The Transnationalist Ideology of the Progressives respect no national boundaries of any country. We recently had the Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, lecture us on our immigration laws to the loud applause of Democratic lawmakers. We interfered in whether Israel can build in their own capital. Now we return the favor by having Hillary Clinton go to Latin America and lecture them on having tax increases on the rich. She did this while visiting the Totalitarian progressive regime of Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa. She even praised Correa’s Socialist policies: “She praised President Correa for working to increase social inclusion in Ecuador, which still suffers from wide disparities of wealth in urban and rural areas.”
The redistributionist Bolivarian Socialist policies of Correa have failed in Ecuador no matter how Hillary spins it and in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela as well. They have followed the model Hillary advised and it resulted in more poverty for these nations.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged the wealthy across the Americas to pay their “fair share” of taxes in order to eliminate poverty and promote economic opportunity for all.
In a policy speech in the Ecuadoran capital, Clinton said her appeal to overhaul tax systems did not amount to “class warfare” and was instead a recognition that the “winner-take-all-approach” was a drag on progress.
By what right does Hillary Clinton have to tell others what Tax policies to enact? The same right that gives Mexico control over our immigration policies and Saudi Arabia over our foreign policy. It is the concept of Transnationalism which Progressives all throughout the world follow. They do not recognize the sovereignty of nations or the will of the people.
Latin Americans would be wise to ignore Hillary’s economic suggestions and follow the examples of Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile and Panama who have enacted Free Market principles. The path to prosperity is through individualism not collectivism. This is a lesson us Gringos seem to have forgotten!
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who has previously been the keynote speaker at ISNA (the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Trial Foundation), said that Obama is right to call for the building freeze in ‘East Jerusalem.’ This is nothing less than a war on the good from someone who has previously shown his willingness to collaborate with Israel’s (and the U.S.’s) enemies, ala J Street. Actually, Rabbi Yoffie was a featured speaker at J Street’s “Annual Gala.” (quite the coincidence, no?) He spoke alongside the open jihadist, Salam al-Marayati, as well as Iran’s lobbyist, Trita Parsi. And of course, J Street 100% agrees with Rabbi Yoffie that Israel should stop building (for Jews only, of course) in “East Jerusalem,” obviously with the ultimate intent on giving up that land (and thus cleansing 700,000 Jews from their homes) for a future ‘Palestinian state.’
But I digress.
Israel is simply building homes, and in response the jihadists of Fatah and Hamas are building rockets and indoctrinating their people to hate – and yet, according to these progressives, it is Israel that should be capitulating. This point has been rammed home yet again by Hillary Clinton, when she equated building homes in Israel’s holiest city (and capitol!) with hate indoctrination and terrorism in her AIPAC speech yesterday. (big shock here – J Street applauded Hillary’s speech)
Three points on this are often unacknowledged.
1. Ramat Shlomo – the housing units at issue (which caused the diplomatic ‘crisis’) - are in North Jerusalem, not East Jerusalem. Thus, this is saying that Jews have no right to build anywhere in Jerusalem. (and implicitly, anywhere in Israel?)
2. Technically, Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital are in “East Jerusalem.” Should those institutions be dismantled? Why not, according to progressive reasoning? There is a false myth that all of ‘East Jerusalem’ was Arab in 1949. Totally untrue, as evidenced by the existence of Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital! Moreover, the 1949 borders of Israel are literally the lines where the fighting stopped. That’s it. I would like ‘Rabbi’ Eric Yoffie and J Street to explain why and how those particular lines are sacrosanct.
3. Arabs are able to build anywhere they want in Jerusalem, and do. The Israeli ‘building inspectors’ have dedicated themselves to tearing down Jewish, not Arab, illegal building. Source.
I reject the implicitly racist/antisemitic notion that Jews are not allowed to build in their holiest city, but Arabs can live anywhere they want.
NEW YORK CITY, March 14 (Eliana News) – Psychiatrists in New York were on alert Friday after Hillary Clinton took advantage of a weekend release from the violent ward of the NY State Hospital for the Criminally Insane to start her own international incident.
“Technically speaking,” said one psychiatrist who preferred to remain anonymous, “Hillary is out of her gourd. She’s a toy short of a Happy Meal.”
Looking as if she hadn’t combed her hair in weeks, Hillary stormed in to the NBC studios to restart a resolved incident that had occurred in Israel days earlier.
