More evidence that we will see no push on Israel/Palestine in a second Obama administration. The New Yorker’s John Cassidy, on the Takeaway on Friday, was asked by John Hockenberry if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed the White House on any issue. Cassidy said:
Well that’s very interesting, John. There was a story out last week presumably leaked by some of the people around Hillary that some time last year she did make an effort to push the White Houee on the Arab Israeli conflict. One of the big gaps in her resume you would say is well, she didn’t do anything about solving the Middle East conflict. She did actually help broker.. a ceasefire in Gaza… That’s an achievement, shouldnt be forgotten, but you know there was no great Obama Hillary peace plan. Now her aides have now leaked that actually she pushed the White House to try and at least get Obama to define what the outlines of such a plan would be, but the White Houe pushed back. That shows, you know, the limits of her power within the administration really.
I don’t know what to make of that report, somehow doubt it. In one of her last media appearances, Clinton offered the usual pabulum.
The report is complete bullshit.
Hillary is running for office. Her speech at the Saban Center, which showed her craving to the lobby in depths that even Obama didn’t go to, was basically a huge kiss to the far-right Likudniks. Some ‘liberal’. I’m always amused when people think Hillary would have been a better president. She’s more of a centrist than Obama, and she would be a disaster on I/P. Dennis Ross would be back in the administration, of course.
Kerry might push for peace, but as Mearsheimer likes to say: it’s all for show.
The Israel lobby will never, ever, allow the kind of meaningful pressure to occur against Israel for there to be a genuine incentive. And within Israel, the settlers are now the mainstream, not a ‘lobby’. Lieberman, Bennett, even Lapid is campaigning from Ariel. It will never happen.
What they want now is a face-saving gesture. A smokescreen to continue to colonize. They understand it looks bad to the world.
But that’s a given. What isn’t a given is that Kerry wants to play these games.
Either he’s stupid, vain or actually knows perfectly well what he is doing, and decides to play along out of pure cynicism.
I can’t decide which is worse. But it’s possible he’s all of the above!
Humm…for some reason I’m not inclined to believe Hillary did much if any pushing on I/P. She seems to have turned into a true Zio believer or at least a true ‘political ‘ believer in Zio-dom.
I’d like to be a probe inO’s mind. Some might think Hagel was sign of O’s I/P sentiments but that’s not necessarily true, changing direction of fundamental US policy re military and wars of choice was probably the main part of the Hagel pick.
O is ignoring I/P…but why?….because he has caved to the Lobby and accepted I-Firstdom is the new America?………or in light of the Lobby ‘ disease in congress has he decided since he can’t buck their I-Firstdom his only way of defeating Isr, I-Firstdom is to let Israel destroy itself and let it be Europe’s and the Arab states problem and whatever happens happens.
If anyone is wondering if Hillary is planning to run for President. These are the clues…fear of doing anything
RE – “Report: Hillary pushed for Middle East peace deal, Obama wasn’t interested”
MY COMMENT: During the next four years, the Israeli-Arab conflict will be Obama’s “Chinatown”. He will do “as little as possible.” Expect to see a heavily camouflaged policy of “benign neglect”.
“I get burned once, shame on them; I get burned twice, shame on me!”
FROM THE 1974 FILM CHINATOWN:
SOURCE – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/quotes
Greater Israelists (in other words, Zionists) have successfully managed, manipulated, played, hamstrung, undercut, stonewalled, etc. every American administration from Truman through Obama. And their grip on the American government is more powerful now than ever — witness the Hagel hearing/lynching.
It is likely that future historians will reinterpret many major events in American history, from Truman through Obama, through the lens of pro-Israel political ops and maneuverings, many of them covert.