Gov. Perry: The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.

Back to politics today after taking yesterday off to watch football leading up to that AWESOME game in Tallahassee between the Oklahoma Sooners and Florida State Seminoles.  OU solidified their #1 ranking with the win over #5 -- must admit I was really happy as the clocked ticked down with our 10-point lead.  Now on to Missouri this week at home -- it is a lot easier to watch the game at the stadium then it is on TV -- don't have to sit through all the commercials at the stadium or listen to announcers drone on and on!

Israel has a friend with Governor Perry and with him in the White House they would not have to be concerned if they were still our ally as they are doing with Obama.  This one sentence by Governor Perry says it all about what has been happening:

Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations with Israel.

Doesn't take a genius to figure out that Obama has been on the side of the Palestinians but then so has his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for years.  No one could ever forget the pictures of Ms. Clinton with Arafat's wife:

The US better stand up for Israel at the UN but I am not holding my breath with Obama and his Administration.  How many US President's have vowed to the Saudi King?  Only Obama who showed the world that he was on the side of the Arab countries not Israel which he has demonstrated over and over again:

My biggest question is when are the Jewish voters going to wake up that Obama is not the friend of Israel?  There is no way they should trust his campaign rhetoric this time after what we have all been witnessing with him in the White House.   Any pro-Israeli rhetoric coming out of Obama is purely political as he doesn't mean a word.

Governor Perry leaves no doubt that he is fully on the side of Israeli's:

Gov. Perry: The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.

Posted on September 16th, 2011 

Governor Rick Perry submitted this op-ed, which appears in today’s Wall Street Journal: 

Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations with Israel.

The historic friendship between the United States and Israel stretches from the founding of the Jewish state in 1948 to the present day. Our nations have developed vital economic and security relationships in an alliance based on shared democratic principles, deep cultural ties, and common strategic interests. Historian T.R. Fehrenbach once observed that my home state of Texas and Israel share the experience of “civilized men and women thrown into new and harsh conditions, beset by enemies.” 

Surrounded by unfriendly neighbors and terror organizations that aim to destroy her, the Jewish state has never had an easy life. Today, the challenges are mounting. Israel faces growing hostility from Turkey. Its three-decades-old peace with Egypt hangs by a thread. Iran pursues nuclear weapons its leaders vow to use to annihilate Israel. Terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians from Hezbollah and Hamas continue. And now, the Palestinian leadership is intent on destroying the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel in favor of unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. 

The Palestinian plan to win that one-sided endorsement from the U.N. this month in New York threatens Israel and insults the United States. The U.S. and the U.N. have long supported the idea that Israel and its neighbors should make peace through direct negotiations. The Palestinian leadership has dealt directly with Israel since 1993 but has refused to do so since March 2010. They seem to prefer theatrics in New York to the hard work of negotiation and compromise that peace will require. 

Errors by the Obama administration have encouraged the Palestinians to take backward steps away from peace. It was a mistake to call for an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem, as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement activity. When the Obama administration demanded a settlement freeze, it led to a freeze in Palestinian negotiations. It was a mistake to agree to the Palestinians’ demand for indirect negotiations conducted through the U.S., and it was an even greater mistake for President Obama to distance himself from Israel and seek engagement with the hostile regimes in Syria and Iran. 

Palestinian leaders have perceived this as a weakening of relations between Israel and the U.S, and they are trying to exploit it. In taking this destabilizing action in the U.N., the Palestinians are signaling that they have no interest in a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership’s insistence on the so-called “right of return” of descendants of Palestinian refugees to Israel’s sovereign territory, thereby making Jews an ethnic minority in their own state, is a disturbing sign that the ultimate Palestinian “solution” remains the destruction of the Jewish state. 

The U.S.—and the U.N—should do everything possible to discourage the Palestinian leadership from pursuing its current course. 

The U.S. should oppose the statehood measure by using our veto in the Security Council, as President Obama has pledged to do, and by doing everything we can to weaken support for the unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in the General Assembly. The U.S. must affirm that the precondition for any properly negotiated future settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is the formal recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state behind secure borders. 

Since the Oslo accords were signed in 1993, the U.S. 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. The U.S. has an interest in the development of Palestinian civil society and institutions. We should encourage Palestinians who are more interested in building a prosperous future than in fueling the grievances of the past. 

Our aid is, and must remain, predicated on the commitment of the Palestinian leadership to engage honestly and directly with the Israelis in negotiating a peace settlement. Their threatened unilateral action in the U.N. signals a failure to abide by this commitment. 

We must not condone and legitimize through our assistance a regime whose actions are in direct opposition to a peace agreement and to our vital interests. The Palestinian people should understand that their leaders are now putting this much-needed support in jeopardy and act in their own best interests—which are also the interests of peace.