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Former staffer: Ron Paul ‘wishes the Israeli state did not exist’

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By Megan Carpentier
Monday, December 26, 2011

Former Ron Paul campaign and Congressional staffer Eric Dondero issued a statement to Right Wing News today denying that his former boss is racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic as part of a larger attack on what Dondero terms Paul’s “isolationism” and his position on the war in Afghanistan and the state of Israel.

Though Dondero stresses that Paul isn’t an anti-Semite, referring to everything from his own Jewish ancestry to Paul’s political courtship of “a few Jews” in Paul’s Congressional district as evidence, Dondero does state unequivocally that Paul is opposed to the existence of the state of Israel.

He is however, most certainly Anti-Israel, and Anti-Israeli in general. He wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all. He expressed this to me numerous times in our private conversations. His view is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs.

But despite Dondero’s insistence that Paul is not anti-Semitic, he confirms a local paper’s account of a opponent’s press conference to discuss Paul’s supposed anti-Semitism, in which Dondero was pressed to attend “dressed in a Jewish yarlmuke [sic], and other Jewish adornments.” And, perhaps most problematically, Dondero recounts conversations in which Paul asserted that “the United States had [no] business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWI”‘ because “‘saving the Jews’ was absolutely none of our business.”

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95 comments // Former staffer: Ron Paul ‘wishes the Israeli state did not exist’

  • freecrack
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      freecrack  

    • oh please, it is just as retarded from this side of the aisle as it is from the other side of the asile.it seems more about people desperate to focus attention on jews and israel more than anything else, using paul as the means to that end.

      he isnt an antisemite, but a retarded libertarian.they dont like anything, not just one thing

    • 5 months ago
  • dudefromtherock
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      dudefromtherock  

    • Sock puppets for all sides of the political spectrum...what a collosal waste of time. Get this into your propaganda ridden minds...no politician will ever care about your well being.

    • 5 months ago
  • Nebbish
  • dudefromtherock
  • BoichikSuperJew
  • dudefromtherock
  • TaGgInUrBlOcKuP
  • CrackpotRonPaulStillSucksBigtime
  • dudefromtherock
  • hempamerica
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      hempamerica  

    • What a terrible article, not to mentioned very biased and unfactual. Has the writer ever listened to Ron Paul? if so, they would know this is NOT TRUE, what Mr. Paul is against, is Israel's influence in our foreign policy! He believes Israel has a right to exist as much as Palestine does which makes him in some eyes, "anti-israel", what a bunch of bs this article is!

    • 5 months ago
  • wolfess
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      wolfess  

    • I just love it when a load of trolls show up on a post -- they keep the conversation lively, and it allows ME to see how much smarter I am, and THAT is worth all the horse shit I have to dig through to find the 'pony' in their comments :-)!!!!

    • 5 months ago
  • misfit20
  • wolfess
  • CarlosBobthe3rd
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  • dudefromtherock
  • KB723
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  
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    • Politicians are full of shit, so too are former staffers. I wouldn't put much stock in what some angry ex-employee says and I wouldn't put much stock in what his former employer says either.

      Peter Garret, former singer of Midnight Oil, protested against mining uranium, but once elected to the Australian Labor Party he stated his support for the resumption of mining uranium. See how ones values can be completely abandoned to tow the party line. Any principles are quickly gone with enough persuasion, it's simple social dynamics. Now Olympic Dam uranium mine is set to become the largest in the world, with Australia to commence uranium exports to India, a country who's government refuses to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

      Far too many of us are susceptible to the influence of our peers. The urge to conform to a group overrides simple logic and even compassion. Only a small minority of people will stand against the group mentality that dominates human interaction. You can subvert your own belief system and morals using a few psychological tricks. I tried this experiment on myself and reduced my principles and values to that of a cowardly piece of shit within a very short time. Fortunately I prepared a number of triggers to reactivate the parts of my brain that I shut down. I found the whole process a rather traumatic experience, but quite enlightening. The processes of reawakening my moral compass was quite exhilarating and hopefully reinforced my values so that they are not so easily lead astray by the constant bombardment of propaganda we face on a daily basis. Reverse PsyOps, far better than sleep walking or blind conformity. The ease of planting suggestions and ideas into the minds of others is a frighteningly easy task to accomplish. Remember how I told you I was going to do this, remember they KEY words I planted in your head.

    • 5 months ago
  • Crauly_Fingers
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      Crauly_Fingers  

    • Wow! RP damn well knows we never fought Hitler in WWI. We fought him in WWII in response to him declaring war on us and repeatedly sinking our supply ships headed to Britain.The concentration camps weren't discovered until the very end of the war.Nobody knew.

