Posted on 12/02/2001 6:03:07 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
Hillary Clinton takes aim at Arafat
By VERENA DOBNIK
The Associated Press
12/2/01 9:11 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned on Sunday that the United States would "root out" any terrorist elements in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority -- just as the Taliban became a U.S. target for harboring al-Qaida.
"The same message must be sent to the Palestinian Authority and to Chairman Arafat: Anyone who harbors or turns a blind eye to terror in their midst will be held accountable," said the senator.
She spoke after a series of weekend suicide bombings against Israel killed 25 people and wounded nearly 200, prompting Arafat to order dozens of Islamic militants arrested.
But Clinton was skeptical, blaming the Palestinian leader for the violence.
"This rests squarely on the shoulders of Yasser Arafat," she said, adding that he has continually refused to round up and imprison terrorists.
"No one is safe because the leadership of the Palestinian Authority refuses to take responsibility for the acts of terror that have occurred with increasing frequency," Clinton told reporters at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, where she was honored for her work in education by the American Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training.
The non-governmental ORT runs schools in Israel; three of this weekend's victims attended one of the schools, ORT officials said.
Clinton said Americans' outrage at the attacks is deeper since the Sept. 11 terrorism on their own soil.
She likened the Palestinian Authority to the Taliban as a protector of terrorists.
"The United States, with the president's leadership, has made clear that we will root out the al-Qaida network, and therefore had to root out the Taliban because of the comfort and support that they gave to the al-Qaida terrorist network," the senator said.
She was flanked by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, who also attended the dinner.
"What the president declared for Osama bin Laden in going thousands of miles away to fight, Israel will have to do just a few miles away," Hoenlein said.
He said many of the attacks against Israelis have been carried out by terrorists from organizations financed and supported by Arafat. The American Jewish official said more than half the attacks were perpetrated by members of the Palestinian leader's security and police forces.
The United States, Clinton said, would target any state or power "that does not bring about law and order in the territories that it controls and does not take the necessary steps that are required to imprison and prevent terror across their borders."
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Let's not forget that there are a significant number of Christians who blindly support "The Holy Land" too,and Buh-Bette! needs to tap into their funds and voting block.
Let's not forget that there are a significant number of Christians who blindly support "The Holy Land" too,and Buh-Bette! needs to tap into their funds and voting block.
Let's not forget that there are a significant number of Christians who blindly support "The Holy Land" too,and Buh-Bette! needs to tap into their funds and voting block.
Let's not forget that there are a significant number of Christians who blindly support "The Holy Land" too,and Buh-Bette! needs to tap into their funds and voting block.
Offhand,I'd have to say they are feeling pretty happy with themselves AND with Bubba and Buh-Bette. Not only are they out of jail WITHOUT criminal records thanks to Bubba's pardon,but this lack of a criminal record means they can apply for MORE gooberment educational grant money. Let's not forget the 50 MILLION bucks they stole is still missing,and nobody is asking where it went,either. That alone should be enough to make them pretty giddy about the whole thing!
Feel better? :-) Don't you hate it when that happens?
OOOPS! Let's not forget that Bubba Bush and Janet Ashcroft don't seem to be very interested in investigating the missing 50 million,either. This is yet one more reason for these "deeply religious persons" to be giddy with delight about buying the pardons. It's obvious Bubba Bush is terrified of the previous WH Bubba's.
Sorry #97 (and you ARE a sorry individual), you lost all credibility on THIS issue when you got 'kissy faced' with Arafat's wife after that harridan had claimed that the Israelis were gassing Palestinian children.
Yup,mine too. All she has to do is get Colin Powell for VP,and she is unbeatable. She will automatically get 75% of the women vote just because she is a woman,and Powell will guarantee her 99% of the black vote. Those are numbers that can't be beat.
We ARE a "special interest" country,run by people who all think THEY are "special",but who have no actual interest in the well-being of the country.
You just won the quote of the day.
Hillary...'root this!'
Don't kid yourself,Bert. Buh-Bette! ain't leaving the left (NOT "liberal"!). All she has done is TEMPORARILY abandoned the INTERNATIONAL leftist goal of destroying the Jewish state,and allied herself with the American left,which is largly funded by and supported by Jewish Americans. She is only doing this for political purposes,not because of any change in her globalist aims. As soon as she is elected president,she will start screwing the Jews again. When she is reelected,Israel ends as a sovereign nation. No big deal,since the US and all other nations will no longer be sovereign nations,either. It's all about a corporate fascist world,with the elite running it and the unwashed masses being good little cogs in the machine.
Arafat was the most frequent foreign visitor to the White House during the Clinton's time in office.
Who in the h*ll does she think she's fooling? Not this freeper.
Yup,I kept getting "server may be down,try again" messages
Pray you are right.
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