Source Note #30: Ron Paul: Israel created Hamas
Ron Paul: Israel created Hamas (C-SPAN, January 2009)
US Representative Ron Paul speaks out against the House’s Gaza Strip Resolution, which voiced the US’ support of Israel in the Gaza Strip conflict in early 2009.
Topic: Should the Obama administration continue to support Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Category: Institutional: Government
What is it? A video of Ron Paul’s speech to the House of Representatives
Publication Information: C-SPAN; January 9, 2009
Author: Congressman Ron Paul
Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6vMAoFwf4
Accessed: March 12, 2009
Support:
Congressman Ron Paul
Ron Paul spoke to the United States Congress regarding his opposition to the Gaza Strip Conflict Resolution.
Audience and Agenda:
Ron Paul is a congressman in the United States House of Representatives. According to his website, “Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.” He maintains the United States should be more concerned with securing its borders at home rather than waging wars abroad. This video of his speech against the Gaza Strip Conflict Resolution has nearly 169,000 views. YouTube itself has at least 80.6 million US visitors per month.
Usefulness:
Congressman Ron Paul suggests that the United States is to blame for the conflict in Gaza. Israel, he says, supported and encouraged Hamas’s development as a reaction to Yasser Arafat. The United States then encouraged Democratic elections in the area; as a result, Palestine elected Hamas. The bill was ultimately bassed 390-5. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the reactions of some United States members of Congress. Congressman Nick Rahall commented that “when these events occur, there’s almost a knee-jerk reaction of Congress that endorses 1,000 percent of what Israel is doing.”
Works cited:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054234.html
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