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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 04:54 PM Sep 2014

Bill Clinton: Netanyahu 'not the guy' to strike lasting Middle East peace deal

Bill Clinton has been recorded going off-message and criticising the Israeli government’s unwillingness to seek peace with Palestinians in unguarded comments that contrast with other leading Democrats, including his wife, potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Speaking to a member of the public at a Democratic fundraiser in Iowa this weekend, the former president agreed with the suggestion that Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu was “not the guy” to strike a lasting peace deal in the region.

Clinton also agreed when it was suggested to him that “If we don’t force him [Netanyahu] to make peace, we won’t have peace”.

The former president replied: “First of all, I agree with that. But in 2000, Ehud Barack, I got him to agree to something I’m not sure I would have gotten Rabin to agree to, and Rabin was murdered for giving land to the Palestinians.”

Though brief and apparently unscripted, the exchange, which was recorded by C-Span and picked up by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is in stark contrast to recent comments by Hillary Clinton, who has been more supportive of Netanyahu’s handling of the recent conflict in Gaza.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/bill-clinton-netanyahu-criticism-israeli-palestinian-deal?CMP=fb_gu

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Bill Clinton: Netanyahu 'not the guy' to strike lasting Middle East peace deal (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM Sep 2014 OP
Bill Clinton is right. LeftishBrit Sep 2014 #1
No kidding King_David Sep 2014 #2
He's right, too. n/t Aerows Sep 2014 #3
"Shalom Haver" ... Israeli Sep 2014 #4
So much paranoia oberliner Sep 2014 #8
Bill Mao Shung Sep 2014 #5
That may be so. Shaktimaan Sep 2014 #6
Total BS oberliner Sep 2014 #7

Israeli

(4,132 posts)
4. "Shalom Haver" ...
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 07:15 AM
Sep 2014


Hillary Clinton is about to add that last nail to your coffin ....used to be about could Hillary control Bill ... now its can Bill control Hillary .

She will sell her soul, and her husbands, to be the first female American President .

 

Mao Shung

(55 posts)
5. Bill
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 11:27 AM
Sep 2014

Bill sounds unaware it is easier for hard liners to make concession. Hence, Likud signed the Camp David accords.

Rabin's dream was to be a farmer, and he ended up prime minister. A country would do quite well if composed of many Rabin's.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
6. That may be so.
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 12:03 AM
Sep 2014

But previous right wing PMs like Begin or even Sharon were interested in a permanent peaceful solution. The same can not be said of Bibi.

While Likud would have an easier time pushing through a treaty politically on Israel's end, the fact remains that its current incarnation has no real interest in doing so.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. Total BS
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 05:11 AM
Sep 2014

"But previous right wing PMs like Begin or even Sharon were interested in a permanent peaceful solution."

Unbelievable ignorance in that statement.

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