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Hillary Clinton equates ISIS and Hamas

The argument that the U.S. and the west are finally undertaking the war Israel has been fighting for years is of course a major theme of pro-Israel commentary post Paris. Militant Israeli policies re Palestinian resistance are being offered as a role model to the west; and the Palestinian political party Hamas is being put on the same plane as ISIS– a longstanding propaganda claim of the Israeli prime minister, or as long as ISIS has been in the news.

Hillary Clinton echoed that point in her Council on Foreign Relations speech yesterday:

In September I laid out a comprehensive plan to counter Iranian influence across the region and its support for terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas. We cannot view Iran and ISIS as separate challenges. Regional politics are too interwoven. Raising the confidence of our Arab partners and raising the costs to Iran for bad behavior will contribute to a more effective fight against ISIS.

And as we work out a broader regional approach, we should of course be closely consulting with Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East

Clinton is surely mindful of the views of the big Democratic donor Haim Saban, who gave an interview yesterday saying Muslims must be subject to “more scrutiny,” and that Clinton is “absolutely made of steel and she will take no baloney from no ISIS.” Meanwhile on NPR, Andrea Bernstein defended Clinton’s “cautiously hawkish” positions by saying that the Republicans are a lot more bellicose– so she can’t be that bad.

David Bromwich criticized that tendency in a piece about Clinton and Libya on Huffpo. The Democratic candidates, he said, arrive at the subject of foreign policy “late, short of facts and slogans compared to the Republicans, and lacking in any critical sharpness.”
The result: they defend vaguer, slower, thinner versions of policies urged by Republicans. Until they recognize that foreign policy sets the limits of domestic policy, they will never compete with the exigent reasons a party for war can manufacture with the greatest of ease. A halfway intelligent US policy toward the Middle East and Israel won’t be possible until this larger political imbalance is corrected.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not late. He has been working the Paris moment to explain that the west and Israel are in the same war, against beasts of radical Islam prowling the streets and waterways, as he told a French official:
And we stand shoulder to shoulder, committed to defend our common civilization.

It’s difficult for civilized men and women to recognize that our cities, our airways, sometimes our waterways are prowled by beasts that devour the innocent in their way. And the forces of civilization, when they realize the severity of this problem, have no option but to unite very clearly and defeat these beasts.

The argument is parroted by Gerald Skolnik, the head of a Jewish center in Queens, in the Jewish Week. He wonders why the west never resolved to bomb Hamas and the PLO “into oblivion.”

It is certainly true that ISIS has been a thorn in the side of the civilized world since its inception, and has displayed an almost incomprehensible cruelty with its kidnappings and beheadings…. It richly deserves to be bombed into oblivion, and beyond,

But is Hamas less cruel? Or Hezbollah? Or, for that matter, their godparent, the PLO?…

At the end of the piece, he says that Israelis are “us,” because his Israelis are Jews of course:

Even as we grieve with Paris and her citizens, it’s important to remember that Israelis have been stabbed on streets, shot in cars, and assaulted on mass transit in Jerusalem and around Israel for weeks now, and none of the West’s major powers have done more than utter tepid condemnations. Yes, grieve for France. But the perspective of a wider lens is called for: one that includes us.

Finally, what about this in Hillary Clinton’s speech. Doesn’t it apply to Israel as much as to Syria?

we have indicated a willingness to work with [Russia] toward an outcome that preserves Syria as a unitary nonsectarian state with protections for the rights of all Syrians, and to keep key state institutions intact.

And there was this comment on the Arab Spring. Many of these explosive conditions exist in Israeli-controlled Palestine as well

I spoke about the foundations of the region sinking into the sand just as the Arab Spring was breaking. And I did so not knowing about the Arab Spring coming to full bloom, but because it was so clear that what was being done by dictatorships, by the denial of opportunity, by the repression, by the sectarian divide just could not stand. It was going to explode at some point or another.

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News flash Hillary… Iran. Hezbollah and Hamas are leading the fight against Isis. How can someone so ignorant aspire to be the leader of the freaked? How could a room of ostensibly foreign policy wonks not challenge her? Has the government so obfuscated the situation as to render critical thinking impossible?

Clinton, “In September I laid out a comprehensive plan to counter Iranian influence across the region and its support for terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas”. Of course the way she wants to counter them is to have proxy forces like the Free Syrian Army and AlQaeda fighting those influences on America’s behalf. Unfortunately for Hillary, the Russians and Iranians got there first, legally [invited by the Syrian government] and are in the process of smashing the ‘good ‘ and ‘bad’ US terrorist proxy forces. She like McCain probably wants to arm the “moderate” terrorists with stinger missiles see http://sputniknews.com/us/20151020/1028835944/us-stingers-missiles-syrian-rebels-mccain.html Here again the FSA [if they exist and are probably rarer than unicorns] sell US weapons and generally cooperate with not so moderate groups, [this is a proven fact]. The bottom line is the so called ‘arc of extremism’ Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Iraq and now Russia are winning hands down, and the US does not know what to do. What Hillary and other warmongers omit to mention are that those stinger missiles and other weapons like the TOW anti tank missiles supplied to so called moderates will inevitably fall into more extremists hands, in that case US and Israeli civilian aircraft will have to steer clear of the middle east.

… In September I laid out a comprehensive plan to counter Iranian influence across the region and its support for terrorist proxies …

Iranian “influence” and “support for terrorist proxies” is bad.

Israeli influence and Israeli terrorism, oppression, devastation, murder, supremacism, expansionism, colonialism, intransigence and belligerence – all undertaken not by “proxies” but by Israel itself – is good.

Mrs. Clinton is a hateful and immoral Zio-supremacist.

Maybe someone can forward the following article to Hillary it will help explain things https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/19/tangled-threads-of-us-false-narratives/

So Ms would be President Clinton. The question is are you speaking from 1) the bottom of your heart or 2) the bottom of your campaign purse. The answer is you have guessed it is 2).

Absolutely gruesome knee jerk grovelling to the Zionist paymasters yet again with no attempt whatsoever to engage whatever brain she has got before opening mouth – but no great surprise.

As for Nitay Nitay Bang Bang`s ” And we stand shoulder to shoulder, committed to defend our common civilization”. Please please slither back into whatever slime coated mental recess you retreat to on occasion. You and your ilk have nothing repeat nothing in common with the true western civilisation which I come from and live in , unlike the many hundreds of thousands of decent honest and law abiding Muslims and Jews with whom I am proud to share that civilisation .