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2012 Presidential Candidates' Views on the Middle EastGary JohnsonThoughts on IsraelJohnson advocates that the U.S. should reduce or eliminate foreign aid to Israel because “I think it’s a mistake that we [the U.S.] know what’s in Israel’s best interest—they do and they need to be left to decide that and determine that,” he told a Fox news correspondent in May 2011. “Israel is a military ally, will remain a military ally, that it’s crucial for us to maintain those ties.” I’ve stood on top of the Golan Heights, something
that was secured after 1967, when they [Arab armies] were literally
shelling Israel. They [Israel] had to take that territory; either take
that territory or be bombed.” “I think that we really do have a vested interest
in Israel and that we shouldn’t walk away from that interest.” |
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