Sunday, February 28, 2016

David Duke, Evil White Anti-Semite of Ku Klux Klan and Donald Trump

Nadene Goldfoot                                            
Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke-known for anti-Semitism b: July 1, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

In 1974, Duke founded the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK), shortly after graduating from LSU.  He became Grand Wizard of the KKKK.Duke told The Daily Telegraph he left the Klan in 1980 because he disliked its associations with violence and could not stop the members of other Klan chapters from doing "stupid or violent things.He then formed the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), a white nationalist organization.  
                                                                               
Good!  Donald Trump has never heard of David Duke!  It's great that this evil former Grand Wizard has not entered Donald's World to tarnish him.  He hasn't known that we have been confronting such evil people.

Evidently David Duke said something nice about Trump causing people to think he is backing him.  Donald said, when confronted about accepting such a positive vote, that he had never heard of him and said he would research and find out just who he is.  Trump felt he couldn't comment about whether or not he was flattered to have his endorsement since he hadn't heard of him.

Who hasn't heard of David Duke!  He's one of the evil elements of our society.  He is "an American white nationalist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
David Duke is  65 years old.  He graduated from Louisiana State U and attended the  Interregional Academy of   Personnel Management.

"In September 2005, Duke received a Candidate of Sciences degree in history from the Ukrainian Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), an institution that has been described by the Anti-Defamation League as a "University of Hate". There were  Ukrainians who actually helped the Nazis to hunt down and slaughter Jews, so I'm not surprised that such a school would be there.   Duke's doctoral thesis was titled "Zionism as a Form of Ethnic Supremacism".  Now he refers to himself as Dr. Duke and Dr. David Duke, PhD.  
The Anti-Defamation League claims that MAUP is the main source of antisemitic activity and publishing in Ukraine, and its "anti-Semitic actions" were "strongly condemned" by Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and various organizations.  The Anti-Defamation League also reviewed a book Duke wrote called "My Awakening" The Anti-Defamation League book review refers to it as containing racist, antisemitic, sexist and homophobic views.
                                                                      
Another holocaust denier, Khamenei of Iran, leader of Islam there. 
He says of himself that he is a racial realist and just wants to preserve his own white heritage.  He tells people that the Jews control the Federal Reserve Banks, the US federal government and all the media.  Wow!  We make up only 2% of the USA population, 0.02% of the world's population and we sure are bad in his eyes.  We also happen to belong to the white race, but of course in his eyes we do not garner favor because we are Jewish.  This Duke only supports the preservation of his Western culture and of course, the traditionalist Christian family values.   He has been rightly accused of supporting Holocaust denial, so probably is for Iran in this, since they also deny its history.  
                                                                       
Ernst Zundel, b: 1939 Germany
He is
 a German publisher known for promoting Holocaust denial.   He has been jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, of overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred".   He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000.
"Duke has expressed his support for Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, a German emigrant in Canada. Duke made a number of statements supporting Zündel and his Holocaust denial campaign. After the aging Zündel was deported from Canada to Germany and imprisoned in Germany on charges of inciting the masses to ethnic hatred,  Duke referred to him as a "political prisoner. "  

(How these Holocaust deniers can cry foul about the existence of this horror in our history behooves me.  It is recorded in every country's history, especially in Germany's since they are great recorders of what they did during this period.  It is recorded and documented in the USA, and our soldiers saw the results when they went into the crematoriums of Germany, Poland and Eastern Europe, etc.  It really is a stupid claim except to people who have had no education and cannot read, I suppose.

This man has been a one-term Republican Louisiana State Representative, and then he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988, and tried it again in 1992.  He has been unsuccessful running for the State Senate in Louisiana, the US Senate,  the US House of Representatives and the Governor of Louisiana.  Maybe it's because his record shows that he is a felon and has plead guilty to defrauding supporters.  He had cried being broke and had a sob story to go with it of losing his home and having no money in order to garnish donations for his cause.  He used the donations for his gambling habit.

He is for the Constitution, that is if he really knows what it says and implies, and is for the abolition of the IRS, is for voluntary racial segregation, is against Communism and is all for white separatism.