“That damn Obama – he leaves me out of the loop on everything,” Hillary could be heard muttering as she wrestled NBC make-up artists and hair stylists to the floor.
“Leave me the hell alone! I have an international incident to restart,” she growled.
NBC’s Nightly News program could barely get to the Hillary interview quickly enough for the disgruntled diplomat. Anchor Brian Williams reshuffled his stories and the program directors skipped commercials completely until after Hillary’s segment. They feared she would level the building.
“HEY! Listen to me! I’m the damn Secretary of State, ya know!” echoed all over the adjoining studios and offices. Keith Olbermann was kept in lock-down in his padded dressing room while Mrs. Clinton was on the premises.
“We couldn’t risk finding those two in the same room together,” said one security official.
When Brian Williams finally made it to the Hillary interview, he did everything he could to help the disturbed diplomat by over-arching his always-arched eyebrows and announcing in seething tones that “Israel waited until Joe Biden’s visit to announce new settlement construction. Hissss!!”
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell cowered while interviewing Hillary and begged with her eyes, “Please don’t hurt me.”
Then, as they say in the TV news business, Hillary went off like a $2 firecracker. Andrea Mitchell’s hair was as rumpled as Hillary’s by the end of the interview.
A van from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane pulled up to the NBC studios to pick up the disheveled and dispirited diplomat after her NBC Nightly News rant.
“We’re sorry. Bill is always warning us that she’s too wacky to be released, but we wanted to give the staff a break for the weekend. She’s the most dangerous psychiatric patient in our hospital.”
The Obama Administration is putting new safeguards in place to ensure that they will be notified if Hillary is released again. “They put us on speed dial above Bill’s number.”
NBC has requested an entry on the psychiatric hospital’s speed dial list, too.
On Saturday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called other western leaders to explain that the incident had been settled days earlier. Mr. Netanyahu said that he had apologized to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden for the timing of the procedural announcement of Jerusalem construction that had been approved three years earlier and that he had coordinated his apology with Mr. Biden.
Mr. Netanyahu went on to say that all the peace initiatives proposed by Israel and America have stipulated that eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Ramot, Ramat Shlomo and Gilo will remain under Israeli sovereignty in any final agreement.
The western leaders were left to ponder for themselves who is in charge of America such that international incidents are ended and then restarted without anyone in the Obama administration realizing that the neighborhood in question has always been expected to remain in Israeli hands in the event of a peace deal.
ThisJerusalem Demographic Mapshows the location of Ramat Shlomo in northern Jerusalem where 40,000 Jews are currently living. The announced construction would add 1600 small apartments, a park, and a road to this community that is surrounded by empty land.
– Eliana News
This story was inspired by a video clip on MSNBC.com on Saturday night showing Brian Williams on Friday’s NBC Nightly News introducing the Hillary Clinton interview and directly accusing Israel of having “waited” to announce new construction in Jerusalem until after Joe Biden had arrived. Andrea Mitchell suggested in the interview that Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t know about the announcement, but Hillary coldly blamed him anyway since he’s the Prime Minister.
This NBC Nightly News video clip has since been edited to leave out most of the hostility against Israel from Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton after complaints about it to NBC Nightly News, including from yours truly.
James Riady, the Indonesian agent of the Fascist regime of China, has been allowed back in America. He was convicted of bribery and barred entry into the US. However, he has received a waiver from the State Department and allowed back in. Well guess who runs the State department? Hillary Clinton, whose husband Bill Clinton, has ties to Raidy and his Lippo Organization going back to his Arkansas days. This is not a coincidence and it is a disturbing event.
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — In March 2004, James Riady, an Indonesian tycoon and devout Christian, received an honorary doctorate from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. The university — which has a scholarship program funded by the Indonesian — didn’t announce the honor. Nor did Riady pick up the diploma in person: He’d been barred from America after pleading guilty in 2001 to a “conspiracy to defraud the United States” through illegal contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and other Democrats.
Raidy was one of the major figures in the Chinagate scandal. The consequences are felt today as Clinton gave them access to our Military Technology. Hillary Clinton denies having knowledge of his return to America. Personally, I don’t believe her. This was a shady scandal that was overshadowed by the useless Lewinsky scandal. This is just another case of Progressive corruption at the expense of our National Security. Thank you Clintons!
