I hope Bill Clinton continues running his mouth!
Oh, were that but true.
So he’s Undead. That explains a lot.
The Palis always have Saudi Arabia....
Oh, puh-leeze, Bubba!
He’s telling the truth, though.
There was a deal on the table that would have created a Palestinian state with all of Gaza and 95% or more of the west bank area, plus trade lands to compensate for the other 5, and Yasser Arafat came back in the room and turned it down.
He knew that it would be the end of his life if he signed such a deal, because Hamas would have murdered him. When you make a good living being a terrorist, Peace is your enemy.
wonder how much that cost them?
By the looks of things he’d better hurry.
Hillary has to be cringing.
Leni
No, you’re still alive. But yeah, the Palis didn’t want peace after all... It doesn’t pay.
If only you had succeeded...preferably as a youth.
Crap. I thought the headline was a suicide note.
Well then, who’s stupider than you, Willy?
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. …The PLO admitted that there are no Palestinians, and that these non-Palestinians do not want a state but “Arab unity”, i.e. a Caliphate.
— Zuheir Mohsen, 1977
And yet you’re still alive.
Bill had struck a deal but made a cultural mistake. He continued to have Yasser Arafat as a guest, the White House’s most frequent one, as a matter of fact. So in Arafat’s culture, he believed he had the favor of the king and therefore didn’t have to settle for the deal he had agreed to. He was looking for a better one, based on what his many visits implied in his world view. Clinton was an idiot not to realize this. (Liberals believe they are so subtle and nuanced and knowledgeable that they never even try to learn more or learn from mistakes.)
There was a video clip of Ehud Barak, Arafat and Clinton in the Rose Garden. In middle eastern culture, the one who enters the door last is the important one. Not knowing this Clinton simply went in first, making him the least important. Arafat motions for Barak to go in next and Barak shakes his finger no. They wrestle and Barak, a beefy guy, throws Arafat through the door. Clinton turns around shocked and the Secret Service guy obviously doesn’t know what to do. Understanding what happened as far as they were concerned makes the clip hilarious. More subtle, nuanced diplomacy from idiots.
Frankly.....I think Clinton actually DID try like mad to achieve this and probably for mostly “the right” reasons. Maybe I am wrong.
He probably did not realize that the Pali negotiators were even bigger slimebags than he was.
If only.
He also tried “really hard” to give us a middle class tax cut too.
Try again.