I hope Donald Trump understands that men like David Duke is an evil element in our USA's society.  I had a taste of this while living in Ontario, Oregon, which lies on the Oregon side of the Idaho/Oregon border in a semi-desert.  My husband was the president of Kiwanis, a service organization.  They held a morning meeting every week at a lovely popular restaurant that accommodated them in a back room, as many restaurant have.  One evening Danny received a frantic phone call from the restaurant manager, saying that a group wanted to reserve that room for their meeting, and at first they thought it was the LDS, Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, since their name was so similar, but they weren't.  They were a branch of David Duke's group of Neo Nazis  led by a follower of Richard Butler-founder of the Aryan Nations  from across the border in Hayden Lake,  Idaho.
                                                                         
Winkler Compound near Priest River, Bonner, Idaho where they just burned a cross ala KKK style.
"
Shaun Patrick Winkler waves to Mark Eliseuson while entering his compound. 

Another river, another site; Pend Orielle River, Bonner County, Idaho-a beautiful state.
                           
Shaun Winkler, Idaho
                 
Richard Girnt Butler, Hayden, Idaho

  Most likely their leader was "Shaun Patrick Winkler — who studied the Christian Identity message of hate under Richard Girnt Butler born 1918 until the iconic racist leader’s death in 2004 at age 86 in Hayden, Idaho — purchased 17.3 acres of timbered property last year in the Hoodoo Mountains of Bonner County, Idaho, not far from the former site of the Aryan Nations “world headquarters” in adjoining Kootenai County. "In the early 1970s, Butler moved  with his family from Palmdale, California, to North Idaho, where he founded the Aryan Nations, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ–Christian, whose ideology is a mixture of Christian Identity and Nazism. The organization operated from a 20-acre (81,000 m2) compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, a suburb of tourist town Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which became the center of a U.S. neo-Nazi network with worldwide links." 
He reportedly planned  to open it up for families affiliated with the Klan or Aryan Nations to move in and build residences.
Luckily, this movement was finally stopped.  "Aryan Nations badly damaged the fabric of local life as well as the region’s vital tourist economy in the 1980s and 1990s," so economically, if that's your only concern, it was a bad deal for business folks.  You don't make money on hatred.  They wanted it for Friday night.  Luckily, we were observant Jews of Friday night being the start of Shabbat, and our custom was to have a lovely Shabbat dinner at home.  Danny did not go down and confront the group, as he really would have liked to do, but the police did.  They were called by the manager and these people had come in armed with guns!  They were not peaceful nice people.  They were looking for trouble.  Even though Ontario was a cowboy town in my eyes with men wearing cowboy boots more than anything else, it was not prepared for something like this.  The thing is that there was a town in Idaho where they had centered, and here they were, looking for trouble.  We see that one horrid person like David Duke has spread his vile hate like a deadly flu, and others have branched off of it like ISIS has developed in the Middle East from other large terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.

Update: 3/6/16 John Oliver  Humor about Donald Trump; is this why Rubio remarked about his hands? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpO_RTSNmQ

Resource:  http://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2012/neo-nazi-builds-north-idaho-compound-replace-defunct-aryan-nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Girnt_Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Z%C3%BCndel






Saturday, February 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Position on Israel


     Nadene Goldfoot                                             




    Huma Abedin, Hillary's right hand lady and Hillary Clinton.
    Hillary has said she's like a daughter to her.  Huma's parents have
    ties with the Muslim Brotherhood of which were in favor with Obama
    on his trip to Egypt after taking office.


      Hillary Diane Clinton nee Rodham,  born October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, where Obama lived after being in Hawaii,  was our Secretary of State who is now running for President.  She was the former First Lady of the USA when her husband, William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton, was President and lived in the White House from 1993 to 2001, when in his 2nd term, her husband was found to have disgraced himself with the Lewinsky Scandal.   Hillary, herself a lawyer,  at the time was an injured party in the affair.  Now they have a good marriage.  After this period, "from
     2001 to 2009, she served as a United States Senator from New York."    New York has the largest Jewish population, and she learned to tread carefully with Jewish or Israeli comments  in order garnish votes for Senator.  


    Regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, Clinton has stated that she is "an emphatic, unwavering supporter of Israel's safety and security.



    On November 13, 2005, Clinton said that she supports the creation of the West Bank barrier, stating: "This is not against the Palestinian people. This is against the terrorists. The Palestinian people have to help to prevent terrorism. They have to change the attitudes about terrorism." She has also requested that Palestinian leaders "change all textbooks in all grades" from the current ones, which are "hate-filled, violent and radical." This was excellent!  I've been saying this over and over.  No other presidential hopeful has.  

    "On July 18, 2006, Clinton spoke at a pro-Israel rally in New York in front of the United Nations. She supported Israel's efforts in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict: "We are here to show solidarity and support for Israel. We will stand with Israel, because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli ones."  Excellent!  

    As a senator and throughout her career, Clinton had supported a law that requires identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  In September 2011, as Secretary of State, she filed a brief with the US Supreme Court opposing "any American action, even symbolically, toward recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel" because of the influence it might have on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.  Of course, this goes against Israel's needs and wishes.  She opposed Jerusalem being recognized as Israel's capital!  This went against what she had felt and said as a senator!  Again, what a politician says and what they do differ too often.  






    During an interview while the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict was ongoing, Clinton said that Hamas had intentionally provoked Israel by firing rockets into that country. In regard to whether Israel's response against Hamas had been proportionate, she said, "I'm not a military planner, but Hamas puts its missiles – its rockets – in civilian areas. Part of it is that Gaza's pretty small and it's very densely populated. They put their command and control of Hamas military leaders in those civilian areas. Israel, I know, has sent warnings and tried to get people to move, but in any kind of conflict there are going to be civilian casualties, and we need to try to get to a cease-fire as soon as possible."


    All this, I must admit, is a surprise to me in that Hillary has stood up for Israel.  Has she been butting horns with Obama?  These facts don't seem to be matters like Obama's feelings about  Israel. He was demanding that Israel go back to the 67 lines that weren't even boundary lines which was an impossible death wish for Israel.  
                       
    Having  been First Lady, she feels she has the experience to be President. 
     She graduated from Wellesley College in 1969.  Wellesley has been very anti-Semitic and even fired the staff of Hillel, a Jewish group on campus recently.  It was started in 1875 as a religious college " to 
    educate young women “for the glory of God and the service of the Lord Jesus Christ.”  It designed its admission policy to cultivate and perpetuate a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite.
    Then she graduated Yale Law School which she attended from 1969 to 1973.  Hillary  ran unsuccessfuly for President in 2008 against Obama.  Because of this, perhaps, he appointed her Secretary of State.  At the time, she did very badly in her campaign planning, as Mark Halperin showed in his book about the 2008 campaigns, Game Change.  
                                                                         
    Former Senator and Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has supported the US invasion of Iraq which turns out to have been a violation of the UN Charter.  She has shown hostility toward the International Criminal Court.  She supported international recognition of Morocco's illegal annexation of occupied Western Sahara and has attacked the UN of many of its key agencies.  In my view, these were all pretty good points.  I've been against the UN for many years because of how they have treated Israel.  I cheered when we went into Iraq after 9/11 which I'm sure many Americans did.  
                                                                                     
    Hillary speaking in Jerusalem, 2012
Hillary has become known as one of the most right-wing Democrats when discussing the Israel-Palestine issues perhaps to Democrats, but not to people who support Israel.  She seems to be a reflection of Obama's biases against Israel.  We have been most disappointed with Obama's decisions,  that she has concurred with.   During one of Clinton's many visits to Qatar, Hillary befriended  the head of Qatar who houses an Egyptian religious leader,  Qaradawi.  This religious leader teaches Muslims all over the world through his TV program to kill Jews.  This has been most distressing to me.  Doesn't she realize what they back?  

