Texas Governor Rick Perry slammed President Barack Obama’s ‘appeasement’ of Palestinians as dangerous and naive on Tuesday, in his first major foreign policy address since emerging as the top Republican White House hopeful.
Seizing on the diplomatic conflagration over UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, Mr Perry blasted Mr Obama for not being strong enough in his support of Israel and allowing the Palestinian bid to proceed.
‘We would not be here at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama policy in the Middle East wasn’t naive, arrogant, misguided and dangerous,’ Mr Perry told pro-Israel activists in New York.
‘The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult,’ he said.
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