In her speech to the Saban Center last week, Hillary Clinton bragged about visiting an Israeli settlement, Gilo. Well you can see Gilo in the video below, at :22-1:20. It’s the colony of white houses in the background, with red roofs.
The video was shot last month in the neighboring Palestinian village of Walaje, whose lands are occupied by Gilo and greater Jerusalem.
The man in the video is Abu Nidal, 65, a Palestinian farmer and landowner. Israel is building its wall across his lands, far away from the Green Line. And Abu Nidal must go through a special tunnel under the wall in order to visit the graves of his father, mother and grandmother.
You can see the foundation of the wall in the first minute. Then we go thru the tunnel, and Abu Nidal is overcome by the enormity of the situation at 3:00 or so, and at 4:00 he says:
“What do you think I feel? Do you think there is a greater kind of oppression? The feeling is that the whole world is hypocritical and justice is lost. As if we are in a jungle, and it’s the survival of the fittest. The rabbit is eaten by the lion.”
Here is what Hillary Clinton said about Gilo and the special relationship with Israel:
I’ve held hands with the victims of terrorism in their hospital rooms, visited a bombed-out pizzeria in Jerusalem, walked along the fence near Gilo. And I know with all my heart how important it is that our relationship go from strength to strength.
“I’ve held hands with the victims of terrorism in their hospital rooms, visited a bombed-out pizzeria in Jerusalem, walked along the fence near Gilo. And I know with all my heart how important it is that our relationship go from strength to strength.”
She’s no different to Romney with his “providence has been kind to Israel”
or Lieberman wondering how anyone living on less than 10K per annum could have time for Rousseau.
I met a farmer once whose olive field put 4 kids through university and the Bots razed it.
Zionism isn’t Jewish destiny. It’s nihilism.
With comments like this it can’t be too long before Hillary makes a speech in Las Vegas and …. “oh, Mr. Adelson, what a surprise. How nice to see you. Of course we can have lunch …. just the two of us.”
as he was speaking those words you blockquoted my heart sank. completely succinct, completely. oh god when will this be over. also when he answers your question about security:
Just read Clinton’s whole speech at the Saban event. As has always been the case she is a pure neo con suck up. Hillary Clinton is a neocon. From her vote for the Iraq war resolution, to her willingness to ignore Israel’s illegal activities and how they constantly interfere with an agreement, to her persistent unsubstantiated claims about Iran there is not a doubt in my mine she would bomb Iran if she had the chance. In my book she is right with Bush 43’s administration on foreign policy issues. Far worse than her husband would ever be. She is a chicken shit war hawk. If Hillary was a man saying what she says about the middle east the liberals would go ape shit. But because she is a woman who supports war and many women are so desperate to see a woman get in there they may choose to forget her warmongering but many of us will not. The only way Clinton can win is via money and being a woman. If she does run millions of us will rub her face in her bloody war vote, her support for Israel no matter how what they do threatens US national security and her desire to attack Iran.
She could have simply said after she banged on the go get Iran war drums, bad bad Syria, and blamed everyone in the neighborhood for the problems that Israel has created. After kissing everyone in the rooms ass over and over again she could have simply said and Israel’s settlement building sure does not help the situation. So polite, so true. Does she think she would have been crucified for telling the truth?
She did not mention settlements AT ALL
go from strength to strength
Psalms 84. Hallelujah! Hear that, Fundies (and you know the rest of that verse, don’t you)?