      It's morally wrong to support a country that stole it's land from the weak, is engaged in ethnic cleansing and is the curator of the worlds largest prison....the Palestinian territory.But we do, originally because of fables and mythologies.

      No foreign aid to anyone including the enemies of Israel like Saudi Arabia, Egypt Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. which we give far more $ to is not anti-Semitic, it's a moral issue.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • wally60
  • circlesquared
  • freecrack
  • Crauly_Fingers
  • freecrack
  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • Smashing F***ing Post, I Thank all you folks who commented here, I do not support either of our Corrupt Parties and wonder why anyone would... Believe me I could give a Flying Fart about Ron Paul as well as Barack Obama....

    • 5 months ago
  • bailey78
  • dudefromtherock
  • KB723
  • dudefromtherock
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      dudefromtherock  
    • KB723:

      They all serve their corporate masters...each and every one. I wonder where that woman is today...the close up shot of the middle aged lady crying during Obama's "yes we can" spiel. Only a fool puts his trust in a politician.

    • 5 months ago
  • dudefromtherock
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  • circlesquared
  • KB723
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  
    • KB723:

      trying to shake people awake to realize it's gonna take more than votes to get our planet back...politicians no matter their goal are already at odds with people's best interest as they have chosen a path that allows them to force their beliefs on others...the people that have a desire to lead never should.

    • 5 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
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      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • i am opposed to ron paul, and every other career politician. but i also am opposed to the isreali state, which is nothing more than the bully of the middle east the corporations of the world couldnt let the USA be, in public at least. humankind is what matters, not nations, not borders.

    • 5 months ago
  • circlesquared
  • Milieu
  • Judgian12365
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      Judgian12365  

    • Ron Paul has already shown himself to be against black people, hispanic people, poor people, female people, and young people.
      Jewish people could never have been all that very far behind.

    • 5 months ago
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  • theknopfknows
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • theknopfknows:

      Was it you who had the nerve to down vote all the comments you did not agree with??? Obviously it was many more than yourself as you are only able to vote a comment up or down, unless you have other Socks... What's the point of BOXING GLOVES???

      Is Violence your last answer when you have none to begin with???

    • 5 months ago
  • theknopfknows
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    • WHAT A LOT OF BULLSHIT!.
      RON PAUL WANTS TO SEPARATE MILITARY FROM CORPORATE RULE,
      AND FROM YOUR TAXES:
      NOTHING TO DO WITH JEW HATRED IT`S MATTER OF ECONOMY& COMMON SENSE: I AM A CHILD OF CAMP SURVIVORS BORN IN EUROPE LATE 1940s, I KNOW ANT-ISRAEL!! I KNOW WHEN SOMEONE HATES ME; I KNOW THAT RON PAUL IS NOT AN ISRAEL HATER OR JEW HATER NOT AT ALL:
      IT`S MATTER OF FOREIGN POLICY EQUALITY:
      HE IS A DOCTOR WHO HATES VIOLENCE AND WAR:
      SO WAKE UP TO A TRUE AMERICAN WHO HAS YOU AND ME IN MIND!

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • jubal
  • theknopfknows
  • theknopfknows
  • KB723
  • Judgian12365
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      Judgian12365  
    • theknopfknows:

      "RON PAUL WANTS TO SEPARATE MILITARY FROM CORPORATE RULE,
      AND FROM YOUR TAXES"
      And where, might i ask, might such a military gets its money.
      We either have a civilian taxpayer-funded government military, or else we have a corporate for-profit industrial military.
      There is no third way.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • Boo F***ing Hooo!!!! The Ron Paul believers have dropped by my page to vote everyone Down, Grow up Folks Ron Paul has no backing of his party and as hard as it is to believe, He or any other CrackerJack Republican cannot beat Barack Obama!!! =)

    • 5 months ago
  • jubal
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • KB723:

      Obama certainly has not lived up to many of his campaign promises, and he also is the cherry picked darling of the banking industry, if he weren't they would have been fielding their own REPUG candidate.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • KB723
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    • jubal:

      Lets just call them 'Campaign Slogans' I am no more Happy to vote for BO than any other Rethug,,, You know to be Honest I really just don't give a Sh*t any longer, the American way of life has ended!!! Be ready to die for your last causes people, and by that I mean just the ability to feed and clothe your family...

