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I’ve seen many interviews with Governor Sarah Palin, but to me, she struck a chord in this Greta interview for her pro-Israel stance.

I’ve seen some Republicans and Democrats claim to be pro-Israel, yet become wishy-washy when it comes to negotiations with the Palestinians.

Palin instead said the Palestinians should stop the provocation and attacks on Israelis. She said if she were president, contrary to Obama, she would stay out of Israel’s way regarding settlements in the West Bank, and take a harder line with Palestinians.

Via Politico:

“President Obama was inappropriate to intervene in a zoning issue in Israel,” she said, referring to settlement building on the West Bank. “Let Israel decide their zoning issues themselves.”

Palin said the current administration concedes too much to Palestinians.

“Why is it in that the past, too often, the U.S. government has told Israel that they’re the ones, the Jewish community, that they need to back up, they need to back off or there will never be peace,” she said. “Why aren’t we putting our foot down with the other side and telling the Palestinians, If you’re serious about peace, quit the shellacking and the shelling. Quit the bombing of innocent Israelis.”

This is why the establishment fears her.

Speaking of the establishment, please check out my friend Sheya’s post about “Why The Establishment Doesn’t Want Palin To Run.”

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Senator Rand Paul made news a few days ago when he indicated that he may be interested in a run, if his father Rep. Ron Paul, decides not to run for president in 2012.

At the time, Paul said that he wants the Tea Party to be represented in the 2012 race. Have their voice heard on economics, primarily the deficit and smaller, less intrusive government.

Today, the Kentucky Senator is in the news again, but he also made another comment that indicates he may be serious about this.

Again, I assert that Paul, if he does run, it may be just to get the conversation and debate going on economics with the other candidates. Almost like many think if former UN Ambassador John Bolton were to enter the 2012 race, it’s to get national security and foreign policy debated.

Via Courier-Journal:

Rand Paul has said that he would not run if his father does. Ron Paul, who would be 77 years old at the time of next year’s election, has not said if he will mount a campaign.

On WHAS, Rand Paul said that if his father doesn’t run “then I think there are options open and we will explore those options.”

After speaking to the Louisville Rotary Club, Paul said it’s more than likely that a Paul will be on the 2012 ballot. He stressed that his father has not made up his mind about a presidential run.

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The Wisconsin Court of Appeals declined on Thursday to rule on a Dane County judge’s order stopping the publication of a controversial union law passed by the Legislature earlier this month. The case will now be decided by the state Supreme Court.

More from Fox News:

A Wisconsin appeals court says the state Supreme Court should decide whether a law that takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers should be allowed to take effect.

A majority of the seven-member Supreme Court must agree to take it or it would remain in the appeals court.

The 4th District Court of Appeals said Thursday it is appropriate for the state’s highest court to take the case because it presents significant issues that are likely to end up before the Supreme Court anyhow.

A Dane County judge issued an order last week preventing Secretary of State Doug La Follette from publishing the law, saying Republicans violated the state open meetings law when passing it.

A couple of days ago, Governor Walker expressed confidence: “It’s pretty clear the law is on our side.”

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According to Washington Post, Senator Jim DeMint has no interest in running for president in 2012. Rather, he wants to stay in the Senate, enact conservative change in the upcoming election.

Look at 2010. DeMint’s endorsement and his Conservatives Fund brought us Senators Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and Marco Rubio. Excellent and principled senators. The next election, we definitely need more of these types of senators to finally get a majority.

If you think about it, Senator DeMint will also play a key role in 2012. He can be the kingmaker. There are very few people in Washington that garners the respect and admiration of conservatives and Tea Party members. You can bet that there will be heavy correspondence among 2012 candidates to get his endorsement.

More from The Fix:

“He’s said all along that he isn’t running for President and his role in the primary is to encourage the candidates to embrace conservative principles,” said Matt Hoskins, spokesman for the Senate Conservatives Fund, DeMint’s political action committee.

