Kennedy: ‘As President, my support of Israel will be unconditional.’
By Adam Dick | Ron Paul Institute | July 20, 2023
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took his expression of support for the government of Israel to the maximum level in a Wednesday Twitter post. After criticizing the administration of President Joe Biden for “threatening Israel with the ending of the special relationship between” Israel and the United States, Kennedy declared, “As President, my support of Israel will be unconditional.”
Looking through the wave of negative comments and quote tweets that quickly appeared in response to Kennedy’s post, it looks like Kennedy took in the tweet a position that could be destructive to the base that has developed for his campaign over the last few months.
Many individuals took Kennedy’s criticism of US intervention related to Ukraine and Russia as suggesting that he would pursue consistently as president a noninterventionist foreign policy. That hope is being dashed.
Kennedy has also made a central focus of his campaign skepticism toward activities of the US government that Kennedy has argued in many instances have harmed the American people while advancing the wealth and power of special interests. Many supporters who share this skepticism will find it hard to accept that meanwhile it is appropriate to give support unconditionally to a foreign government.
Kennedy’s endorsement of the special relationship between the US and Israel, as well as his commitment to providing unconditional support to the Middle East nation as president, follows his discussion of his great admiration for Israel in an interview earlier this week.
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In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
So how and why did the 1967 war transform the relationship between the Jews of the world and Israel? … continue
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Is the bast*rd simply pandering hypocritically to the Ziocrowd?–benjamins, endorsement, MSM adulation, votes, etc.? Surely he’s not operating on any level of principle, or historical context, or human rights, or justice, or morality….
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Well, that’s a reason to not vote for him, right there! The world is getting sick and tired of the parasites in occupied Palestine!
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RFK may have just sunk his campaign’s chances with that comment. For somebody who stands for Truth and Justice, he will have a difficult time explaining how he can reconcile his “unconditional support” for Israel while at the same time attacking President Biden’s war in Ukraine. Israel’s recent barbaric actions in Jenin and Gaza, should be criticized by even the most ardent Israeli supporter. Killing children in the name of hunting terrorists is inexplicable.
I gave my full support to Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 for his unwavering support of the Oslo Accords. He was an Israeli war hero and General officer who recognized that war was not the answer and could never be the answer to solving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. So he secretly engaged with PLO leader Arafat to come up with a plan for peace that was laden with economic benefits for both sides.
But before it could be consummated and implemented, the extremists on both sides saw Oslo as a threat to their lebensraum objectives.
Rabin, although assassinated by an extremist Jew who was able to get within a few feet of him with a loaded gun. The implications of which, points to someone on the inside who gave a lending hand. And Arafat, who was in ill health and virtually put under house arrest set the stage for war. Because once Arafat became isolated and humiliated by the Israelis, it created a power vacuum among the Palestinians which was filled by HAMAS. An organization of extremists Palestinians who were looked on by Isreal as a terrorist organization. The Israelis treated HAMAS’s rise to power among the Palestinians as a Causus Belli. And so, the extremist group HAMAS and the “blood and soil” Zionists from Netanyahu and Mossad’s camps, continue attacling each other, while ordinary people, Muslims and Jews alike, suffer the consequences. There can be no peace without economic development and equal justice.
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I take issue only with your characterizing Hamas as “extremist.” Hamas had its origins in the early 1980s as a patriotic counterpoint to the even-then wishy-washy Fatah/PLO. It is a *resistance* organization that has been demonized and pilloried by the usual actors and factions. In the early 2000s, I greatly admired Hamas’ leader (I hope I have the spelling right) Ismail Haniyeh as an articulate nationalist/patriot of my own stripe had I been unfortunate to have been a Palestinian. He, in his turn, was forced to be fodder for demonization and eventual phasing out of active life (can one imagine the stress-and-burnout such as he would experience?). (I think he remains a revered elder Hamas statesman…in exile somewhere? Syria or Qatar?) For the Zionists and their “extremist” settler-colonial cohort, it’s all about persecution, domination, divide-and-conquer, control….
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RFK is just being pragmatic, he knows what will happen if he does the opposite!
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Hmmm…’Like,’ but: for the Palestinians, “pragmatic” means evermore misery, death, and, arguably, elimination as a viable society. If K is okay with that, eff him. Dr. Cornel West, I’ve observed, doesn’t do “pragmatic” vis-a-vis Palestine. Each, of course, is the longest of longshots…but we must start somewhere, and *soon*, to bend that ol’ “arc of the moral universe…towards justice” — which = strident denunciation of and accountability for settler-colonial Zionism, to wit: (i) put paid to its chokehold on Occupied WashDC and (ii) terminate its knee-on-neck lust to asphyxiate every Palestinian, mustn’t we?
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The man is not a hero and he is not a dope. He learned the hardest way what happens to any pretender to the USofAs throne who does not support Israel “unconditionally”.
What he is is the Democrats 2024 sheepdog ala Bernie. Woof! Woof!
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We’re all just kickin’ the can down the road — the can that has the Palestinians entrapped in it, suffocating, treated as (as that Zio general observed in 1983 or whenever) “cockroaches scurrying in a bottle.” Whoever doesn’t dispute those incontrovertible truths in this 2023, 40 years after 1983, is a hypocrite and, like Biden, a Zionist-in-fact.
If RFKJr doesn’t recognize that he hasn’t got a chance in hell in 2024, he’s a dope (plus hypocrite) of the first order. He should turn any “sheepdog” inclinations toward opening the door to some surcease for my adopted people, the hapless, endlessly beleaguered, endangered-species Palestinians. Insha’Allah.
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