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Title: Ted Cruz sucks up to jews, says he is no Rand Paul (alt. title)
Source: The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/ ... cruz-im-no-rand-paul-on-israel
Published: May 28, 2014
Author: Alexander Bolton
Post Date: 2014-06-01 16:17:19 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 434
Comments: 8

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is making it clear that he and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have very different policies on Israel.

The Texas senator, best known for his efforts to derail ObamaCare, is now pivoting to foreign policy. He is traveling to Israel and Ukraine this week and has scheduled meetings with senior Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. He has scheduled meetings with Jewish and Catholic leaders in Ukraine.

The Armed Services Committee member has emerged as one of Congress’s most outspoken advocates for Israel, a core difference with Paul, who in 2011 described foreign aid to Israel as “welfare.” Both senators are mulling a run for the White House in 2016.

Cruz has pledged to Jewish leaders that the United States must do whatever it takes to defend Israel’s national security interests.

“There’s no one in Congress I’ve met that is stronger on supporting Israel and strong U.S.-Israel relations than Ted Cruz,” said Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America. “His understanding of the reality and truth of the Arab war against Israel is really second to none.

“And it is clear that this support for Israel comes from the bottom of his heart,” he added.

Cruz plans to speak after the Israel Day parade in Manhattan on Sunday and at the Conference of Presidents for Major American Jewish Organizations the following day, according to Klein.

The 43-year-old Tea Party lawmaker chided Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations panel, earlier this year for not being willing to defend American values abroad.

“I’m a big fan of Rand Paul. He and I are good friends. But I don’t agree with him on foreign policy,” Cruz told ABC News in a March 9 interview. “I think U.S. leadership is critical in the world.”

He said he agreed with Paul that the U.S. should be cautious about deploying military forces abroad but added, “the United States has a responsibility to defend our values.”

Paul told Klein, who is close to Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson, that he would vote to continue aid to Israel if the question came down to his vote.

John Ullyot, a Republican strategist who worked for former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-Va.), said Cruz is making a play for conservative primary voters who have shifted further to the right on foreign policy over the last decade.

“Since George W. Bush’s first term, there’s been a real push in terms of Republican base voters wanting candidates to be really strong on Israel. You almost can’t be too far to the right if you’re thinking about running for president. It’s the neocon vote,” Ullyot said.

An increasing number of Republicans favor retrenching U.S. military involvement overseas in the wake of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But Ullyot said, “There’s still a clear upper hand to neoconservatives” among Republican primary voters who cast their ballots on the basis of foreign policy.

Should he run for the White House, Paul’s challenge is to convince GOP primary voters that his foreign policy views are in the mainstream of the party. He will also have to distance himself from certain statements his father, ex-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), made on the presidential campaign trail.

Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said drawing a contrast with Paul would be crucial to Cruz’s White House aspirations.

“Ted Cruz knows he needs to be not Rand Paul if he is to run successfully for president,” she said.

However, Cruz has yet to convince some crucial players that he shares Reagan’s foreign policy convictions and commitment to defending U.S. interests internationally.

“I haven’t seen him talk about our presence in Afghanistan; I haven’t seen talk about Syria in a serious way; I haven’t seen him talk about anything other than what he thinks are the hot-button electoral issues, i.e. Russia and Israel,” said Pletka. “I’d be delighted if Ted Cruz was a foreign policy Reaganite, but so far, I’m withholding judgment.”

An aide to Cruz argued that the senator has spoken out on Syria on several occasions, such as in August, when he called on President Obama to call Congress back from recess for a special session to discuss military intervention in the wake of a chemical attack.

Cruz staked out his foreign policy views in a major speech at the Heritage Foundation in September where he warned, “When America doesn’t lead, the world is a much, much more dangerous place.”

He says U.S. foreign policy should be pegged to three principles: protecting national security, speaking with moral clarity and always fighting to win.

“It was American exceptionalism that stood up to the Soviet Union and freed hundreds of millions from behind the Iron Curtain. So Putin is right to be concerned about American exceptionalism,” he said after Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized U.S. foreign policy in a New York Times op-ed.

Paul has taken a more skeptical view of the concept. He has called fellow Republicans who attempt to impose American values abroad as “neoisolationists.”

“The neocons are really neoisolationists,” he told The New York Times, “in the sense that they are so hardened — that everybody should behave like us, and everybody in the world should be in our image — that they discount the concept of looking at things realistically and negotiating with people who don’t have our point of view.”

Cruz and Paul have worked together on foreign policy issues. They teamed up to strip proposed International Monetary Fund reforms from a Ukraine aid package that passed Congress in March.

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None of them are worth a damn. Every pol in D.C. needs to be hung.....at the end of a blue or red rope :)

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

Doesn't Cruz have a Jewish background?

Lorie Meacham  posted on  2014-06-01   16:49:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lorie Meacham (#1)

I'm not sure, he's Canadian mystery-meat with a Cuban "flair".

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“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
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X-15  posted on  2014-06-01   16:51:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: X-15 (#0)

I've cut both beanie-babies off the fiscal teat here.

No dual-loyalists!

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-06-01   17:14:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: X-15 (#0)

“Since George W. Bush’s first term, there’s been a real push in terms of Republican base voters wanting candidates to be really strong on Israel. You almost can’t be too far to the right if you’re thinking about running for president. It’s the neocon vote,” Ullyot said.

That attitude is exactly why I will not be voting for the Republican Party nominee.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat

Southern Style  posted on  2014-06-01   22:34:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Lorie Meacham (#1)

Doesn't Cruz have a Jewish background?

Say what?

uh huh.

I get it now.

scrapper2  posted on  2014-06-02   4:04:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: X-15 (#0)

Paul told Klein, who is close to Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson, that he would vote to continue aid to Israel if the question came down to his vote.

So! Is there any real difference between Cruz and Paul?

DWornock  posted on  2014-06-02   20:29:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: DWornock (#6)

Is there any real difference between Cruz and Paul?

In short, NO.

Bagel-sniffers both.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-06-02   20:33:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: DWornock (#6)

So! Is there any real difference between Cruz and Paul?

Of course not. They're both a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world: the U.S. Senate. They always manage to come down on the right side of the accounting ledger when it comes to giving Zogbucks to Israhell. Say, doesn't the Senate have free bagels 'n lox to go with their coffee in the cloakrooms?? :)

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“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2014-06-02   20:38:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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