“At the end of the day he believes he can do more to change America by continuing to change the U.S. Senate,” said a source familiar with DeMint’s thinking. “He doesn’t wake up everyday with a burning desire to be the commander-in-chief [and] he knows without a deep burning desire to be president it is near impossible to successfully run for the job.”

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Senator Marco Rubio came out in total support for Israel and its right to defend itself.

In Jerusalem, Palestinian terrorists planted a bomb in a bag that exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish district of Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring at least 30 people.

Rubio said America has an obligation to be by Israel’s side.

He released this statement:

“The bombing in Jerusalem is another tragic reminder of the persistent threats to Israel’s security. I condemn this murderous act in the strongest terms and pray for the victims, their families and the entire state of Israel that mourns.

“As long as terrorists reject Israel’s right to exist and deploy these types of heinous acts, there cannot be lasting peace in the region. America has a responsibility to stand with Israel and support its right to protect the Israeli people. We must also insist that the onus for change to achieve a two-state solution be on rejecting violence and accepting Israel’s existence.”

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Representative Michele Bachmann seems to be interested in entering the 2012 race.

My opinion? The more the merrier. I want a vigorous debate in 2012, with some of our best people. The problems this country is facing is dire. I am all about conservatism having a voice in this race.

We also need to find the strongest candidate. And there is nothing wrong with competition. Do I think Bachmann is serious about a presidential run, or is she seeking attention for a possible senate run in the future? I don’t know. Exploratory committees don’t necessarily mean the candidate will actually run. But you never know.

I find Bachmann to be one of the great members of the conservative, Tea Party movement. She’s been out there against Obamacare and some of the ridiculous policies of this administration.

Via CNN:

CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.

But a source close to the congresswoman said that Bachmann could form the exploratory committee even earlier than June so that she could participate in early Republican presidential debates.

“She’s been telling everyone early summer,” the source told CNN regarding Bachmann’s planned June filing and announcement. But the source said that nothing is static.

“If you [debate sponsors] come to us and say, ‘To be in our debates, you have to have an exploratory committee,’ then we’ll say, ‘Okay, fine…I’ll go file the forms.’”

UPDATE: Bachmann acknowledges the CNN story. Maybe a tacit admission?

Via CNN:

“Read a little something on CNN…” Bachmann told her “friends” in a post on her page.

Though she has not officially made any announcement, the Facebook posting appears to be a tacit admission by the three-term congresswoman that she, in fact, will officially test the presidential waters in June, if not before.

Here is Bachmann on Fox News. She looks to be serious about a run!

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Sarah Palin: “I will call it like I see it.” And she does on the economy, energy and the Middle East.

One of the things I adore about Palin is that she can come out with zingers that get the crowd talking. In the most simplest of terms, she can place focus on the pressing issues of the day.

During her speech in Naples, Florida, Palin focused on the economy and said the $6 billion in cuts are minuscule compared to the deficit we’re in. The reality is we’re in the precipice economically.

Via Naples News:

“Politicians are patting themselves on the back for cutting $6 billion when borrowing $400 billion to keep the country afloat,” she said. “We’re not heading toward the iceberg, we’ve hit the iceberg.”

Palin criticized President Barack Obama for his position on the federal debt, said he “just doesn’t care” and called his proposed 2012 budget—themed ‘winning the future’—a “political document.” She went on to say that after submitting a budget to Congress, the president “went AWOL on spending.”

“Under the guise of winning the future, which I call WTF, we’re spending more money,” she said. “We’re not getting the economic truth out of the White House. …If this is winning the future, then what is the future?”

So we’re giving $2 billion to Brazil so they can drill, yet we can’t?

“We have tens of billions of barrels of oil warehoused underground in Alaska,” Palin said. “But the president goes to Brazil. It’s gone from ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ to ‘Drill, Brazil, Drill.’”

On Israel:

“So many Americans stand with them,” Palin said of Israel. “It is in the interest of freedom, peace and security that I say we must stand with them.”

