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Governor and Republican Presidential nominee, Rick Perry, is a racist and discriminates against the Palestinians in his discussions and dealings with the Middle East Conflict. The question, however, is why?


In the attached video above, we hear Perry actually say the following: "The Obama Policy of moral equivalency of giving equal standing to the grievances of Israeli's and Palestinians...is a very dangerous insult." The very fact he says the grievances of one group are superior to another and that they should be given preferential treatment by the US is de facto racism and de facto discrimination. He carries it as far as to call it a "dangerous insult" to say the two humans are equals.

In response to the Palestinian decision to seek statehood via the United Nations, Perry calls Obama's Middle East policy "appeasement" for "encouraging such an ominous act in bad faith." He argues Obama's policy is naive, uninformed, arrogant, and dangerous, yet, he never tells us why he believes in such. After listening to these words, I can't help but chuckle because if you describe someone using such terms, you would think all of your statements made it clear these terms do not apply to you. However, Perry clearly has no clue what appeasement truly means. Appeasement refers to diplomatic policies that make concessions to avoid war. What concessions does the US have to make to avoid war? What concessions has the US made recently or ever to the Palestinians? Obama has been going around trying to persuade people into voting against the Palestinian state, not for it. So who exactly is Obama appeasing? The Palestinians? No, Israel? Exactly, because Obama has definitely not acted in a way that favors the Palestinians by any means, and he surely isn't giving them anything in exchange for no war.

However, the clear expression of Perry's ignorance and that of his audience comes from his statement that a state can't be founded by the UN. He obviously doesn't know how Israel was founded in 1948, does he? I actually truly doubt it. In listening to him discuss this issue, it is clear he knows absolutely nothing on the factual subject matter. This is an example of American fascism. Perry either knows the truth and is lying because he knows his audience doesn't know the subject or he has received and learned such bad information that he, as a Governor, does not know the basic facts. It is a cycle of falsehoods being repeated so often and so adamantly, they become facts. Perry talks about the Palestinians as terrorists and people accept this because this is hammered and repeated in the media and by our politicians so often that  nobody questions it. At the same time, Israel's war and human rights crimes are not discussed or mentioned. Often our media and politicians will go out of their way to defend Israel even when she commits heinous crimes. The American public never gets an accurate portrayal of what is going on. They get the version of the story those in power want them to, and this leads them to blindly support horrific foreign policy decisions made by the US government. And after being labeled and universally accepted as a terrorist, to dare agree or even reach out to the Palestinians is treated as conspiring to commit terrorism. It is by this manner, the Palestinian voice is never heard and US policy makers do as they please while misleading the uninformed public.

In the video, Perry is seen openly recognizing Israel as having a right to continue to kick Palestinians out of their homes and land so they can build "Jewish Only" settlements in their place. Only a racist thinks it is okay to kick a person out of their house because they are the wrong ethnicity and that only people of a certain ethnicity may live there. And this is the very definition of discrimination. 

Perry also supports sanctioning the Palestinian Authority if they go forward with the UN vote. He even believes, the US should threaten to withhold US financial support to the UN if they allow the vote to happen. In other words, he hates the Palestinians so much, he is willing to sacrifice the livelihood of tens of millions of people that depend on UN assistance to survive just so he could put the already 45% of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and 80% of those in Gaza living under the international poverty line in an even harder situation. Or, then again, Perry might just be that clueless.

Perry says his Christian Evangelical faith guides how he handles the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. He says "I, as a Christian, have a clear directive to support Israel." He continues, that from his "perspective, it’s pretty easy. Both as an American and a Christian, I am going to stand with Israel." 

Cenk Uyger from The Young Turks explains Perry's religious lust for Israel in the video below. In essence, Perry and the approximately 55 million American Christian Evangelicals believe the land of Palestine must be completely ethnically cleansed of all races of human beings other than the Jewish race. After this happens, Christ will return to Earth. The Jews are then confronted with the decision of either converting to Christianity or burning in hell, and the Evangelicals and the converted Jews live happily ever after. In other words, they want Armageddon to occur.

Earlier in June, when the flotilla's filled with humanitarian aid were sailing for Gaza, Perry called on the Justice Department to criminally charge all people involved in delivering aid to the Palestinians via this manner. The following are a few quotes of his surrounding the whole debacle:
  • "As an American citizen and governor of one of its largest states, I write to applaud your recent efforts to warn and discourage those who have supported or plan to support a flotilla intended to interfere with Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip"
  • "More importantly, I write to encourage you to aggressively pursue all available legal remedies to enjoin and prevent these illegal actions, and to prosecute any who may elect to engage in them in spite of your preemptive efforts."
Perry addresses the Palestinians as a sub-species. Their ambitions, rights, and dignity are so secondary to others, Perry doesn't even mention or acknowledge they have them. To Perry, as long as they have enough food to stay alive, then they are fine. Who cares that Israel has literally built a wall that encloses them from the entire world. Who cares that one family has their house bulldozed by the Israeli Defense Forces so a Jewish immigrant can build a new home in its place. Who cares if the Palestinian children are suffering from chronic malnutrition. Who cares when Israel kills Palestinians at will. Apartheid is cool and the good idea to those in the Evangelical Christian community. It was supported by their first political leader, Ronald Reagan, in the case of South Africa; so supporting it here is merely a favorite past time.

So is Christianity the driving force behind Rick Perry's racism towards the Palestinians?

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