Dear Hillary supporters, how can you trust her on issues of war and peace?

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82. The war in Gaza is one she signalled Bibi he could wage and never say he was sorry.

No, sorry, your statement that she made peace between Israel and the Palestinians is simply not true. She laid the groundwork for that war and then said that Israel had simply an innocent victim. She's also used exactly the same language as Netanyahu to justify cutting off the possibility of a two-state solution:

Netanyahu:

“There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the Jordan River.”

- Press Conference, July 11, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/benjamin-netanyahu-palest_n_5598997.html

HRC: “If I were the prime minister of Israel, you’re damn right I would expect to have control over security,” Clinton said of the West Bank, citing the need to “protect Israel from the influx of Hamas or cross-border attacks from anywhere else.”Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, Aug 10 2014,
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/hillary-clinton-failure-to-help-syrian-rebels-led-to-the-rise-of-isis/375832/


On UN General Assembly Vote to recognize Palestine (11/29/12) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240755/Palestine-UN-statehood-vote-Hillary-Clinton-says-upgraded-status-unfortunate-counterproductive.html

HRC:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rebuked the United Nations General Assembly's vote to recognize a Palestinian state, calling it an ‘unfortunate and counterproductive’ move that further obstructs the path to a peaceful agreement between Palestine and Israel.

Netanyahu:

Netanyahu called the vote ‘meaningless’.
Abbas had told the General Assembly that it was ‘being asked today to issue the birth certificate of Palestine.’ Abbas said the vote is the last chance to save the two-state solution.
After the vote, Netanyahu said the U.N. move violated past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians and that Israel would act accordingly, without elaborating what steps it might take.

Netanyahu:

At a press conference on July 11, 2014, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the Jordan River.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/benjamin-netanyahu-palest_n_5598997.html

On responsibility for the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2014 and accusations that Israel’s military response to rocket launches from Gaza was disproportionately violent: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/hillary-clinton-failure-to-help-syrian-rebels-led-to-the-rise-of-isis/375832/
HRC:

“There’s no doubt in my mind that Hamas initiated this conflict. … So the ultimate responsibility has to rest on Hamas and the decisions it made.”

On efforts of the Obama Administration to pressure Netanyahu to accept Palestinian statehood and accept a two-step solution, Clinton’s views are closer to AIPAC than Obama. She repeatedly casts Israel as the victim in the conflict and international criticism as inspired by antisemitism:

“What you see is largely what Hamas invites and permits Western journalists to report on from Gaza. It’s the old PR problem that Israel has. Yes, there are substantive, deep levels of antagonism or anti-Semitism towards Israel, because it’s a powerful state, a really effective military. And Hamas paints itself as the defender of the rights of the Palestinians to have their own state. So the PR battle is one that is historically tilted against Israel.”

Writing in The New Yorker, John Cassidy asks is “The Hillary Doctrine: “Smart Power” or “Back to the Crusades”?

These statements will have delighted Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, whom Clinton defended several times in the interview. She even endorsed Netanyahu’s recent suggestion that Israel would never give up security control of the West Bank, a statement that some analysts have seized upon as the death knell for the two-state solution. “If I were the prime minister of Israel, you’re damn right I would expect to have control over security,” Clinton said of the West Bank, citing the need to “protect Israel from the influx of Hamas or cross-border attacks from anywhere else.”

Hillary is no peacemaker and is hardly a forceful advocate for the Obama Administration - she agrees with Bibi's rationale for why Israel will not allow a two-state solution.