Update: Here is a book by Bill Gertz that describes the history of this disgusting series of events. It’s called Year of the Rat.
Israel has a solid case under international law for the ownership of all of the land included in the Palestine Mandate. On November 28th, the Jerusalem Post published this article:
NGO to Clinton: Settlements are legal
By JACOB KANTER
The Office for Israeli Constitutional Law, a non-governmental legal action organization, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, warning that by labeling Jewish settlements in the West Bank illegal, she is violating international law.
The little-known Anglo-American Convention, a treaty signed by the US and British governments in 1924, stipulated that the US fully accepted upon itself the Mandate for Palestine, which declared all of the West Bank within its borders.
“The treaty has been hidden,” said OFICL director Mark Kaplan. “But if you look at the House [of Representatives] deliberations during World War I, people are saying, ‘Look, we’ve invested a lot of money in Palestine, and we expect that this treaty will be upheld.’”
Though the United Nations’ 1947 partition plan declared the West Bank an Arab territory, the mandate’s borders still hold today.
“The mandate expired in 1948 when Israel got its independence,” Kaplan said. “But the American-Anglo convention was a treaty that was connected to the mandate. Treaties themselves have no statute of limitations, so their rights go on ad infinitum.”
“The UN partition plan was just that-a plan,” said OFICL chairman Michael Snidecor in a statement. “The General Assembly has no authority to create countries or change borders…
The OFICL letter also warned Clinton that if her office does not comply with the civil rights recognized in the Anglo-American convention, OFICL will file a class-action suit in a US district court….
From the letter to Hillary Clinton from the OFICL:
Thereafter, the United States of America ratified a treaty a with the British Government known as the Anglo-American Treaty of 1924, which included by reference the aforementioned Balfour Declaration and includes, verbatim, the full text of the Mandate for Palestine.
“Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on the 2nd of November 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…”
By doing so, the United States of America is legally bound to the principles contained in the “Balfour Declaration” and the “Mandate for Palestine.”
THE ARGUMENT used against Israel in the claim that the Jewish settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem are illegal is a cynical and wicked twisting of an article in the 4th Geneva Convention that was meant to prevent another Holocaust:
Many who allege that Jewish communities in the West Bank violate international law cite the 4th Geneva Convention, Article 49. It states that an occupying power “shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” But Julius Stone, like Rostow a leading legal theorist, wrote in his 1981 book, “Israel and Palestine: An Assault on the Law of Nations,” that the effort to designate Israeli settlements as illegal was a “subversion . . . of basic international law principles.”
Stone, Stephen Schwebel, a former judge on the International Court of Justice, and others have distinguished between territory acquired in an “aggressive conquest” (such as Nazi Germany’s seizures during World War II) and territory taken in self-defense (such as Israeli conquests in 1967).
The distinction is especially sharp when the territory acquired had been held illegally, as Jordan had held the West Bank, which it seized during the Arab states’ 1948-49 war against Israel.
Further, Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention was intended to outlaw the Nazi practice of forcibly transporting populations into or out of occupied territories to labor or death camps. Israelis were not forcibly transferred to the West Bank, nor were Palestinian Arabs forced out of it. Two years after President Carter’s State Department determined that Israeli settlements violated international law, President Reagan said flatly that they were “not illegal.”
The “Palestinian” Claim to Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem is Illegitimate
The “Palestinians” claim is that they are entitled to the land up to the pre-1967 cease fire lines because these areas of land were “taken” from Jordan and Egypt.
In Article 5 of the Mandate of Palestine (which is incorporated into the Anglo-American treaty of 1924 and the United Nations Charter) states:
“The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign power.”
Jordan and Egypt violated international law when they (as “foreign powers”) took control of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. After these “foreign powers” had been expelled, they did not have legal heirs to this land in the form of fellow Arabians who call themselves “Palestinians.”
This legal matter will have to be addressed in the American legal system because the Obama Administration’s and the U.S. State Department’s obligations to recognize that all of the land belongs to Israel are at the center of the legal arguments.
Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) has indicated that it has transitioned from its covert status to a public phase of operations by issuing an announcement, signed in its own name, that it will host a conference in July 2009 to support the establishment of a Caliphate. The promotional video can be viewed on YouTube. The event, titled “The Fall of Capitalism and Rise of Islam,” is scheduled for Sunday, July 19th, 2009, at the Aqsa School in Bridgeview, Illinois.