An ex-US ambassador to Israel, Thomas Pickering,  asked her in 2011 to support Palestinian protests  which was found in an email to a senior advisor forwarding his son's anti-Zionist articles of which abound on the internet.  Is this what she is depending on in garnering information about Israel?  It's what I fear happening to many of our leaders in Washington DC.  Without an excellent background in not only current events and past historical facts about the Middle East, our leaders have nothing really to to rely on to make decisions on their own.  
                                                                   
Hillary is known to have broken rules. She has kept a private email address for receiving official government business while Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.  Now, the State Department has looked at 40,000 pages  and has found this among others. 

By July 2015, it was known more through these emails of her connection to Qatar. "Altogether, on Tuesday the State Department released over 1,900 of Clinton’s emails (3,000 pages). Within this bulk of information, there are 19 emails that have to do with Clinton/ Mozah getting acquainted with each other. Sheikha Mozah was unable to meet with Clinton on suggested dates in June 2009 “due to prior commitments” and proposed to meet “immediately after Ramadan/Eid week of September 27, 2009.”

Another email found from 2010 was a suggestion from Anne-Marie Slaughter, Hillary's former director of policy planning,  that Hillary create a "Pledge for Palestine" campaign to give support to a Palestinian charity to encourage Palestinians to stay at the negotiating table.  Regardless of this, they didn't, but it does show a preference for the Palestinians over Israel.  Now, of course, the situation has become untenable, and Israel has given up trying due to current events happening in Israel that show the Palestinian unwillingness for becoming peaceful neighbors.

I have not found Hillary's statements about her position on Israel like I have with a few other candidates.  Wikipedia did the best job that I have found.  The question is, how much is for show to gain votes and how much is for real in how she really feels about Israel.  Her daughter has married a Jewish man and has children, now.  So has Trump's daughter. These 2 young mothers are friends.   How much will either candidate  view Israel in a more positive light because of this?  Will it shape their thinking at all about Israel?  One can not guess.  How much has Hillary been affected by Obama and Huma, who I have wary feeling that doesn't view Israel in a positive or fair light?  

It all depends on whether you believe in the Democratic party of today or the Republican.  It may just be that Hillary will be running against Trump.  Both say things about how they would handle Israel.  We have to look at their past history even more than what they say.  

Hillary is proving that her nice words pertaining to Israel are just that-words.  She now calls for an OPEN APPROACH TO HAMAS!  She wants to play nice-nice with the worst terrorists against Israel, and its playing into their hands.  Heaven help us if Hillary becomes president.  She'll be worse than Obama, and that's really what we don't need in these dire times.  Read this website I just posted by Daniel Greenfield.  

Update: 3/4/16:  http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262045/hillary-clinton-adviser-called-open-approach-hamas-daniel-greenfield#.Vtou6-qapEk.gmail

Resource: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33868-what-we-can-expect-from-hillary-clinton-on-israel-palestine
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.697675
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/12/11/wellesley-college-can-tiptoe-around-anti-semitism/WIvHJbNnp4s4U87VfoZfHP/story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Hillary_Clinton
https://www.rt.com/usa/271162-clintons-blair-qatar-emails/
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/antisemitism_at_wellesley.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-obamas-backing-of-muslim.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/03/muslim-brotherhoods-leader-qaradawi.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2013/07/sheik-yusuf-al-qaradawi-pals-in-white.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-emails-slaughter-216285

Friday, February 26, 2016

Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson and Israel

Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

Dr. Carson said that Israel would have a very strong friend if he were president.  He visited Israel last December and came back with the feeling that Israelis had felt betrayed by the USA, especially through the Iran deal.

" Ben Carson said he is in awe of the Jewish state, inspired by its ancient holy sites, impressed by the resilience of people living in a perpetual conflict zone — and deeply disappointed in President Barack Obama.                                                               
            
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem

"Carson said that what had struck him during his fact-finding trip was the resilience of the Israeli people. “I was so impressed by the people who refuse to be cowered by the violence and the hatred that surround them, and they refuse to allow terrorism to rule their lives,”                                                       
Benjamin S. Carson, b: September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, married, father of 3 children. 

"Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr. is a retired  and celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon and author. In 1987, Carson was the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head with the help of a staff of 70. He is now running for the Republican nomination for presidency.

He graduated from Yale and U of Michigan Medical School.  In 2009 he was the subject of television drama film. Then "he was the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 until his retirement in 2013.  

Benjamin the son of Sonya (née Copeland) and Robert Solomon Carson, a minister and later Cadillac factory worker. Both parents came from large families in rural Georgia and were living in rural Tennessee when they met and married.

He is rather non-commital about Judea and Samaria and said, "Regarding settlements in Judea and Samaria,  Carson claims the issue is “blown out of proportion.” After touring the area, Carson expressed, “Having been here, and having seen the housing going up, it certainly seems much more benign than what you hear about in the international press.”
                                                                               


Of interest to me is that he has taken a DNA test.    "In 2006, the television mini-series African American Lives conducted a DNA test as part of its segment on Carson. The test indicated that his ancestry is 20% European and 80% African, including ancestors within the Makua people,   the largest ethnic group in Mozambique.  

On the Iran deal negotiated by Kerry,  "Carson criticized US President Barack Obama for negotiating the deal without input from Congress, calling it a “slap in the face to the Founders.”  He said, "The deal is “a complete lack of common sense.”

His intelligence to be a doctor shows up in some of his comments about Israel.  "He questioned the desire among Palestinians for peace. He even suggested that instead of Israel relinquishing captured land to make way for a Palestinian state, neighboring countries such as Egypt should provide the space for a future Palestine!"  He reminds me of King Solomon.  

Resource: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Ben-Carson-Israel-will-have-a-very-very-strong-friend-if-Im-president-432218.
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46860/presidential-election-cheat-sheet-ben-carson-israel-jerusalem/#j4ZeCUeThblJKreZ.97
http://news.yahoo.com/2016-hopeful-ben-carson-pledges-support-israel-080219673--politics.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makua_people

Gov. John Kasich's Position on Israel

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                         
John R. Kasich b: May 13, 1952 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania 

Governor from Ohio, John R. Kasich didn't get a chance to respond much in last night's debate about Israel when asked.  That was a subject he seemed to dodge as he went onto some other subject instead.  That bothered me.

He's been governor of Ohio since 2010 and reelected again in 2014.  However, he filed to run for president of the USA on July 21, 2015, so he has higher aspirations.  Undoubtedly, he has done a marvelous job as governor.  I like his demeanor.

"Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is reported to have proposed freezing U.S. military aid to Israel while he was serving on the House Budget Committee, a recommendation that would make him an outlier in the 2016 Republican primary field."   That means he differed from the general consensus of others in his group, and certainly from mine.  

"Israel receives around $3 billion in military aid each year, much of which is used to purchase U.S.-made defense equipment. American foreign assistance to all countries makes up about 1 percent of the U.S. federal budget annually."

Now that tells me right away he doesn't have the knowledge or background of information that I have, and this is most disappointing, as I see that Rubio and Cruz share my enthusiam in backing Israel.  I notice that Rubio is a Catholic, but that doesn't stop him from supporting highly Israel, and Kasich is also Catholic, so that shouldn't be the problem.  

Yet, "Kasich’s website describes him as “a consistent supporter of American efforts to support Israel’s military, including support through the annual Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill.”  What our contenders say is not always how what they have done, though after being in Congress for 18 years, he had a pretty good record in regards to Israel but not in this area.  Kasich is most interested in cutting expenses to everything.  This is why he was "in 1993,  the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee."   It would have been better had he understood the DIRE need for Israel to be supported by the USA in this aid, in that it was a matter of life and death for Israel in their situation.  

He did support Netanyahu when he spoke to the Congress.   BUT-"Some of Kasich’s budget cut proposals as governor of Ohio have generated criticism as well. Shortly after he took office in 2011, his administration said that it would close its trade office in Israel, which encourages commerce between Israel and Ohio.  Evidently, Israel is not a special concern in his book like it is in mine.  

