Posted on 11/24/2014 10:20:07 AM PST by PROCON
While it is two full years before the 2016 US presidential race, the parade of possible candidates to Israel began Monday afternoon with a meeting by Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Warren, whose name has been mentioned as a possible challenger to Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination, arrived Saturday in Tel Aviv, and will also visit Ramallah and Amman. This is the first trip abroad for the senator, elected in 2012 and who has so-far concentrated largely on US domestic issues.
According to the Boston Globe, Warren has been among only a handful of senators who have not traveled abroad. The paper wrote that while the trip may “reignite speculation of a 2016 presidential run, Warren has been planning to travel to Israel for months.”
According tot he Boston Globe, “Warren’s foreign policy views seem to be anti-interventionist, with a skeptical eye to any US military action. In February, delivering her only major speech on foreign policy since she took office, she warned of using military might without considering the implications.”
In August during a meeting with constituents, the Globe said she was pressed on her support of Israel and her votes to send money to support its fight against Hamas, and said that Israel was being attacked “indiscriminately” and had a right to fight back even though civilian casualties were the “last thing Israel wants.”
“But when Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they’re using their civilian population to protect their military assets,” Warren was quoted as saying, “And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself.”
A plank on Israel that appeared on her website when she ran for senate in 2012 said that she believed Israel “must maintain a qualitative military edge and defensible borders.”
“The United States must continue to ensure that Israel can defend itself from terrorist organizations and hostile states, including Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others,” she wrote. “I also believe firmly that a two-state solution is in the interest of Israel and the United States. Lasting peace, however, requires negotiations between the parties themselves, and although the United States can and should aid in this process, we cannot dictate the terms. Unilateral actions, such as the Palestinians’ membership efforts before the United Nations, are unhelpful, and I would support vetoing a membership application.”
Other possible US presidential candidates are scheduled to visit in the coming months.
i’m sure Fauxcahontas will give BB a lecture...
Is there some requirement in the U.S. aid agreement with Israel that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must meet with any lying scum politician who wants to visit?
I hope and pray that this “moonbats” moonbat does ...she has done exactly nothing and knows less than nothing....I detest the morons in my former state for giving this idiot a soap box to stand on....but out of fairness I have to deal with the idiot Mainers sent in...King...dolt that he is....
Democrat politicians love to use the Israelis for photo-Ops before an election but turn to the Paletinians once they are elected.
Ug, Cheap Cherokee got “new car smell”.
Her supporters are probably the most anti-Israel people in America.
BB should first question what her stance on Jerusalem is... and then, after she answers, ask her what her REAL stance on it is, if she doesn’t mind telling the truth.
You're right.. Liberals are such jerks.
....”politicians love to use the Israelis for photo-Ops before an election”.....
Palin went there as well...I think they ALL like to cozy with Bi-Bi and actually a smart move IMO.
As for Warren...she’ll not beat Hillary...but I wonder if this isn’t a bait and switch thing and that Hilary isn’t going to run at all.
I disagree.
Warren will defeat Hillary and be the DNC nominee in 2016.
But she will be soundly defeated because this nation no longer wants a first-term, inexperienced, untried leader from the US Senate.
This nation craves an accomplished, documented, tested governor.
Which is why Scott Walker is our best choice.
Another “dreamer” with another dream.
Laughable...
A Democrat courting Israel. I’ll bet Israel has her number.
She has scented dice hanging from the rear view...
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She will swap her Cherokee tongue for Yiddish.
“Look at me, you know I’m Jewish somewhere in there. Bubbe was a yenta. Oy Vey!”
“Which is why Scott Walker is our best choice.”
And Ted Cruz as AG until Walker puts him on SCOTUS.
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Elizabeth has heard of Jews referred to as the Tribe. Wants to find out where there reservation is.
Consider the individual Hillary lost to in advance of her last coronation. It’s possible. And you’re right, H might not run, putting Elizabeth in the drivers seat.
...arrived Saturday in Tel Aviv, and will also visit Ramallah and Amman.Another warrior for peace, no doubt.
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