Tarbiyah Islamiyah Organization chairman Basri Bermanda said that terrorist acts were against Islam but they could be done by quarters using the label of Islam or by non-Muslims who wanted to tarnish the image of Islam. He therefore refused to accept that Islam was identical with the symbol of violence and cruelty. “Islam teaches peace and goodness,” he said.
The scholar, Tariq Ramadan, 46, a Swiss academic, was to become a tenured professor at the University of Notre Dame, but the Bush administration revoked his visa in 2004 and again denied him a visa in 2006. The government cited evidence that from 1998 to 2002, he donated about $1,300 to a Swiss-based charity that the Treasury Department later categorized as a terrorist organization because it provided money to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group.
Clinton or Obama, which is worse? Wrong question, I think.
America has been dying via the thousand cuts of liberalism and Political Correctness for a hundred years. Since Wilson we oscillate between liberal leadership to moderate Republican leadership. IMO moderate Republicans are just Dem party light.a slower death. Remember Nixon imposed wage freezes and continued expanding the welfare state started under Johnson (actually under FDR).
Reagan was an exception to this back and forth choosing of Dem’s or Dem light.
Now if you believe as I do that all History is orchestrated by God, that nations are raised up and brought down by God, that miracles like America, and Israel came forth by the hand of God, then you should also believe man is not going to have the final say so about the outcomes.
America is blessed for one reason only: 90% of all missionary effort has come from America in the past 100 years. Now you may be an unbeliever, or of another faith. You may think much of Christianity is corrupt etc. But Christianity always brings with it the seeds of liberty and greater light.
Hospitals are built in the name of Christianity, women are elevated in status via Christianity, civil wars are fought to end slavery via Christianity. World wars have been won because Christians were praying. Communism was weakened by men that spoke like prophets.think of Reagan “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Iraq is in the process of being liberated, for the most part, by Christian soldiers. No matter what the media says, how many suicide bombers spring up for some time after our soldiers leave that freedom will take root and will not be thwarted.
This will not be allowed to be stopped by the “progressives,” or any other ideology, Communism, Fascism, Emperor Worship, Islam, American Leftists.
Instead God is judging America right now, not destructively (although it seems like that, and it will get worse) but he is drawing together in one net all those that hate America, hate what she stands for, what she does. Note that Clinton IS a part of this administration, note that the “progressives,” have a sense of inevitability and power like at no other time in American history.
They will be seen for what they are, they will cause such damage as the majority of Americans will reject the progressive agenda for all time. You are not seeing the conquest of freedom by the progressives, instead you are seeing the revealing of rattlesnakes just before they are sprayed with gasoline and the match is lit. HAVE FAITH.
If you do not in these days that are coming, despair will be like ashes in your mouth. Already I have a hard time listening to conservative talk radio, because they see the judgment.yes, but they do not see the outcome, the triumph of God that is coming over this evil.
This idea I am expressing here ought to be a thread, IMO. It is important for all of us to reject despair right now, to really believe.
Hillary Clinton whom at one time I despised, I have grown some respect for over the last year. She didn’t quit her campaign when the Media told her too and stood up to the Vast Progressive Conspiracy. She saw what Obama’s true colors were and tried to stop this Totalitarian takeover.She failed and being a loyal party member endorsed and accepted the Secretary of State Position. Unlike Obama, Hillary knows about the threats facing this nation, as Iran was in chaos, she urged Obama to get firmer and back the protesters.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged President Obama for two days to toughen his language on Iran before he did so, and then was surprised when he condemned Iran’s crackdown on demonstrators last week, administration officials say.
At his June 23 news conference, Mr. Obama said he was “appalled and outraged” by Iranian behavior and “strongly condemned” the violence against anti-government demonstrators. Up until then, Mr. Obama and other administration officials had taken a softer line, expressing “deep concern” about the situation and calling on Iran to “respect the dignity of its own people.”
Behind the scenes, the officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing internal deliberations, said Mrs. Clinton had been advocating the stronger U.S. response, but the president resisted. When he finally took her advice, the aides said, he did so without informing her first.
