Clinton Ignores Provocative Question on Israel, Defends 2-State Solution

[Purveyor]

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smartly averted a provocative question about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during a campaign event on Thursday.

During a campaign event at Brookland Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, a Hispanic woman from the audience asked Clinton why the U.S. is sending aid to Israel to “fund apartheid.”

“We spend too much money, $6 billion dollars to Israel funding apartheid! There is not the shared values that we are supposed to share with Israel!” the woman remarked at the end of a three-fold question.

Clinton smiled and ignored the questions, addressing the homeless issue for children, reforming the prison and criminal justice system.

Later on, Clinton said a two-state solution would be “the best outcome” to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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http://jpupdates.com/2015/07/23/clinton-ignores-provocative-question-on-israel-defends-2-state-solution/

[still_one]

1. She is stating the U.S. Policy, and contrary to what some here may believe Bernie has essentially the

same view toward a 2 state solution, and insuring the security of Israel

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Barack Obama on the deligitimization of Israel

On Israel, Obama endorsed, in moving terms, the underlying rationale for the existence of a Jewish state, making a direct connection between the battle for African American equality and the fight for Jewish national equality. “There’s a direct line between supporting the right of the Jewish people to have a homeland and to feel safe and free of discrimination and persecution, and the right of African Americans to vote and have equal protection under the law,” he said. “These things are indivisible in my mind.”


In discussing the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, he was quite clear in his condemnation of what has become a common trope—that anti-Zionism, the belief that the Jews should not have a state of their own in at least part of their ancestral homeland, is unrelated to anti-Jewish hostility. He gave me his own parameters for judging whether a person is simply critical of certain Israeli policies or harboring more prejudicial feelings.

“Do you think that Israel has a right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people, and are you aware of the particular circumstances of Jewish history that might prompt that need and desire?” he said, in defining the questions that he believes should be asked. “And if your answer is no, if your notion is somehow that that history doesn’t matter, then that’s a problem, in my mind. If, on the other hand, you acknowledge the justness of the Jewish homeland, you acknowledge the active presence of anti-Semitism—that it’s not just something in the past, but it is current—if you acknowledge that there are people and nations that, if convenient, would do the Jewish people harm because of a warped ideology. If you acknowledge those things, then you should be able to align yourself with Israel where its security is at stake, you should be able to align yourself with Israel when it comes to making sure that it is not held to a double standard in international fora, you should align yourself with Israel when it comes to making sure that it is not isolated.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/05/obama-interview-iran-isis-israel/393782/

[JaneyVee]

3. Pretty sure this is the view of all Democrats.

A 2 state solution.

[Luminous Animal]

4. Depends on how those two states look. Palestinians deserve their own unbroken borders...

Not a state chopped up and bisected with security checkpoints. They deserve the freedom of traveling to work, to shop, to visit family and friends without having to show their papers. They deserve a untied Palestine with no interference from an occupying army disrupting their civilian life.

[geek tragedy]

5. Unless it's Bernie, the next US President will revert to

George W Bush's policy of benign neglect on Israel/Palestine.

Plenty of lip service about oh gee some day wouldn't it be great if a two-state solution happened.

But nothing in terms of diplomatic efforts or pressure, with zero daylight between the US and Israel at the UN.

Hillary, Bush, Walker, Rubio will all be the same on I/P.

[delrem]

6. US supported SA apartheid to the bitter end.

Probably the last country on Earth to take Mandela off the "terrorist" list, and that was only because it made Bush look so incredibly bad. US is fighting like the dickens to keep the world from recognizing Palestine as a state. US is massively increasing military/economic support for Israel. US supports and supported genocidal war and unending siege against Palestinians in Gaza. US couldn't give a fart in a windstorm for the lives of Palestinians, or Arabs in general.

US is not a "fair broker", that's for sure, and "2-state solution" is the biggest lie on the planet.

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Nice non-answer, Hillary. But Bernie isn't much better on this issue.