Israel Matzav

Hillary Clinton tells Tunisians pro-Israel sentiment doesn't represent the United States

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers a question from a Tunisian and implies that pro-Israel sentiments are expressed only to gain votes, and don't reflect American feelings or policies once the campaign is over.

Let's go to the videotape.



Anyone still think that a second term of a Hussein Obama administration would support Israel?

Barry Rubin adds:

Here is her basic answer then: Ignore what these people say, they are just shooting off their mouths to get votes. Actually, we love Muslims. And Obama sets U.S. policy, which is true but implies that while those turkeys are pro-Israel Obama is pro-Arab, which means—in a zero-sum game context—anti-Israel.

Or to sum up, when it comes to Israel we’re on your side.

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You might understandably protest that Clinton didn’t want to say anything her audience didn’t agree with. But she did so on other issues, for example asserting the rights of homosexuals and transsexuals, an idea not likely to be popular in Tunisia.

Only Israel gets thrown under the bus. Does Clinton really want to suggest that those who support Israel “don’t reflect the United States, don’t reflect our foreign policy, don’t reflect who we are as a people”? Does she want to imply that people who support Israel hate Muslims but we’re not like that because we have lots of mosques and happy Muslims? Has she ever seen the anti-American interviews, full of lies by the way, that American Islamists give on Arabic television?

Moreover, Clinton also did something a secretary of state should never do, subordinated U.S. interests to partisan considerations. Everything’s ok, she said, because Obama is president. But what if Obama isn’t president after January 20, 2013? She suggested that if the Republicans are in office Arabs and Muslims should then regard America, no longer under the rule of their friend Obama, as an enemy.

Read the whole thing. Despicable, isn't it?

Labels: Hillary Clinton, Tunisia, US-Israel relationship

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:25 AM