And on the hot button issue this week, the Middle East, especially Libya. Palin goes after Obama’s dithering.

And Via News-Press:

Regarding Iran, she said the White House had a chance to make an impact there earlier this year during a student uprising, but passed.

She said the United States’ policy on Libya is inconsistent, and that she’s concerned that China is building a vast arsenal of sophisticated submarines and aircraft.

Palin said the right foreign policy ought to be, “If you’re in it, win it. If there’s doubt, get out.”

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In an interview this morning, Senator Rand Paul has trepidations about how the Obama administration handled the Libyan conflict.

Paul echoes my concern, as well as other conservatives over getting ourselves involved in this Libyan conflict. Do we actually know who these rebels are? Do we know how these rebels view Israel? They may actually be worse than Qaddafi, and the tyrant is awful.

Via National Review:

“The question is, who are these people?” he asks. “We know how bad the guy in power is, but do we know that these people are not in favor of radical sharia law? Do we know that they do not think that Israel should be wiped off the map? I am always concerned when we are in favor of people who we know nothing about.”

Paul also declared his indignation on the way the Obama administration bypassed Congress to just all of a sudden get the United States involved in this conflict. And apparently, he’s not the only Republican concerned about this.

“Even on the Republican side, there are people who are saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute, wasn’t Congress supposed to have something to do with declaring war?’” he says…

“For a week, this administration indicated that they were not going to do a no-fly zone. Then, when Congress is out of session, all of sudden the war begins,” he says. “We got a note saying, ‘Oh, by the way, we are at war now.’ Nobody really asked Congress to have any participation in the decision-making. That is not what our Founding Fathers intended.”

I recommend you read the rest of Paul’s interview with National Review.

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In an interview last night on Fox Business, Governor Scott Walker said heis sure the law is on his side when it comes to the passage of his budget repair bill that includes the removal of collective bargaining for many public sector union members.

As you may recall, a Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s new collective bargaining law from taking effect.

The law was passed by the majorities in Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate, after they found a way to go around the stalemate when the 14 AWOL Democrat Senators fled to Illinois to avoid the vote.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Republican legislative leaders of violating Wisconsin’s open meetings law during the rushed run-up to a Senate vote on the measure last week.

Governor Walker said he did what is right for those taxpayers in his state and the state obeyed the laws. “It’s pretty clear the law is on our side.” He also stated that he has an obligation to get his state back on the right track economically, as the electorate elected him to do.

And as it was pointed out a few days ago, the majority of people who e-mailed Gov. Walker supported his bill.

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Representative Mike Pence, who is still a strong opponent of ObamaCare after a year, wants to see a full repeal of this government takeover of health care “lock, stock and barrel.”

The Republicans largely won the House thanks to the Tea Party and conservatives who want to see this health care law repealed in its totality. Pence once said repealing Obamacare is not a gimmick, “it is a promise kept.”

Pence is one of the good guys out there in Washington who is an unabashed conservative and embraced the Tea Party early on. He is a welcomed voice against this Obamacare bill that is still unpopular a year later.

As Pence said, let’s not forget that Obamacare is a government takeover.

Via Pence’s press release:

“One year later, this is still a government takeover of health care. When you mandate every American have government-approved insurance whether they want it or need it or not, when you create a government-run plan paid for with job-killing tax increases, when you provide public funding for abortion, that’s a government takeover of health care, and the American people know it.

“The House of Representatives has taken the right steps to fully repeal ObamaCare as well as taking steps to defund it. We cannot rest until we repeal this government takeover of health care lock, stock and barrel.

“The American people want to face our challenges in health care with more freedom, not more government. Republicans remain committed to reforming health care in a way that reduces costs, promotes personal responsibility, and increases choices available to American patients. By instituting tort reform, strengthening Health Savings Accounts, and allowing Americans to purchase insurance across state lines, we can begin the process of achieving true, sustainable health care reform.”