Hillary's hatred of Israel is a campaign vulnerability

Hillary Clinton essentially has been coronated the next Democratic nominee and first woman president of the United States 33 months before the 2016 election. This media-driven certainty ignores her many negatives, including the Benghazi debacle on her watch, the circus sideshow of her husband Bill, her tendency to give off an unlikable vibe, and the possibility that another green amateur could swoop in out of nowhere to defeat her in the primaries like Barack Obama did in 2008. There is also the issue of Israel

I know you are not naïve, but Hillary would throw Israel under the bus faster than 0bama.

If it was to her personal benefit, of course she would. When it comes to things like power hunger and narcissism she's no different than Obama. They'd betray anyone, anything, any nation, including our own. It's the motivation I was addressing.

Since absorbing Gaza isn’t a consideration to anyone, most people don’t think it would result in a palestinian majority, though the future demographics could be problematical I suppose. Actually there is support for a one state solution, mostly on the Israeli right. Things like the conditions for citizenship could be problematic. Arabs living in East Jerusalem have been eligible for citizenship since the 1967 war. It’s my understanding only a minority have taken up the offer, which is still open. I haven’t read Caroline’s book so I don’t want to mischaracterize what she’s proposing, but there have been proposals for partial annexation. I recall one from a decade or so that would have created a self governing area, but with Arabs having Jordanian citizenship, which obviously wouldn’t be practical, Jordan likely refusing. Or a transitional area, with the benefits of citizenship right to vote postponed to a future date when stability has been established. Personally I’d be skeptical of anything but a partial annexation, but I’m not an Israeli and don’t have to live with the results. There have also been suggestions that Arabs who wish would be financially rewarded to voluntarily relocate, also a likely non starter since no Arab state is going to take them. Obviously the two state concept isn’t workable as long as terrorists, quiet for now, run the West Bank.

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