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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88087 04-14-2012 07:17 AM

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul revealed this week that he would support moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a surprising position that contradicts conventional wisdom about Paul's stance toward the Jewish state.

Paul first made this position known Wednesday night, during a private meeting with evangelical leaders interested in helping the Texas Congressman reach out to the conservative Christian community.

According to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider, the leaders started off the meeting by asking Paul whether he would sign an Executive Order to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a major policy objective for Israeli hardliners and many leaders in the Christian Right.

"The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want," Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that."

"How would we like it if some other nation said 'We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?'" he added.
Even Paul's senior campaign aides were surprised by his response.

"We were floored," senior advisor Doug Wead told Business Insider. "It sounds like pure Ron Paul, but it still caught us off guard...If someone would have asked him that in a national debate, I suppose it would have popped right out, but nobody did!"

Wead added that Paul's position "makes sense after the fact," noting that the candidate has frequently emphasized Israel's sovereignty.

Still, Paul's stance will likely come as a surprise to GOP leaders, most of whom view Paul's non-interventionist foreign policy ideas — and particularly his stance towards Israel — as his greatest weakness. The septuagenarian Congressman has largely been snubbed by the right-wing Jewish community, and was even excluded from a December presidential candidates' forum hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition because of his "misguided and extreme" foreign policy views.

"I appreciate what he said about Israel — as a matter of fact, I was pleasantly surprised," Brian Jacobs, a Texas pastor who attended Wednesday's meeting, told Business Insider. "It helped answer a lot of questions that I had."

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 54514 04-14-2012 07:47 AM

OMG, he is my f*cking hero.

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-14-2012 08:00 AM

Ron Paul , Israels Lapdog Lmao

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88087 04-14-2012 08:08 AM

The Evil AC Wrote:

Ron Paul , Israels Lapdog

This doesn't make him Israel's lap dog he is simply being respectful

**TX PATRIOT** · (This post was last modified: 04-14-2012 08:12 AM by TX PATRIOT.)

LoP Guest Wrote:

"The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want," Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that."

He's acknowledging the sovereignty of a nation...be it Israel or any other nation. If one is informed in his philosophy, one would not be surprised by his response.

ETA: What does surprise me is that he didn't conclude by stating, "It's none of our business where Israel locates their capital."

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-14-2012 08:11 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

The Evil AC Wrote:
Ron Paul , Israels Lapdog

This doesn't make him Israel's lap dog he is simply being respectful

Everyone else would be called zionist, but he is just respectful! f*cking Hypocrites.

Your Messiah is a zionist,take that Paulites

**Christ Follower**

thanks for some good ole common sense, Ron Paul. it doesn't matter what country it is, if they want their capital to be somewhere else, then that's where the embassy goes, doesn't matter whether it's Israel or Iceland.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88087 04-14-2012 08:18 AM

TX PATRIOT Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
"The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want," Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that."

He's acknowledging the sovereignty of a nation...be it Israel or any other nation. If one is informed in his philosophy, one would not be surprised by his response.

ETA: What does surprise me is that he didn't conclude by stating, "It's none of our business where Israel locates their capital."

He did but not exactly in those words...

"How would we like it if some other nation said 'We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there?'" he added.

**mstra** lop guest User ID: 90260 04-14-2012 08:20 AM

I'd say that was the sort of response a polite and intelligent person might make to a stupid question like that from stupid people.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 90195 04-14-2012 09:06 AM

except, is it really their nation?
and . . . is it any of our business?

guess he is appealing to the Jewish vote?

**JF Priest** · **JF Priest** Subscriber User ID: 47416 04-14-2012 09:39 AM **Posts: 23,878**

Christ Follower Wrote:

thanks for some good ole common sense, Ron Paul. it doesn't matter what country it is, if they want their capital to be somewhere else, then that's where the embassy goes, doesn't matter whether it's Israel or Iceland.

**Texas Uncensored** · (This post was last modified: 04-14-2012 09:46 AM by Texas Uncensored.)

Pure common sense. The evangalist ministries are coming around to Ron Paul. And they are networking with the demoninations connected to them. The day after Sanitorium dropped out, the ministers approached Ron Paul. Very good news!
http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2012/04/12...-ron-paul/

The lamestream is going to be eating a lot of biased words very soon, me thinks.
Jhikpghf

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**Redheaded Stepchild**

TX PATRIOT Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
"The real issue here is not what America wants, but what does Israel want," Paul told evangelical leaders, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that."

He's acknowledging the sovereignty of a nation...be it Israel or any other nation. If one is informed in his philosophy, one would not be surprised by his response.

ETA: What does surprise me is that he didn't conclude by stating, "It's none of our business where Israel locates their capital."

Spot on.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89496 04-14-2012 09:47 AM

I don't remember him saying that at all , when asked what he thought about the idea , he said it was "their business , not ours " .

**Luvapottamus**

Texas Uncensored Wrote:

Pure common sense. The evangalist ministries are coming around to Ron Paul. And they are networking with the demoninations connected to them. The day after Sanitorium dropped out, the ministers approached Ron Paul. Very good news!
http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2012/04/12...-ron-paul/

The lamestream is going to be eating a lot of biased words very soon, me thinks.

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Picking up the Santorum voters.