By Ted Belman
Greta van Susteren interviewed Sarah Palin yesterday following her return from India and Israel but before her speech in Naples. Greta grilled her on Obama’s policies on Libya, Israel and Obamacare. Greta was relentless and Palin handled everthing Greta threw at her. Palin didn’t duck and weave. She was firm and decisive and articulate. She took Greta on in many issues and dominated her.
I say this after I being dissappointed with her performance in India arguing her speech wasn’t polished and her answers to questions were not articulate.
In this interview, Palin articulated many of the policies and principles that would guide her presidency. The Palin Doctrine, if you will. What surprised me was how informed she was on the issues in Libya, given the fact that she has been very busy with her trip to India and Israel.
On the peace process, she said that the US should pressure the Palestinians instead of Israel and shouldn’t tell Israel where she can or cannot build.
I was impressed.
The VIDEO is 25 minutes long.
I like the way Jewish liberals trot out this canard in their attempts to diminish true American conservative supporters of Israel like Bush 43 and Sarah Palin when this has been Israeli government policy for decades going back to 1947, when Israel’s founders accepted a two state solution. It would have been a fait accompli if the Palis had accepted Israel, without any security restrictions on them.
Surrendering South Lebanon and Gaza were decisions by the Israeli government.
In my opinion Israel should have annnexed all the land it acquired in defending itself, which would have made the settlements more logical and “legal” and would have provided a more advantageous status quo because the Palis have no intentions of accepting any solution that includes Israel.
Withdrawing from Gaza and giving up the settlements there, rather than wiping out Hamas once and for all, was a mistake in my opinion because it leaves the impression that the same could done for the West Bank, and the Palis will obviously extend that to Jerusalem itself for their own self-serving purposes.
Lost in the nuclear holocaust horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the lesson that wiping out certain enemy assets so completely leads to long lasting peace and saves many lives on your own side, which should both be objectives of any military conflict.
Linda, need I point out that even the GOI is preferring a two state solution which in practice means autonomy only. Israelis prefer this to complete annexation which would be ccompanied with a demand for citizenship for the Arabs. What ever the GOI wants, she would support.
Q: How would you solve Israel/Palestinian conflict?
PALIN: A two-state solution is the solution. That needs to be done, and that will be a top agenda item under a McCain-Palin administration. Source: 2008 Vice Presidential debate against Joe Biden Oct 2, 2008. http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Sarah_Palin_Foreign_Policy.htm
A sincere, true ally that seeks Israel’s survival will fight with all their might against surrendering land vital to Israel’s defense-the Biblical, militarily strategic high ground of Judea and Samaria – half of Israel, to Jew-hating, barbaric enemies. Enabling the planned Second Holocaust.
Brilliant! As usual. Can’t wait for her to be Commander-in-Chief.
Sarah Palin is obviously held to a different standard – criticized for every picayune detail, regardless how unimportant, her unswerving common sense policy proposals described as “platitudes” – by the same people who supported or helped elect the supremely ignorant Barack Obama who has done more to diminish or destroy everything that made America great, in just two years, than any other President in history, making him a favorite of America-haters everywhere, including on this forum. Pretty amazing display of hypocrisy.
Gene Simmons has lived in America practically his entire life, admits it allowed him to reach the pinnacle of his profession, and then says he feels like an “outsider” in America.
Oy, veh! Allah help us fom such self-serving ingrates.
Some punk anti-Semitic commenter doesn’t want to buy music from an Israeli. Gene doesn’t need the likes of such cretins.
Palin in Israel
The interview actually had to have been AFTER she spoke in Naples since the interview was at 10:00 pm EST …