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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. AP

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., whose libertarian views set him apart from most of the Republican Party, easily won the Maine GOP's straw poll on Sunday after speaking at the Maine Republican Convention a day earlier. Yet as he considers a possible presidential bid, the senator was in the Northeast over the weekend to build stronger relationships with the establishment wing of the Republican Party.

"You win elections by bringing people together, not dividing them, and I believe that really there's a lot of commonality between folks in the Republican Party," Paul told the Portland Press Herald.

Paul on Sunday attended a state fundraiser for moderate Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, while on Friday he was in Boston meeting with former aides to 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Paul's attempts to broaden his support within the party stands in contrast to the divisions that his father Rep. Ron Paul's presidential bid created -- in 2012, Maine Republicans fought over whether to support Ron Paul or Romney.

Spencer Zwick, Romney's former national finance chairman, helped arrange the private luncheon that Paul attended Friday at Solamere Capital, a private-equity firm led by Zwick and Tagg Romney (Mitt Romney's oldest son). Paul "was very well received," Zwick told the Associated Press. "This was meant to be a real discussion with people that I view can be very helpful."

While he's building connections within the party, Paul told the Press Herald it's too early for him to say whether he's running for president. "I think we need to do one election at a time and people get overwhelmed with more than one," he said.

Paul is also taking steps this week to show his support for Israel -- something that's been called into question, given his libertarian views. This week he plans to introduce legislation that would end aide to the newly-unified Palestinian government unless it recognizes Israel's right to exist within the next five weeks.

"The recent announcement of a Fatah-Hamas unity agreement brings both danger and opportunity to the peace process, and the next five weeks may prove critical," Paul said in a statement. "Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with an entity that does not believe it should exist and that has used terrorist tactics to seek its end."

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul visited Louisville Monday to promote economic growth in west Louisville and a new proposed bill.

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He met with local businessmen and women and civic leaders.

At the Plate Glass Company, at 14th Street and Broadway, Paul announced to civic leaders and developers his proposed bill, called the Economic Freedom Zones Bill, which he said will help west Louisville grow.

"If unemployment is 1 1/2 times the national average in your ZIP code, we dramatically lower taxes," Paul said. "The Economic Freedom Zones would leave $650 million in west Louisville over the next 10 years."

By cutting corporate and personal income taxes to only 5 percent in west Louisville and capital gains tax to zero, Paul said, it would leave much of the money generated in Louisville in Louisville and not in Washington.

"Now, much of it would go to businesses, but that's what we want as we stand in a business in west Louisville that employs 35 people. If we reduce taxes on this business, my hope is they'll employ 40 to 45," Paul said.

With taxes in west Louisville at 5 percent in comparison to 35 percent in east Louisville, Paul hopes businesses would be drawn in.

"The 5 percent tax rate could be just a massive inducement of investment here," said Carroll Mackin, CEO of Great Northern Building Products, which is located in west Louisville.

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(CNN) Sen. Rand Paul plans to introduce a bill this week to cut foreign aid to the Palestinian government unless it recognizes Israel's right to exist, the senator announced Monday.

His proposal comes as the rival movements of Hamas and Fatah in the Palestinian territories reached a deal to form a unity government, a potentially major development as the Palestinian Authority seeks statehood.

The Kentucky Republican argued in a statement that the agreement "brings both danger and opportunity to the peace process, and the next five weeks may prove critical."

The bill that I am introducing will say....we wont send it to (the Palestinians) unless they recognize Israels right to exist and that they end hostilities with Israel," Paul said at an event Monday in Louisville.

As Paul has seen his numbers rise in hypothetical 2016 presidential polls, the libertarian-leaning senator has come under increased scrutiny from mainstream Republicans about his non-interventionist foreign policy views.

Paul has long called for an end to all U.S. foreign aid, including to Israel, though he has said he prefers to cut off assistance to Israel's enemies first, before gradually moving on to Israel itself.

Paul visited the region last year.

He has also pushed legislation that would strip Pakistan, Egypt and Libya of U.S. aid.

CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash contributed to this report.

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