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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders had this to say regarding the shooting. [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)Now I thought that her largest turnout was her Roosevelt Island gathering which her own campaign estimated as having a 5,500 attendance. How could I have missed what you describe as "her 10K attendance rally?" So I googled Hillary Clinton and 10,000 and rally and this is what I came up with:
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/hillary-takes-hits-10-000-rally-israel-article-1.887732 So what and where was this rally you referred to, if not this one?
HILLARY TAKES HITS AS 10,000 RALLY FOR ISRAEL
BY William Goldschlag
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, October 13, 2000, 12:00 AM
Shouting over jeers from many of the 10,000 at a pro-Israel rally, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged support yesterday for her husband's efforts "to end the violence" as well as for the embattled Jewish state. But her Senate opponent, Rep. Rick Lazio, ripped the Clinton administration for not placing the blame for the current conflict solely on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Blasting the U. S. decision to abstain and not veto a UN Security Council resolution that slammed Israel, Lazio asked, "Is this any way to treat a friend?
" "There must be no equivocation," said Lazio, who won cheers and shook hands in the crowd jamming Second Ave. from 42nd to 48th Sts. Mayor Giuliani also bashed the Clinton administration for being too soft on Arafat and the Palestinians. Other speakers at the demonstration included Gov. Pataki, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert. The Mideast turmoil has created an October surprise in the Senate race. It is an opportunity for Lazio and a danger for the First Lady in the battle for Jewish votes, because she and President Clinton long treated Arafat as a credible partner for peace. Clinton's poll numbers among Jews are at an all-time high. But she got there only after arduous fence-mending following her infamous kiss of Arafat's wife in Ramallah last year. The hard-liners who booed her yesterday likely would oppose her no matter what, though. "A zebra doesn't change her stripes, and I don't trust her," said Tobie Newman, 75, of Freeport, L.
I. But with each escalation of the violence, her campaign grows more anxious that her support among a broader spectrum of Jews could be shaken. "She needs to be extremely supportive of Israel," said Dr. Peggy Wurm, 43, of Manhattan, a Clinton supporter at the rally. "The old baggage from the past is there. It's hard for people to get it out of their minds," said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) from Israel, where he was caught up in a battle at a funeral procession for a slain rabbi Wednesday. Hikind, a political conservative, said the turmoil he witnessed will influence his decision on whom to support. The First Lady broke with her husband Sunday over the UN abstention and has refused to join administration critics of some Israeli actions. Since White House-sponsored peace talks broke down in July, her criticism of Arafat has grown harsher. Yet when she called yesterday on Arafat to end the violence and denounced the "shameful" and "one-sided" UN resolution, some in the crowd chanted, "Tell your husband.
" Another person yelled, "Go kiss Arafat's wife.