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Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Ambassador Gutman and the Obama Administration’s Hostility Toward IsraelAUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement: “Ambassador Gutman’s troubling statement is part of a pattern of hostility on the part of the Obama administration toward Israel. In the same week that Ambassador Gutman excused anti-Semitism because of Israel’s refusal to accommodate Palestinian demands, President Obama’s Secretary of Defense ranted that the Israelis must get back to the ‘d*** table’ for negotiations, and his Secretary of State insinuated that Israel’s democracy is less than viable because of gender-related debates between religious and secular...

As the Obama administration tries to bring Israel and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table during a week in which Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians will apply for formal statehood at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, Texas Gov. Rick Perry delivered remarks on the Middle East and Israel on Tuesday that rebuked the President’s handling of Israel and foreign policy strategy. Leading GOP presidential candidate Perry called Obama’s foreign policy in the Middle East “naive, arrogant, misguided and dangerous,” and expressed his indignation that “Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the...

you. Let me begin by thanking Dr. Solomon Frager and Aron Hirtz for helping us organize this press conference today. We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administration’s Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasn’t naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous. It must...

After devoting his first New York campaign trip to Donald Trump and Fashion Week fetes, 2012 presidential hopeful Rick Perry is getting down to business this time around. Perry is back in Manhattan this week, courting voters in the city's large Hispanic and Jewish communities — two typically Democratic voting blocs that the GOP hopes to woo away in 2012. The Texas Governor is hosting a rally with Israeli politicians and Jewish-American activists at the W Hotel tomorrow morning. The event is centered around President Obama's visit to the United Nations and the Palestinian application for statehood, expected to be...

A UN report concludes that the Israeli/Egyptian blockade of Gaza, and similar restrictions in the West Bank, has reduced Palestinian GDP by 30 percent and caused an unemployment rate of over 30 percent. While the blockade has been eased considerably in the West Bank, because the Palestinian government there has helped contain Palestinian terror groups, such is not the case in Gaza, where numerous terror groups continue to try, and occasionally succeed, making attacks on Israel and Egypt. While the UN calls for lifting the blockade, the UN offers no guarantee that the Palestinian terrorist attacks will stop. Thus Israel...