Monday, November 5, 2007
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Martin Kramer: Hillary: Triangulation on Israel? - 'Hillary Clinton has published her foreign policy agenda in Foreign Affairs magazine, under the title "Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-First Century." The one paragraph on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict draws deeply on the notions that "resolving the conflict" should be America's top priority, that both sides are equally at fault for the "violence," and that Palestinians need only make promises to earn statehood. The passage strongly suggests that Hillary's support for Israel is more "triangulated" than many have assumed...' [Read it all. A Democrat administration promises a return to empty photo-ops for American diplomacy.]
It is pathetic, substantially pathetic, that such policy outlooks continue to be forwarded by a major campaign. It's also telling that Hillary and Co. don't so much as feel the need to mount even a tendentious argument, all they throw out in support of their peace "process" policy outlook are standard, off-the-shelf shibboleths for sound-bite consumption. And such, concerning such a momentous set of issues, while running for the most important political office on the face of the planet.
Substantively pathetic is an understatement.
This is what I have been saying all along, not that any of my Jewish friends (who for the most part are reliably Democratic voters) are listening. Senator Clinton, should she become the President, will be NO friend of Israel.
BHG
...both sides are equally at fault for the "violence,"...Aside from the probability that it would have the opposite effect, the very choice of the word "violence" evokes the infamous phrase "cycle of violence," by which Israelis and Palestinians are deemed equally responsible for the bloodshed.
I'm not a big fan of hers, but -- c'mon. "Apartheid" is an unacceptably loaded word, but "violence"? He gets all that from "violence"?