Boston, MA – Presidential Candidate Mit Romney Cites Hezbollah As A Model.

“PS I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW RUDY THREW THE GUY WITH THE DIRTY DISH RAG OUT OF THE MEETING WHICH HE CAME UNANNOUNCED. (TO THOSE THAT DO NOT RECALL ARAFAT YM”S WAS TOSSED BY RUDY WAY BEFORE 9/11.)”

It was a concert in the evening during the anniversary of theun celebration and every head of state came, and was invited to come. Giuliani international breached diplomatic protocol to curry favor with his freinds in flatbush.

Is this a man who “gets it?” This is a from a few weeks back –

Giuliani Calls for Increasing American Support for Fatah

By MARC SANTORA

Rudolph W. Giuliani addressed Israeli-Palestinian discord on Tuesday, saying it was pointless for the United States to negotiate with Hamas, the Islamic group that has seized control of the Gaza Strip, and that Washington should work with Egypt and Jordan to bolster Fatah and its control over the West Bank.

As he advocated active American engagement, Mr. Giuliani urged caution and broadly criticized the Clinton administration’s approach in the 1990s, trying to broker peace with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader.

“Let’s not become like starry romantics like we were with Arafat, where he was leading us down the primrose path and we were helping him get the Nobel Peace Prize,” Mr. Giuliani said in a speech here at Regent University, which Pat Robertson, the evangelist, founded.

Setting out a position that largely tracked Bush administration policy and the positions of Egypt, Israel and Jordan, Mr. Giuliani suggested that the best course was to bolster Fatah, which Mr. Arafat controlled until he died and is now run by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president

“Let’s see if we can’t get Jordan and Egypt to help us try and create something with Abbas in the West Bank,” Mr. Giuliani said.

Long a supporter of Israel, he expanded on his remarks later in a speech in Maryland to a Jewish organization. At Regent, Mr. Giuliani did not mention abortion or other divisive issues, focusing instead on leadership and national security. As a Republican who supports abortion rights, he has been trying to win over social conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, by emphasizing other issues, including keeping the nation safe.

He affirmed his commitment to keep American soldiers in Iraq, emphasized the danger Iran poses and, for the first time, distanced himself from certain interrogation methods that the Bush administration backs. He said he did not think that waterboarding, in which a detainee or prisoner is strapped with his feet above his head, gagged and made to think he is drowning, was necessary.

First used in the Spanish Inquisition, the method is widely considered torture by human rights groups. The procedure had been on a list of approved “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the United States on terror suspects, although the Central Intelligence Agency has left it off a proposal for an updated set of rules on permissible techniques. Mr. Giuliani, who did not directly answer the question when it came up at a recent Republican debate, told reporters at a news conference that information could be gathered without going to such extremes.

“I think you can do it without something like waterboarding,” he said after being pressed. He was quick to say he thought that interrogation needed to be aggressive, but likened what he meant to more traditional means of obtaining information.

“I think putting people under some degree of pressure is done all the time,” Mr. Giuliani said. “Police departments do it. I did it to get information from the Mafia,” a reference to his work as a federal prosecutor before he was elected mayor of New York.

Romney cited an unfortunate example. BUT… Hezbollah was smart in what they did. They DID get the support of the people by building hospitals , etc. gaining good PR around the world.
What he should have said was that a terrorist organization can get things done for their people , and we can learn from this isolated example. I think he WILL moderate and backtrack as the campaign wears on. Let’s see.

Rudy gets what exactly???
He is the one who said we should “bolster up fatah”

Rudy is Bush all over again.

Romney Comments Made Within Weeks of Saying Democrats:“Uncomfortable in Recognizing Evil in the World

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, in an article titled “Mitt Romney cited Hezbollah’s social network as a model for U.S. diplomacy,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported on recent comments by GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney that Hezbollah’s “kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world …” Today, the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) strongly criticized Mitt Romney for his praise of Hezbollah and released the following statement from Executive Director Ira N. Forman:

“It is the height of irony that, within weeks of saying Democrats are ‘uncomfortable in recognizing evil in the world,’ Governor Romney would make such ill-informed remarks that cite a terrorist organization as a model for U.S. diplomacy. Indeed, Mitt Romney’s naïve comments suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of the Middle East and geopolitical realities. Mitt Romney desperately wants to be President of the United States, but this type of comment clearly shows that he is not ready for prime time.

“Any candidate for President should know that Hezbollah’s social programs are inseparably tied to terrorism. The health clinics and schools praised by Romney have also been used as a cover for rockets launched at Israeli cities. Moreover, Hezbollah social activism has included paying “bonuses” for the murder of Israelis.”

Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah said in 2002 that, “Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America.” The following year he said: “Israel is our enemy. … Its destiny is manifested in our motto: ‘Death to Israel.’’’ [BBC Monitoring: Al-Manar, Sep. 27, 2002 (from CAMERA’s website); AIPAC Memo, 8/31/06]

The full quote from Romney, as reported in JTA: “’Did you notice in Lebanon what Hezbollah did?’ [Romney] said in remarks broadcast on C-Span and captured by Crooks and Liars, a liberal Web site. ‘Lebanon became a democracy some time ago and while their government was getting under way, Hezbollah went into southern Lebanon and provided health clinics to some of the people there, and schools. And they built their support there by having done so. That kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world and help people understand that our interest is an interest towards modernity and goodness and freedom for all people in the world. And so, I want to see America carry out that kind of health diplomacy.’”

hashem yerachem