and economic assistance to Israel and have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding priorities are met. They have called for continuing U.S. cooperation with Israel in the development of missile defense systems. |
Obama-Biden Foreign Affairs Platform |
Hmmm...okay. Didnt' know that.
So he's not a complete, hateful douche. He's just a hateful douche, now.
Status upgraded.
Thanks for the link. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| Chile backs B. Obama because of his foreign policy promises and because they, too, hate W. Bush. But please understand that socially, Chileans and many other Latin Americans, including F. Castro, have much more in common with S. Palin than B. Obama. |
This is basically the (admittedly off-topic) point that I was trying to make a few pages back about Al Jazeera's audience... |
Nice post and apparently we closely agree on this.
What I would point out is that my position has also been that, once, say, Chileans and Al Jazeera's primary audience, pro-Obama/anti-W. Bush/anti-McCain/and generally antiAmerican now, discover B. Obama's position on Israel, things will change. |
Quite probably. Though for what it's worth, I don't think that Obama's Undivided Jerusalem policy is going to survive five minutes into his first mideast negotiating session. That position was a pretty obvious campaign-trail pander, as far as I am concerned. |
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ReeseDog
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Chile backs B. Obama because of his foreign policy promises and because they, too, hate W. Bush. But please understand that socially, Chileans and many other Latin Americans, including F. Castro, have much more in common with S. Palin than B. Obama. |
This is basically the (admittedly off-topic) point that I was trying to make a few pages back about Al Jazeera's audience... |
Nice post and apparently we closely agree on this.
What I would point out is that my position has also been that, once, say, Chileans and Al Jazeera's primary audience, pro-Obama/anti-W. Bush/anti-McCain/and generally antiAmerican now, discover B. Obama's position on Israel, things will change. |
Quite probably. Though for what it's worth, I don't think that Obama's Undivided Jerusalem policy is going to survive five minutes into his first mideast negotiating session. That position was a pretty obvious campaign-trail pander, as far as I am concerned. |
Disturbing. |
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