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July 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel
which is about $21,000 (£13,300), and compare that with the GDP per capital
just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more
like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in
economic vitality.”
Senior Palestinian figures reacted angrily.
“It is a racist statement and this man doesn’t realise that the
Palestinian economy cannot reach its potential because there is an Israeli
occupation,” said Saeb Erekat, the veteran Palestinian negotiator with
close ties with the US.
“It seems to me this man lacks information, knowledge, vision and
understanding of this region and its people. What this man is doing here is
just promoting extremism, violence and hatred, and this is absolutely
unacceptable.”
It would not have been Mr Romney’s intention to offend the Palestinian
leadership so gratuitously, with whom he will have to work were he to become
president.
Despite following the tradition of visiting American presidential candidates
by referring to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital he has been evasive about
whether he would move the American embassy there from its current base in
Tel Aviv, reflecting the international consensus that Jerusalem remains a
city contested by both Israel and the Palestinians.
Mr Romney arrived yesterday for the final leg of his tour in Poland, meeting
the prime minister, Donald Tusk, in Gdansk before delivering what is
expected to be a strident speech on the “values of liberty” at
Warsaw University.
Despite being accused of trying to rekindle the Cold War spirit by saying
earlier this year that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe”,
Mr Romney is expected to pledge to defend Nato’s eastern border even at the
risk of antagonising President Vladimir Putin. He has accused President
Obama of “abandoning Poland” by cancelling plans to build a
controversial missile shield there.
A member of Mr Romney’s foreign policy advisory team said the Republican
candidate would not be backing down and had been vindicated by ongoing
coolness from Moscow despite Mr Obama’s claim to have “reset”
relations between the powers.
Mr Romney’s aides yesterday desperately tried to dispel the impression that he
had intended to offend the Palestinians, saying his comments in Jerusalem
had been “mischaracterised”.
It did not help that Mr Romney’s figures were also way off the mark. Israel’s
per capita GDP stands at $31,000, while the figure for the Palestinians is
just over $1,500.
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