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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton receiving undue credit for Gaza ceasefire agreement? [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)"Can someone explain why this is being hailed as a Clinton victory? "
Who is hailing it as a victory? You gave no links to show people were doing so.
A minute at google news search turns up this:
Clinton arrives in J'lem as Gaza truce is postponed By TOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEHLAST UPDATED: 11/20/2012 23:08 Following reports of an imminent cease-fire, Hamas official says Egyptian efforts to broker a truce held up because the Israeli government has yet to respond to proposals; CNN: Egypt has no plans to announce truce yet.
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in Jerusalem late Tuesday night amidst announcements that a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas had been delayed by at least one day.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=292729
So yeah, the deal was there before but wasn't going through (and if you had listened to people like Harry Fear or followed #gaza on twitter you would have known all of this. Places like fox news though are biased and try to fool people, so try not to watch them if you do - they know a big part of the population are stupid and a bunch of rw sheep)
Of course one could also point out that Hillary also has this new invention called a cell phone and may well have been talking to the interested parties days before... "Clinton as well as US President Barack Obama have been in touch with Egyptian, Israeli and European leaders in the past days, Nuland said."