At the end of Sunday’s Tom Harkin Iowa Steak Fry, Bill Clinton was recorded bashing Bibi Netanyahu, agreeing that the prime minister was “not the man” to make peace with Palestinians. At the very end of the 3 Hour 15 minute C-Span coverage, the former President had an impromptu conversation with pro-Palestinian activists.
If we don’t force him to have peace, we won’t have peace … Netanyahu is not the guy,” the activist told the ex-president. I agree with that,” Bubba clearly replied, apparently unaware his remarks were being recorded. Then he bragged about getting Ehud Barack to give Arafat everything he wanted including Jerusalem.
Bill Clinton’s anti-Bibi comments were in line with his wife’s actions as Secretary of State who presided over the foreign policy of the most anti-Israel administration in history. Actually with the possible exception of the time from her first campaign New York’s Senate seat in 2000 to her resignation from the Senate to become Secretary of State in January 2009, except for the time she needed New York’s Jewish voting bloc, Hillary Clinton has never been pro-Israel. It seems that after years of getting rich from Arab money…husband Bill agrees.
slick willy merely demonstrates long standing US gov policy wrt Israel: trying to force Israel to give to the arabs whether in war or peace. It is only the US public and many congressional reps which supports Israel; the executive branch(DOS) has always been for the arabs. Thats where there money is made. Hillary is bad for Israel, she is a deceptive opportunist, amoral and unethical.
Max Said:
I never believed that was an accident.
Was Billy boy expressing an honest, if mistaken opinion? Obviously not: “Then he bragged about getting Ehud Barack to give Arafat everything he wanted including Jerusalem.” So if the pali-posers were offered everything they wanted and rejected it, how can he think Bibi is the problem? He can’t so he mindlessly revealed himself to be just another lying anti-Semite. Pure and simple.
Caught just like Kerry who after a convo with Bibi was caught off mike and on tape saying
Bill Clinton knew the cameras were rolling because there was a very obvious mic boom being held over his head. I think Clinton would argue that his point was that Abbas refused his offer and changed his mind when it was too late.
His comment about Netanyahu is actually positive. He agreed with the fakestinian that Bibi is not the guy who is going to offer the terrorists an acceptable deal. That is no put down of Netanyahu, not in my eyes. One thing is quite clear, I doubt Netanyahu is planning to evacuate a single Jew from their home and perhaps not official Israeli policy, OSLO IS DEAD AND THERE WILL NOT BE ANY FURTHER WITHDRAWALS NOR THE CREATION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE, I.E. FOR AS LONG AS NETANYAHU IS PM. That is what Israel gets for granting the stinking europeans and obama adm their bullshit ceasefire. The decision by Likud Central to demand shutting hamas down for good next time was essential for building up a deterence. Netanyahu is smart, he will adapt to the vote by trying to deny hamas the means to do any further attacks. I do not see how that can be sustained, so therefore; I give Mr. Netanyahu less than one year in office, UNLESS, he comes through on Iran in which case, he survives, 100% chance.
It seems to me that almost all smart/successful US politicians are well trained in how to appear as pro-Israel as possible to American Jews. Why can we not see through it. Their real positions show a tendency first and foremost, and in earnest to stand ready to “show flexibility” to the nice terrorist Abbas. There is even an optional alternative name for the holocost denier, “Mazen”. Preposterous.
Don’t get me wrong, they do not fear American Jews. Rather they know how to avoid empowering us by employing a well practised constructive ambiguity. One of the best examples was Obama’s statement during the last election, that he Obama was “the best friend Israel ever had”. There was hardly a peep from the organized American Jewish Community.
How the american Jewish community could have voted for this lemon not once, but twice speaks volumes, as Caroline Glick likes to say.