I never thought I would say this but I wish Hillary was President and not Obama. Although the Clintons are Liberals, they are not Progressives and don’t believe in a government take over of the economy. I know the Clinton haters will jump at me, but better Hillary than Obama.
Newspapers all over the world are working overtime to brand new Foreign Minister of Israel Avigdor Lieberman as a “racist”, “ultra-nationalist”, “right winger” and any other supposedly disparaging term they can dig up. They will tell you nothing about the man other than he is an evil man who dared to suggested that Israelis, including Israeli-Arabs, be required to take an oath of loyalty. What they don’t show you is why he suggested it.
Sadly, it seems that our own Government still just doesn’t get it. Just a few hours after The Jerusalem Post completed the interview below with Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, gave testimony on Capitol Hill that insists that Israel continue the failed policies of the past. Clinton stated that “For Israel to get the kind of strong support it is looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can’t stay on the sidelines with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts. They go hand in hand.”
Israel however has never even hinted that it has any desire to stall peace-making efforts with the so-called Palestinians. When asked about this, Lieberman stated that his government instead, “intends to take the initiative” [on peace efforts].
Hillary Clinton knows this. But what she really means when she says “peace efforts” is that Israel must surrender to the Phakestinians, follow the same failed policies of the last 60 plus years, and continue to surrender their sovereignty and security in return for nothing but empty promises. This however is something that Lieberman, and Netanyahu, (for now it seems) won’t do.
Below are segments from this interview with Avigdor Lieberman. Hear him in his own words.
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Can we start with the issue of two states for two peoples. Wasn’t the international basis for the establishment of Israel that there be a Jewish entity alongside an Arab entity? Is your government now departing from this paradigm or is the principle of two states still the applicable one?
First of all, we must understand why the Palestinian issue is deadlocked, because since 1993 we really made every effort. We had very dovish governments. We can start with Ehud Barak at Camp David, who made a very generous offer to [Yasser] Arafat and he rejected it. As for the Ariel Sharon government, we undertook an insane process called disengagement. We transferred thousands of Jews from the Gaza Strip. We evacuated tens of flowering settlements and we received in return Hamas and Kassam rockets. The last government of Ehud Olmert is the same. From what I saw in the papers, he really made a very very generous offer to Abu Mazen. And the same thing happened: Abu Mazen rejected it.
Were there elements that Olmert offered that were surprising to you?
Of course. I was shocked, as was everybody.
But more than this offer, more important at the end of the day: what was the final result? This was a very dovish government – without Lieberman, without Netanyahu. It was Olmert, Barak and Tzipi Livni. And the result? The Second Lebanon War, the operation in Gaza, severed diplomatic relations with Mauritania and Qatar, our soldier Gilad Schalit still in captivity. And we cannot move forward without understanding why.
I know that all of us know some very popular slogans – land for peace, two-state solutions. It would be very easy to win over public opinion or the mass media by talking in slogans. But this is not election time. We’re not during the campaign. We want to bring real results.
Israel has proved its good intentions, our desire for peace. Since 1978, we gave up territories three times larger than Israel. We invested billions of shekels in the Palestinian Authority. We paid a very heavy price. Thousands of our citizens were killed in terrorist acts. What more can we do?
Without understanding the real reasons for this long-standing conflict, we cannot move forward. That’s my view.
Over the last two weeks I’ve had many conversations with my colleagues
around the world. Just today, I saw the political adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Chinese foreign minister and the Czech prime
minister. And everybody, you know, speaks with you like you’re in a campaign: Occupation, settlements, settlers…
You mean they speak in slogans?
Yes, slogans. Settlements, outposts. And I ask only one thing: What was the situation before 1967, before we established a single settlement. What was before ’48 and ’67? Was it peace, was it a heaven here?
It was the same: friction, terrorism, bloodshed. The PLO and Fatah were established before ’67 and the Arab countries controlled Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip for 19 years, from ’48 to ’67. Nobody spoke during this time about the Palestinian state. And even before the establishment of the state of Israel, it was the same: friction, tension, terror, riots, pogroms. People try to simplify the situation with these formulas – land for peace, two-state solution. It’s a lot more complicated.
You don’t need to persuade this newspaper not to speak to you in slogans, but nonetheless, is it not the case that for our sake, to keep a Jewish, democratic Israel, we have to find some way to separate from the Palestinians? And doesn’t that mean, in principle at least, statehood? I understand the prime minister’s concerns about what statehood brings with it – giving one the right to arm and to pose a threat. But what then is the ultimate goal here vis-a-vis the Palestinians?
