A top foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended statements the Republican presidential candidate made in Israel about the cultural differences between Israelis and Palestinians.
“How has terrorism flourished in certain parts of Palestinian society?” Dan Senor asked during an interview Wednesday with NPR’s Audie Cornish on All Things Considered. “That is a question we should be asking about certain leaders and certain individuals within the Palestinian territory who glorify violence, who encourage violence, who celebrate terrorists, who name stadiums and streets and monuments after suicide bombers as opposed to naming streets after successful entrepreneurs.”
While in Jerusalem this week, Romney was accused of racism by a top Palestinian official for his statement about Israel’s culture and what Romney called a “dramatic, stark difference in economic vitality” compared to that of the Palestinians.
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