Posted on 12/02/2001 6:03:07 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
Shes doing the fence straddling carpetbagger crap again IMHO. Stay Safe !
So that "HER HUSBAND COULD PARDON THEM SO THAT SHE COULD GET ELECTED". It would be better if SHE JUST KEPT HER MOUTH SHUT instead of making an IDIOT of herself. This is an INSULT to families who have lost loved ones. The CLINTONS ARE TERRORISTS themselves! The only difference is that they NEVER take responsiblity for it. They just hide behind other people saying they had nothing to do with it. GO AWAY CLINTONS!!!
How will New Yorkers put up with this for years? It was bad enough having to listen to Bill Clinton run our state. I don't know if I could tolerate Hillary Clinton running it. GAG, BARF, SPIT!
IF you ONLY knew!
Israeli officials in general were upset with American Jewish leaders who were critical of the peace process (US Rally). Prior to his assassination, Yitzhak Rabin expressed a desire that American Jews stay out of Israeli politics and focus more on benevolence for those who want to emigrate to Israel. Many were upset by these comments, but Malcolm Hoenlein defended Rabin, saying that he was simply being misunderstood. Hoenlein felt that Rabin was merely raising important issues which needed to be discussed (US Rabin). Following Rabin's assassination, Hoenlein and the Conference of Presidents organized an apolitical rally in New York to demonstrate the unity of American Jews.
In a new gifts twist, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reportedly showered Bill and Hillary Clinton in gold and diamond necklaces, bracelets and earrings - $12,000 in gifts in all. In addition, Arafat gave former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright jewelry worth $17,400, according to this week's New York Observer, which also reports the gifts to the Clintons.
The Clintons didn't take the gifts with them, so they were sent to the National Archives with other offerings from world leaders, said aides to the former president and Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.).
State Department spokesman Nick Griffith said he didn't know what happened to Arafat's gifts to Albright.
The Clintons were required to disclose all the gifts they kept when they left the White House - and the revelation that they tried to walk off with some gifts that were meant for the White House, not them personally, sparked a gifts-grab controversy that prompted them to return some gifts.
On their disclosure forms, there weren't any gifts listed as having come from Arafat, the Palestinian leader who has been strongly criticized - nearly to the point of being ostracized - by President Bush for Mideast violence.
By MARILYN HENRY and JAY BUSHINSKY
NEW YORK (May 8) - Stepping away from the official US position, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told a group of Israeli and Arab youths that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state.
In remarks released yesterday by US officials, Clinton said: "I think it will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state, and for it to be a state that is responsible for its citizens' well-being ... a state that has to accept the responsibility of governing."
"I think that is very important for the Palestinian people, but I also think it is very important for the broader goal of peace in the Middle East," Clinton added.
The remarks were made Wednesday during a question-and-answer session to a gathering of 75 Arab and Israeli youths in Villars, Switzerland. Clinton spoke via satellite from Washington.
They prompted measured expressions of concern among Israeli officials and American Jewish leaders, with the latter questioning Clinton's timing and motives.
Both the White House and State Department denied yesterday that Clinton was breaking new ground in US policy on a Palestinian state, saying that she was merely expressing her own opinion.
"That view expressed personally by the First Lady is not the view of the president" and is "not part of any kind of calculated strategy," White House press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters.
In Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aviv Shir-On said he had taken heard the disclaimer. However, he added: "It is important for Mrs. Clinton to know that many Israelis regard an independent Palestinian state as a danger to the State of Israel."
In New York, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said that "it is unfortunate that Mrs. Clinton's comments came at a sensitive stage of the negotiating process.
"While we appreciate the administration's dissociating itself from these comments, they certainly will raise questions about whether this constitutes a shift in policy, a tactical decision or an off-the-cuff remark that runs counter to long-established policy," he said.
Mel Salberg, chairman of the President's Conference, termed Clinton's remark " an unfortunate statement at this delicate time."
"For the First Lady to make this kind of statement could have a significant impact," Salberg said.
Twenty-four Israeli high school students joined Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian and American teenagers at the conference, called the Middle East Youth Summit, organized by the Washington-based Seeds for Peace Organization.
Clinton urged the young people to exercise caution during their military service.
While countries must defend themselves, she said, "I think it is very important to always ask yourselves, 'Is what I am being asked to do honest and right and ethical?'" (Hillary Clinton asking if anything is ETHICAL is a SICK JOKE!!!)
For the last week, the youths have been meeting in the Swiss resort to develop a "Charter of Villars," which was expected to be a set of principles for Middle East peace.
The charter, which was scheduled to be completed last night, will be distributed to government leaders in the Middle East, and to the US and UN, a spokeswoman for the conference said.
The conference also hosted dignitaries from the region, including former prime minister Shimon Peres, coalition chairman MK Meir Sheetrit (Likud), Palestinian Minister Saeb Erekat and Jordan's Queen Noor.
© The Jerusalem Post
Thanks for the post...
From the mouth of DUh...
Will they take Hillary's comments seriously, or will they still try to blame everything on her husband?
They have such an irrational hatred for her and anything remotely Clinton-like, that I'm sure they'll dismiss her comment as bandwagoning and politicking (yeah, like no GOP hack is ever guilty of politicking...sheesh).
Seems the left has forgotten their buddy Arafat since these latest attacks in Israel...
They called her a hack, not me.
Just imagine ol' crusty in the same room with him.
Regards,
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