Then again, he has SAID some marvelous things about Israel.  "
  • If I have a problem with Netanyahu, I will talk to him privately. Why are they building more apartments? Because it’s land; it’s security. I would never, ever, ever jeopardize the security of that country. Never.”
    (Jewish Journal, February 3, 2016)
  • “... in Israel, we have no better ally in the world. No more criticizing them in public, we should support them.”
    (Fourth Republican Debate)
  • “An agreement should make us safer, not less safe, and I'm very concerned that this deal fails to do that. We should be particularly concerned about the security of Israel because it is our responsibility to be a partner for its safety.”
    (Bustle, July 22, 2015)
  • “You can't separate this U.S.-Israel relationship”
    (Bustle, July 22, 2015)
  • “I have been forever a very strong and emotional supporter of Israel”
    (TelegraphMarch 3, 2015)
  • “Being the governor of a very big and important state, I wanted to lend my support [for Israel].”
    (TelegraphMarch 3, 2015)
  • Kasich has visited Israel and attended meetings with AIPAC. 
Being the USA is going to be at least $ 21 Trillion Dollars in the hole in a few years, $19+ Trillion right now, guess what Kashich would do to Israel?  He'll  cut their military aid just when they are surrounded by ISIS and the usual terrorists of the area and will need it the most.  Just how will he show his "very strong and emotional support for Israel" and will help to save lives?  

Just as Israel needed more supplies, Obama cut their military aid.  I don't want to see a recurrence of that. 
It was  " in the same week that the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF, intercepted a Gaza-bound shipment of Syrian missiles from Iran, that President Obama asked Congress to reduce US funding for Israel's missile defense programs by  $200 million, according to the Washington Free Beacon.  

"Hidden away in the budget just sent to Congress by the Obama Administration is a proposal to cut military aid to Israel."

The budget states that the US could save billions of dollars by reducing aid to the Jewish State that could then be used on...  the Joint Strike Fighter. "  

Considering the fact that Israel is on Iran's list of firsts to exterminate with their coming atomic energy arms, this time in history, thanks to the inexcusable deal that Kerry made,  is not a time to cut Israel's defense situation unless they for some reason or other ask that that to happen.  Iran can accomplish that goal through Lebanon, Syria, or Iraq being they are closer and Iran has connections with the terrorists that they supply.  

Resource: http://freebeacon.com/politics/report-kasich-once-proposed-freeze-on-israel-military-aid/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/kasichcampaign.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasich
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
http://www.themideastbeast.com/obama-moves-cut-military-aid-israel/
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/03/05/obama-cuts-funds-for-israeli-missile-defense/



Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Marco Rubio's Position On Israel

                                                                 
Marco Rubio, born May 28, 1971,  in Miami, Florida; attorney and Senator from Florida and father of 4 children:  Amanda 15, Daniella 13, Anthony 9, and Dominic 7.  .
Marco Antonio Rubio, son of  Cuban immigrants  Mario and Oriales Rubio, is running for president of the USA.  His father found a job as bartender, while his mother worked cleaning houses and in sales at KMart.  . They had immigrated in 1956.   Marco's a Catholic whose parents have converted from Catholicism to the Morman religion.  Marco had attended a Southern Baptist church in Miami for 4 years.
                                                                                 
He is only 44 years old, and was born on May 28, 1971 in Miami, Florida. He has 2 sisters, Veronica and Barbara and a brother, Mario.  He married his wife, Jeanette Dousdebes, Columbian American, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, in 1998.  In his Florida high school this 5'10" athlete played football  so had a football scholarship to a college in Missouri where he attended for a year.  Then he returned to Florida and with student loans, attended U of Florida and the U of Miami School of Law in the late 1990s where he became a lawyer.
                                                                         

He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000 and left in 2008 due to term limits.  Then he taught at the Forida International University and started a new law firm.  In 2010 he became a US Senator and chairs a subcommittee on oceans, atmosphere, fisheries, the Coast guard, and also the foreign Relations on transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights and Global women's Issues.

