Rick Santorum gets it. For Israel to give up the land with the strongest Jewish roots going back thousands of years would be 33 times crazier than the USA giving back New Mexico and Texas to the Mexicans. Texas and New Mexico are just the occupied north bank of the Rio Grande won in a war. What’s the difference?
QUESTIONER: Do you think Israel should dismantle its settlements?
SANTORUM: No. The West Bank, is this part of Israel?
QUESTIONER: [inaudible] According to 48? [inaudible] […]
SANTORUM: How did we get New Mexico and Texas?
QUESTIONER: Through war.
SANTORUM: How did they get the West Bank? [inaudible] Through a war. Should we give Texas back to Mexico?
QUESTIONER: Well I don’t think you should recognize recent annexations.
SANTORUM: Oh, so it depends whether it’s recent or not? So we should have given New Mexico and Texas back 150 years go?
[…]The bottom line is that that is legitimately Israeli country. And they have a right to do within their country just like we have a right to do within our country. If they want to negotiate with Israelis, and all the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they’re not Palestinians. This is Israeli land.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uZJsq_hdlBU
h/t Yisrael Medad