    • 5 months ago
  • Judgian12365
  • misfit20
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Ron Paul is an antisemitic scum bag that has been pandering to white supremacists, neo nazis and other fellow scum bags for decades.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • BCDel89
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      BCDel89  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-Fc4rx4As

      Ironically, there is actually a robust debate in Israel on the very topics that Ron Paul champions. Ron Paul is not anti-Israel. Hell, he supported the Osirak strike when Reagan didn't. He is pro-America and pro-constitution. Terms like "anti-semite" and "anti-Israel" are inherently fallacious and are becoming pathetically predictable in their usage. Ron Paul threatens too many illegitimate foreign and special interests on the Left and Right. That's what is meant by the term "anti-israel".

      These assertions are delusional at best. Do your research people it's not that hard.

    • 5 months ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Also lets cut to the chase, shall we? The true reason why the US blindly follows Israel into the abyss of political terrorist empire is to protect the nukes there. One nuke launched by Israel would ignite WWIII and limited nuclear strikes would ensue. Russia and China would unite against the US, UK and EU, over what? OIL!!!! and WATER!!!!

      This is the game of risk with real human beings lives at stake. The innocents of the world being trampled to satisfy the bloodthirsty lust for power.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • Judgian12365
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      Judgian12365  
    • KB723:

      "those nukes can also be launched against or at us"
      That's not actually technically true.
      There is no country in the Near East, Middle East or West Asia with the technological capability to reach North America with any of their long-range weapons.
      Israel, like Iran. poses a regional security threat only.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • Judgian12365
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      Judgian12365  
    • KB723:

      "Why the Hell should we care"
      Because very nearly every single one of the reactionary regressive neoconservative teabagging party "Republican" candidates for Commander in Chief of the most powerful armed military fighting force this world have ever known have expressed their desire to invade a nuclearly-armed Iran, and/or to bomb a nuclear iran along with a nuclearly-armed israel.
      And then we're off to the races: World War III; ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Nxt stop: mutually assured destruction (an apt acronym is ever there was one) and a thousand years of inhospitable uninhabitable thermonuclear winter.
      THAT, in so many words, is why we should care.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • Judgian12365
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    • KB723:

      I'm not saying that they have nuclear weapons now.
      What i'm saying is that by the time that we have the potential to elect our next "Republican" President in January 2017, Iran WILL have nuclear weapon.
      There is a high probability that there will be a nuclearly armed iran by the time President Obama begins his second term in January of 2013.

    • 5 months ago
  • misfit20
  • Judgian12365
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    • misfit20:

      The Faux "News" channel Network is the one pushing for the invasion of iran.
      It is Faux "News" are the ones who are largely responsible for introducing the reactionary regressive neoconservative Teabagging Party "Republican GOP candidates for the Presidency (several of which also just so happen to be "former" employees of the Murdoch multimedia empire) to the militant reactionary ideology of expending American lives in pursuit of the "we got ours, but you can't have yours" foreign policy toward Iran's nuclear weapons program.
      The fact that Iran will have a nuclear weapon well within the next decade or less is accepted by the experts in the field of international relations, given the fact that there is very little that any other country can conceivably do to stop them.
      And many of the foreign policy experts doubt whether it would be justifiable TO stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, especially in light of the threat of attack that they now face from a nuclearly-armed and militantly, even violently, anti-muslim and anti-arab American-backed Israeli theocracy.

    • 5 months ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • You gotta ask yourself, why would so many establishment republicans and others attack Ron Paul every single day and put so much effort into discrediting the man. It's as obvious as the nose on our faces, they are terrified of Ron Paul. Because he might actually rain on their corruption parade.

      If austerity in the US is inevitable, preferably it will be austere for those who screwed up the world's economies in the first place...the billionaire gamblers on Wall Street. Ron Paul would take these MF'rs on.

    • 5 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • jubal:

      The same reason Buckley ran many of these WingNutz out in the 60s, they are haters.

      Ask the Republic Syndicate member who wrote this.

      "The Palinization of the GOP

      Republicans aren’t really stupid, of course, and Begala acknowledges this. But, as he also pointed out, the conservative brain trust once led by William F. Buckley has been supplanted by talk radio hosts who love to quote Buckley (and boast of his friendship) but who do not share the man’s pedigree or his nimble mind. Moreover, where Buckley tried to rid the GOP of fringe elements, notably the John Birch Society, today’s conservatives have let them back in. The 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference was co-sponsored by the Birchers."

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-palinization-of-the-gop/2011/11/18/gI...

