Lefty Alex Kane has a compilation of Eric Cantor's recent pronouncements on Israel. Cantor is in line to become House Majority Leader assuming that - as expected - the Republicans gain control of the House on Tuesday. I'll give you Cantor's positions without Kane's negative editorial comments.
Cantor “supported Israel’s handling of the eviction of two Arab families from a house in east Jerusalem.”
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In regards to Jerusalem as a whole, Cantor expressed anger when the White House condemned the announcement of the building of 1,600 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem last March. He wrote, “Could the White House truly be this offended by an Israeli decision to build 1,600 homes years from now in a part of its capital city that everyone understands will remain a part of Israel in any future peace agreement with the Palestinians?”
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After the flotilla [incident] on May 31, 2010, in which Israeli naval commandos rappelled onto the Turkish Mavi Marmara ship that was part of an effort to break the blockade of Gaza and ... nine people (including an American citizen) [were killed], Cantor “pressured President Barack Obama to veto any ‘biased’ U.N. resolutions in response to an Israeli military attack on a flotilla.”
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In conservative publications like the National Review, Cantor opines that “Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, last year best summed up the prevailing Palestinian culture by quoting from Hitler’s Mein Kampf: ‘If you want adults to be killers, teach the youth hate.’”
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Cantor and his House colleague Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) took to the pages of the Washington Times in January 2009 to defend the Israeli assault on Gaza....
Sounds good to me.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem
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