 In 2012, he wrote a book, "An american Son," a memoir, and received $800,000 in advance which he used to pay off his $100,000 student debt loan and fishing boat. He's also written another one, "American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone " a paperback.  
                                                                   
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, b: 1952, immigrated from Havana, Cuba in 1960 with parents,  is the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida, representing Florida's 27th congressional district. She served as Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011–2013.  she was a former teacher. She continues to voice her strong support for the state of Israel and human rights.
While studying law at the U of Miami in about 1995, he interned for Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican from Florida, a Cuban American and supporter of Israel.  Rubio won the 2000 election in Florida and was the youngest speaker in 2005.  He was Florida's Speaker of the House for 2 years from 2006-2008.  Perhaps that's where he learned to speak so well.  In 2010 he became a US Senator.

 On April 13, 2015, he decided to run for president, having been a senator for 6 years.  He's also a strong supporter of Israel, feeling it is within our national security interest that Israel is strong, and also that we have a moral obligation to make Israel safe and secure for the Jewish people in view of what happened during the Holocaust. He stands with Israel and feels the USA should do the same.  He's for unconditional USA support of Israel.

Rubio will act on the following issues:

1. Strengthen the USA-Israel Alliance and Israel's self -defence powers
2. Revoke Obama's Iran Deal of nuclear power-use sanctions
3. Defend Israel's combatting terrorism
4. Fight against delegitimizing Israel
5. Move USA embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv- (Trump also will do this)

He's also going to:

1. Repeal Obamacare
2. Oppose abortion
3. Immigration reform-border reinforcement
4. Iraq-US presence fighting IS
5. Against normal ties with Cuba (why did Cubans leave -regime terrible)

The Arab American Institute gave him a -2 on issues he voted on:
He voted for the following 4 resolutions:

1. Res 138:  UN to rescind the Goldstone report accusing Israel of targeting Palestinian civilians
2. Res. 185:  Reaffirming commitment to negotiate settlement of conflict of Israeli-Palestinians, and calling for a veto of any UN resolution on statehood without a settlement.
3. Res. 23:  supporting Israel in maintaining defensible borders or returning to armistice lines of 1967
4. S. 723:  The Birthright Citizenship Act-limits citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants born in USA-(own parents had documentation).

Marco Rubio co-sponsored a Resolution for Israeli Self-Defense.
They recognize these facts about Hamas:
1. Founded with goal to destroy Israel
2. Refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist.  Will not renounce violence or accept any agreements
3. Control Gaza Strip and fired 900 rockets and missiles this year-increasing from previous 2010 and 2011
4. Democratic Israel has right to self defense against terrorist attacks.
THEREFORE, CONGRESS WILL:
1. UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO SECURITY OF ISRAEL, A JEWISH DEMOCRATIC STATE TO HAVE SECURE BORDERS AND ITS RIGHT TO ACT IN SELF DEFENSE FOR PROTECTION AGAINST TERRORISTS

URGE UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO:
1. Condemn terrorist missile attacks against Israel
2. Encourage Obama to work diplomatically with international community to stop Hamas and other terrorists from launching rockets and missiles against Israel.
  (Source: SR599/HR813 112-SRes599 Nov. 16, 2012.)

His work has not gone unnoticed.  Billionaire Norman Braman of Florida backs Rubio.  He's been a long time friend and helper.  They traveled to Israel together after he was elected to the  US Senate in 2010.  Another billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom, also likes him very much.  Sheldon is also a very strong supporter of Israel.  .
                                             
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio
https://marcorubio.com/parents/
https://marcorubio.com/news/israel-policy-position/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/19/watch-marco-rubios-fiery-takedown-of-obamas-israel-policy-this-is-outrageous-it-is-irresponsible-it-is-dangerous/
http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Marco_Rubio_Foreign_Policy.htm
http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Marco_Rubio_Foreign_Policy.htm
https://ros-lehtinen.house.gov/about-me/full-biography
http://heavy.com/news/2016/02/marco-rubio-children-kids-how-old-are-ages-family-wife/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/04/13/whos-in-marco-rubios-inner-circle/
http://www.jta.org/2015/10/29/news-opinion/politics/marco-rubios-big-jewish-backer-and-7-other-things-to-know-about-him