We must clarify our position. The real reason [for the deadlock with the Palestinians] is not occupation, not settlements and not settlers. This conflict is really a very deep conflict. It started like other national conflicts. Today it’s a more religious conflict. Today you have the influence of some non-rational players, like Al-Qaida. What is Hamas and Islamic Jihad? It’s Iran by proxy.
To resolve this conflict, it is not enough to repeat slogans. I don’t see any short way for any comprehensive solutions.
From my point of view, we’re interested in three things. First of all, as Israeli citizens, the most important thing is security. I don’t want to see, every day, every morning, Palestinian missiles striking Sderot.
Second, what is most important for the Palestinians? I think it’s also very clear – the economy. Now I say as a settler, we at Nokdim are the biggest employer in our area. I have met many times with Palestinians from the villages around us, who really strongly do not believe in any political process, in peace processes - not in summits, not in conferences, not in declarations…
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Is our government going to say to the international community and the Americans in particular, ‘We’re not even going to start trying to make progress with the Palestinians until you stop Iran?
No, no, no, no, no.
That’s the impression that’s sometimes being created.
No, we must start with the Palestinian issues because it’s our interest to resolve this problem. But there should be no illusions. To achieve an agreement, to achieve an end of conflict, with no more bloodshed, no more terror, no more claims – that’s impossible until Iran [is addressed], one of the biggest players in our arena.
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You say you don’t foresee a comprehensive solution in the near future, but we’re already hearing from the new American president that this has been going on for long enough.
Annapolis was the wrong approach. With the Road Map, you can see some logical path: First of all, [for the PA to] dismantle terrorist organizations, collect illegal weapons, establish a justice system and establish normal state institutions. You have three stages in the Road Map, with 48-49 paragraphs. Only the last stage, the last paragraphs, deal with negotiations for the permanent solution. So, [under Annapolis,] to jump straight to the last paragraph and to concede on all of the Palestinian commitments to fight terror – it’s a very strange approach.
Now in our policy review, it’s a new government and we need time. I’m not ready for someone to stand with a stopwatch and say, ‘What’s happening, what’s happening?’ I talked with [President Obama's special envoy George] Mitchell, and he well understood our problems.
The people of Israel made their decision [in the elections] and this is really the right time to examine new ideas, new approaches, new visions. We’re trying to formulate this new approach now.
Although I do not agree completely with everything Liberman says in his interview, I believe that the Netanyahu government is on the right track by trying something different. Despite what the World media wish for you to believe, Liberman is hardly an “extremist”, nor a “ultra-nationalist”. His only sin here is that he questions the prevailing so-called wisdom, of blaming the conflict on Israel not giving enough to the Arabs. The problem however is that the media is wrong, and Liberman is right. The main stumbling block with the Arab-Israeli conflict has been the World’s insistance that we continue the same failed policies. Sadly, from the words of Secretary of State Clinton, it seems that the U.S. still doesn’t get it, and I am afraid that with an Obama Administration we never will. Despite history, they wish to continue the “all for nothing from Israel” policies that have caused the stalemate Israel and the Arabs are in today.
For the sake of everyone involved, I pray for the peace of Israel, and that our leaders finally get it!
* Clinton says Israel must be open to Palestinian talks [When did she win Israeli elections?]
* She insists U.S. funds will not go to Hamas [Of course not! We believe her, too. And them. Oh yeah.]
* Secretary of state hints at some flexibility on funds [Meaning Israel must accept a "Palestinian" state, but as usual, none of them have to accept Israel. Nice and flexible and all.]
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautioned Israel’s right-wing government on Thursday that it risked losing Arab support for fighting any threats from Iran if it shuns Palestinian peace talks.
Signaling U.S. impatience with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reticence over peace talks, Clinton said Arab nations had made clear to her that Israel must be committed to the Palestinian peace process if it wants help countering Iran.
“For Israel to get the kind of strong support it is looking for vis-a-vis Iran, it can’t stay on the sidelines with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts. They go hand in hand,” she told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.
Israel sees a nuclear-armed threat as a mortal threat.
Why in the world?
