Rand introduces bill to defund Palestinian foreign aid

[Feeding the Abscess]

I'm sure he would support it. Ron was for less spending and less intervention overseas. He wasn't anti Israel. This is a bill that cuts spending and reduces our involvement overseas.

http://antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=14027

In addition, there was a vote in 2010 or so that came up for - I believe - ending foreign aid to a country for some reason. If I remember correctly, Ron opposed it and made a statement on the floor regarding the matter, saying that while ending foreign aid is good, threatening to pull aid unless condition x is met is intervention and should be opposed.

It's not clear that Ron would support this bill. It's almost safe to say he'd oppose it.

http://antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=11807

Not the issue I was referencing, but more info on Ron's position:

A few months back, I wrote back-to-back weekly messages regarding globalism and isolationism. In writing those columns, I focused on the fact that our nation's interventionist foreign policy was precisely what was isolating us from other countries.

Turkey's recall of their U.S. ambassador in the wake of last week's resolution, passed in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in condemnation of Turkey, is a perfect example of what I wrote in those columns, as well as what I have been saying for years.

The House has passed similar resolutions for years, praising some foreign countries or political groups while chastising others. It is my policy to vote against resolutions of this sort whenever they have the impact of placing our country in the middle of an internal political problem of some other nation, or involving us in some regional conflict. In fact, this is almost always the specific intent of resolutions of this sort. Often, I am the only Member of Congress to vote against these resolutions.

Some have questioned these votes, arguing that they are meaningless statements of opinion. However, I have always been more skeptical, and careful, about voting for these measures. Last week's reaction by Turkey, a long term ally and NATO member, shows that Congress should be a lot more restrained in sticking our government's nose into the affairs of other nations.