Complete raw video of address at the Republican Jewish Coalition Summer Bash in L.A.- with speech transcript highlights.
Speaker Gingrich says Obama Administration's pro-"Palestinian-ism" is endemic of their skewed, ethical compass which facilitates, rather than thwarts, political Islamism's conquest of free-people around the world from the Muslim world, to Israel and America.
Transcript excerpts:
"Thank you for the
opportunity to be with you this evening. As we gather this evening,
America is in the midst of an economic crisis.
More Americans are without jobs, and for longer periods of time, than at any time in our history since the Great Depression.
I am running for President to lead a movement of Americans who will insist on changing Washington so we can renew America.
To
do this, we must insist on dramatic and bold changes in Washington,
repeal policies that are killing jobs and stifling growth, and enact
policies that will create jobs and prosperity. There is no more
important task for the next president.
This is why I was so happy to accept your invitation to be here tonight." . . .
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"Indeed,
both Israel and America are at a dangerous crossroads in which the
survival of Israel and the safety of the United States both hang in the
balance.
While the United States and her allies have won
important victories in the war on terrorism, it is impossible to look at
the totality of the world ten years after 9/11 and conclude that we are
on the winning path, or that the world is a safer place.
Today
the greatest obstacle toward achieving a real and lasting peace is not
the strength of the enemy or the unwillingness of Israel to make great
sacrifices for the sake of peace, but an inability on the part of the
Obama Administration and certain other world leaders to tell the truth
about terrorism, be honest about the publicly stated goals of our common
enemies, and devise policies appropriate to an honest accounting of
reality.
Recall that during Congressional testimony last year,
Attorney General Holder was repeatedly asked and yet could not bring
himself to say that the ideology of radical Islamism plays a role in
motivating Islamic terrorists to carry out their attacks.
Meanwhile,
we must readily see the President's policies for what they are: the
dangerous accommodation of Middle East dictators, and worse, the
accommodation of terrorist groups like Hamas, whose ideology virulently
opposes freedom, compromise, and peace, and who view such accommodation
as a weakening of U.S. resolve and commitment to Israel's security.
The
decision to adopt a policy of accommodation, using the political
objectives and code-words of those who wish to drive Israel into the
sea, affirms the administration's radicalism in its headlong flight from
the legacy of U.S. Presidents from Truman to Bush -- and is leading
Israel and the Western democracies toward ever increasing danger.
President
Obama's focus on Israel as the obstacle to peace is particularly
disturbing considering the existence of a true threat to the peace of
the world, and that is the threat from Iran.
What then should America do in the face of these facts?
We
first need to acknowledge that 20 years of trying to negotiate peace
with evil regimes and organizations dedicated to the destruction of
Israel — and in many cases our own destruction — has been a failure, and
the time has come to clearly and decisively take the offensive against
them.
This begins with a firm and consistent commitment by the
United States -- in the Reagan tradition -- to speak plainly and
truthfully about the nature of our enemies.
There are nine specific policy proposals I would like to leave with you tonight. . . .
My
campaign website newt.org contains a detailed document outlining the
other changes that will be necessary to transform the State Department's
historic aversion to moral clarity about the difference between
terrorism and civilization, which have weakened both the United States
and Israel.
... We know that if the forces of terrorism could eliminate Israel today, they would turn toward America tomorrow.
That
is why we must reverse the Obama Administration's dangerous policies of
incoherence and accommodation and implement instead a foreign policy
that is clear about the evil that we face and committed to the actions
necessary to overcome it.
America is still the last best hope of mankind on earth."
"The
time has come to reaffirm America's commitment to freedom and the rule
of law; to stand firmly and courageously against terrorism and evil
organizations and dictatorships. It is time to stand firmly with our
friends.
Together those of us who believe in freedom will defeat tyranny for the fourth time in a century.
This is our duty. This is our generation's rendezvous with destiny. Thank you!"
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