    • 5 months ago
  • Judgian12365
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      Judgian12365  
    • jubal:

      "Ron Paul would take...the billionaire gamblers on Wall Street"
      WRONG
      Ron Paul is a Teabagging Party "Republican"
      The Teabagging Party, like its multimedia mouthpiece the Faux "News" Channel Network, is wholly owned and operated by corporate industrial multi-billionaires (not all of them American, i might add)
      So Ron Paul opposing the interests of Billionaires would be wroking against his own best interests.
      Which is probably why he opposes such things as Environmental Protection and Occupational Health and Safety regulations, which, in spite of saving tens of millions of lives daily, Industrial corporations complain decrease their unprecedented multi-billion-dollar profits.
      If Ron Paul had any interest in opposing multi-billionaire for-profit corporate industries, then he would not be pledging to deregulate them, just as the unelected Dick Cheney Regime did for nearly a decade.

    • 5 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
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    • jubal:

      another sucker is born every minute. it seems you have fallen for the pantomime that is politics. why would they act afraid? to set up a dichotomy, an us vs them as they always do, from the big ones, ie demagogues vs repugs to the little ones, within each party. how you and others fall for it time and time again is beyond me.

    • 5 months ago
  • fiberbundle
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      fiberbundle  
    • jubal:

      Would you consider the explanation that Ron Paul is just an easy target?A contender sometimes tunes up by staging a few fights with a polooka before he has a title fight.

    • 5 months ago
  • misfit20
  • MSII
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      MSII  

    • I think the Jewish people, like the Kurdish people btw, deserved, and do deserve a homeland. If you look deeply into the history of just how Israel was created (there was a excellent documentary on it a number of years ago on PBS) there were some very massive, serious mistakes in how this all was done, that has been haunting the world to this day. Isreal exists and is maintained so largely by the us's involvement it's shameful that the us doesn't use that power to push -hard- for a solution to be finally implemented to this horrible on-going situation between the Israeli's and Palestinians. As far as Ron Paul goes, he doesn't interest me, he's too far in the crazy-lands. He's only of interest at all as far as will, he or won't he try running as a 3rd party candidate when he finally admits to himself that the wrong-wingers won't have him as their candidate. I have no idea if he actually said any of these things attributed to him, or if it's just more of the same type of dirty tricks I expect from that p.o.s shat up by hell itself namely Karl Rove.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • wolfess
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      wolfess  

    • Poor little troll ... he just really needs to be satisfied being in congress until the Alzheimer's takes over completely. There is no way he is fit to serve as president ... we think the country has suffered under 3 years of Obama, having Paul as president would usher in hell on earth! Go home Ronnie boy -- you don't have the cajones to get this done.

      Pwr 2 the 99%! GUILLOTINE the 1% and their political PARASITES!

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • wolfess
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      wolfess  
    • KB723:

      OMGoddess! You WOULD have to bring that up -- you know this means the reptards are doing at least ONE thing right, don't you?
      Pwr 2 the 99%! GUILLOTINE the 1% and their political PARASITES!

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
  • MotherForTruth
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  • MotherForTruth
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  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • So let's just make it all about Jews and Israel instead of all about Americans and an American election.

      And let's keep giving Israel $30 billion dollars per year while the IDF murders whomever they want whenever they want.

      Meanwhile, Ron Paul supports Israel, probably just like he supports Canada but that the US government should not be involved with them.

      Ron Paul Tells Newsmax He Supports Israel

      http://www.newsmax.com/DougWead/Paul-Israel-Romney-Gingrich/2011/12/08/id/420408

      Oh, and I love how the former staffer drags in WW2 and "saving the Jews," as if that's why the US entered into WW2.

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
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    • maasanova:

      What I found odd about this is , it states: “the United States had [no] business getting involved in fighting Hitler in WWI”

      We did not fight Hitler in WWI!!!!

    • 5 months ago
  • maasanova
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  • Itsbatman_Durr
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    • maasanova:

      who cares about america. america is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. its about the world now, and humankind, not borders and patriotism, the last refuge of the retarded. i for one love watching the death throes of the global monster that is corporate america, and cannot wait to see the white house burn, figuratively speaking, probably.

    • 5 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
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  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • Itsbatman_Durr:

      Actually, communism and political Zionism won WW2, leading to Communist control (aka banker hegemony) of much of Eastern Europe and the founding of the Jewish State of Israel (on top of Palestine).

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
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      KB723  

    • Former staffer: Ron Paul ‘wishes the Israeli state did not exist’

      "Ouch!!! That's gonna Hurt Ron Paul in the worst way!!!"

    • 5 months ago
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