NEW YORK - Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and their GOP presidential rivals slammed President Obama's Middle East policies yesterday while emphatically declaring their own support for Israel as the United Nations considered a bid for Palestinian statehood.
Republican front-runner Perry, the Texas governor, denounced the president's Israel policy as "misguided and dangerous," speaking to supporters in New York as the Obama administration worked a few miles away to thwart a U.N. vote to grant formal recognition to the Palestinian Authority.
