1.http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/09/17/total-freaking-idiot-maxine-waters-says-shariah-law-is-compatible-with-us-constitution/
2. http://madworldnews.com/dem-employee-pro-terrorism/
3. Right Turn
Another Democrat, another Israel bashing
By Jennifer Rubin September 16 at 4:02 PM
Bill Clinton was caught off mike in Iowa this weekend “agreeing that
the [Israeli] prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] was ‘not the man’ to
make peace with Palestinians — a
position at odds with his wife’s pro-Israel stance, a new report said
Monday. Clinton’s spontaneous comments came during an impromptu
conversation with pro-Palestinian activists after he and Hillary spent
the day at a political event in Iowa on Sunday.” This is part of a
pattern for Bill Clinton – “blaming the Israeli prime minister for the
lack of progress toward peace with the Palestinians.” What do we learn
from this?
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton holds
hands with her husband former president Bill Clinton at the 37th Harkin
Steak Fry in Iowa. (Jim Young/Reuters)
1. Democrats in private
seem always to bash our ally Israel and never to criticize the
Palestinians. If you believe what people say in private or off-script is
more revealing of their real thinking, then you can conclude an
anti-Israel bias is now a sort of sign of solidarity among Democrats. At
the State Department, as we have seen from John Kerry’s utterances and
the Israel bashing from negotiator Martin Indyk, it’s par for the
course.
2. Bill Clinton still plays loose with the facts. He
opined that “don’t forget, both [former Palestinian leader Yasser]
Arafat and [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas later tried to say they
would take [the Camp David deal]. They said, ‘We changed our minds, we
want it now.’ But by then, they had a government that wouldn’t give it
to them.” This is nonsense. It was Clinton who complained bitterly to
the incoming Bush administration that Arafat was a snake in the grass
and not to be trusted. He of course initiated the intifada, which was
Arafat’s real response to the attempt to broker peace. As for Abbas, he
was given an even better deal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and turned
it down. Netanyahu in 2013, of course, confirmed Israel’s willingness to
recognize a Palestinian state. Abbas has never agreed to recognize a
Jewish state and give up the so-called right of return. Why does Clinton
feel the need to embellish history to make Israel look bad?
3.
This does complicate Hillary Clinton’s charm offensive with Israel.
She’d like us to believe she’s not like President Obama when it comes to
Israel, however relations reached a nadir under the Obama-Clinton
administration, and she certainly took to slamming Israel in public for
starting housing within existing Jewish neighborhoods.
4. If
Bill Clinton is going to keep up the chatter during the presidency,
voters may well attribute his comments — and ignorance — to Hillary
Clinton or, worse, be reminded that his presence hovering in the White
House would make for a whole lot of awkward moments.
5. The
same pro-Israel liberals who would defend both Bill and Hillary Clinton
also vouched for Obama’s pro-Israel sentiments. In public, Hillary
Clinton, like Obama, will recite her pro-Israel credentials, but her
words and action in public are more revealing; like so many other
Democrats she tends to view Israel as an irritant. (Oh, and those same
liberals will vote for her no matter what she says; Israel isn’t high on
their priority list as we saw when they helped reelect Obama in 2012.
As with defense spending, the war against the Islamic State and a more
muscular foreign policy, when it comes to Israel the Democratic Party is
going to be pushing against even a president to the right of Obama. He
or she will be swimming upstream against a party that has been flowing
away from Israel for decades. In the GOP, the dynamic is reversed. The
base, especially in light of events during the Obama years, is going to
be weighing in on the side of Israel and for a more robust response
toward terrorists. These things make a difference.
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