But New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey, who has previously put holds on money earmarked for the Palestinians, questioned what she said was some “flexibility” in the Obama administration’s approach.
Clinton reiterated that the Obama administration expected any new government that included Hamas to meet three conditions — to recognize Israel, renounce violence and sign on to previous Palestinian peace accords.
But Clinton hinted that some flexibility might be needed, pointing to U.S. funding for Lebanon, whose government includes the militant group Hezbollah.
What is the point of the Afghan surge if their government allows women to be raped by their husbands. Is this what we are fighting for? If so I am not for helping these people.
That was then. This is now: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has just signed a law that forces women to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, keeps women from leaving the house — even for work or school — without a husband’s permission, automatically grants child custody rights to fathers and grandfathers before mothers, and favors men in inheritance disputes and other legal matters. In short, the law again consigns Afghan women to lives of brutal repression.
We wasted American lives for this? I thought Obama, who is a Progressive, believes in Women’s rights? Where is Hillary on this? This is another example of the hypocrisy of the Left. They will sell out their own beliefs to appease Islam. It is time to leave Afghanistan, let the Taliban have it. The people there want them. I say we just firebomb for every terror attack. Terror should be met with Terror. Not invading and setting up democracies. America needs to stop helping Muslims; screw them, and let them help themselves.
In another international gaff, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told children in a televised interview on Ali-Soutak, a Palestinian Authority (PA) TV station, that she hopes to “connect up our two countries,” clearly referring to the PA and the U.S. There is only one problem with this well intentioned statement: There is, and never was a country called “Palestine”.
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(Israel NN) The Secretary was interviewed by a teenage girl and boy, each of whom asked her questions. One of Clinton’s first subtle references to the PA as already carrying the status of an independent nation came in response to one of the first questions asked by the girl:
Girl Host: “The access program is an exchange program funded by the American government. What role do such programs play in bridging the gap between cultures and what can be done to make them 2-way exchange programs?”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “I am hoping to play a big role in working to connect the Palestinian people and American people more closely. As you know, we have many Palestinian Americans, we have very successful Palestinians in every walk of life; in business, in academia, you name it, in every walk of life. And I want to do more to connect up our two countries.
“Our people, having the Palestinian people feel that they have a better understanding of the United States and having the American people feel like they have a better understanding of the Palestinian people.”
Another question asked by the girl, in which Clinton urged PA teens never to give up on the dream of establishing a new Arab country within Israel’s current borders…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In its first public overture to Tehran, the Obama administration intends to invite Iran to an international conference on Afghanistan planned for this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday.
“If we move forward with such a meeting, it is expected that Iran would be invited as a neighbor of Afghanistan,” Clinton told a news conference in Brussels after meeting NATOforeign ministers.
President Barack Obama, in a dramatic turnaround from Bush administration policy, has said the United States wants to engage Iran on a range of issues and the conference invitation would be the start of diplomatic outreach to Tehran.
Clinton proposed the conference, which brings in Afghanistan’s other neighbors including Pakistan and other major players, would take place on March 31.
“It is a way of bringing all the stakeholders and interested parties together,” said Clinton.
Iran borders Afghanistan and worked closely with the United States after the U.S. military offensive there to topple the Taliban and fight al Qaeda following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
The United States is at loggerheads with Iran on a range of issues, including its nuclear program which Washington says is aimed at building an atomic bomb. Tehran says its program is for peaceful power purposes.
“Our task is to dissuade them, deter them and prevent from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Clinton said.
Jewish leaders who once supported Hillary now see her true anti Israel colors. She was always anti Israel, until she ran for the senate. Now she is backstabbing many who helped her get into the Senate.
In a swift about face from her views as New York’s senator, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now hammering Israel over its treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. As First Lady, Clinton raised eyebrows when she kissed Suha Arafat.
Since she was then seeking a Senate seat the resulting brouhaha caused her to “re-think” her positions.
“I’m a very strong supporter of Israel,” Clinton said back in February 2000. On Thursday, as Secretary of State she had yet another about face in the form of angry messages demanding Israel speed up aid to Gaza. Jewish leaders are furious.
To us Clinton watchers, this comes as no surprise. When Bill was president he forced Israel to give up territory top the Muslims. As I have been stating, what happened to Serbia in the 90′s, Is now happening to Israel.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In its first public overture to Tehran, the Obama administration intends to invite 
