Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton Over Israel Criticism

Zuckerman, Lawmakers, Local Jews Say Secretary Of State Not The Hillary Clinton They Used To Know

Hillary Pressuring Israel To Speed Up Aid To Gaza

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NEW YORK (CBS) ?

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.

"I am very surprised, frankly, at this statement from the United States government and from the secretary of state," said Mortimer Zuckerman, publisher of the New York Daily News and member of the NYC Jewish Community Relations Council.

"I liked her a lot more as a senator from New York," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, said. "Now, I wonder as I used to wonder who the real Hillary Clinton is."

Clinton's decision to hammer Israel comes as the Clintons and President Barack Obama are planning to give the Palestinians $900 million toward the rebuilding of Gaza in the wake of the Israeli offensive that was sparked by Hamas rocket fire.

SURPRISE

Man ,is this Administration makin the last one look good or what ..

^Yeah. W's approval rating at this point was higher and Obama has tripled the deficit.

*sigh*

No surprise. The money goes to the moderate Palestinians controlling the West Bank so that they can compete for support with Hamas' dollars. Hamas and other terrorist organizations and countries throw a lot of money around Gaza. hopefully, they are just buying their way into a position of influence and taking away one of Hamas' big appeal to Gazans.

she is such a yutz

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304850865&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull 

Long but interesting read. anti-semitism and the UN

It's been that way for decades and is only worsening!

Remember the flap when Mexico voted in the UN with the (then) Soviet Union to equate Zionism with racism? This was around 1978...who can recall exactly?

I guess Mexico had strategic interests in the Mid-East and a show of solidarity with downtrodden Arab brothers was required.

Or else the Mexicans just like boatloads of good Russki wodka.

LMAO...the UN is as anachronistic as flint tools and bearskins. But its presence in NYC is an effective hedge against that city ever being attacked.

9. Author: PecanPi1 Date: 02/27/2009 08:30 AM Reply

LMAO...the UN is as anachronistic as flint tools and bearskins. But its presence in NYC is an effective hedge against that city ever being attacked.

Hm, when the SHTF (God forbid), you might be wishing for your flint and skins.

And I don't think NYC has any assurance of being a non-target... if 911 was any indication...

Maybe we should wait until they stop the fighting.

Before we send them $9oo million dollars!!!!

neo....that was sarchasm.

S-A-R-C-H-A-S-M

Stay off that rope bridge!!

XOXOX

PPi

"I liked her a lot more as a senator from New York," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, said. "Now, I wonder as I used to wonder who the real Hillary Clinton is."

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Gee - he just figured this out?????? Where's he been for the last 12+ years???

PPi, of course.

You are very correct about the UN, too.

Israel doesn't buy any of our national debt and we're looking to sell a couple of trillion dollars more.

Oil-rich sheikdoms do buy massive amounts of our debt.

And they, the oil-rich sheikdoms, finance that purchase of US nat'l debt with petro-dollars...which the Arabs manipulate the collection of (petro-dollars)by raising or lowering oil output.

Ever heard of OPEC?

So, which Rolls are we taking to the mosque today??

^

Interesting perspective to add to the discussion. I get a weekly Jewish newspaper that always has articles on this type of stuff from the American Jewish perspective(s) and Israeli perspective(s). I'll report if it includes anything on this particular subject...

I'm a very interesting guy.

If you can get past the nutty & crusty part.

But then I wouldna be a very good Pi.

17. Author: rfenst

What paper is that?

Is it online/EM?

I think there is so much more that we don't know about Israel and what the U.S. has agreed to. It's hard to speculate when we only have a small percentage of the truth leaked to us.