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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Someone should ask if she plans to return it.....tee hee!
Look at Al Sharpton. He was in Atlanta last week and said something along the lines of 'We owe America nothing, America owes Us.' By and large, although he does have a following, this type of rhetoric keeps the rest of the country from taking him very seriously. But Hillary comes out smelling like a rose each and every time.
This is such an insult to anyone in NYC, DC and in Israel. Not to mention the families of all of those murdered on 9/11. Her husband freed the FALN TERRORISTS for votes.
To pull out a line from the bubba years "Where is the Outrage!!" When will her constituents demand accountability? Where was this resolve during the bubba years? (And although I hate to ask, has bubba weighed in on this?)
Ok -- let's start with a mirror, then your own husband's Administration...
The answer, my friend
You can go to zolatimes.com go to the writer's index. Look in the writer's index under Robert L. Kocher. Get the chapters of the ongoing series entitled Hillary America as a Battered woman and Clinton Must be Stopped. That's the honest accurate explanation. But it still boggles my mind. And my prediction is she will become president.
I believe one of Hitlery's orcs overheard tidbits of W's meeting with Ariel, and upon telling the mistress, she realizes Arafat is toast. Rather than being forever recalled as a lover of the failed (was that dead, or just exiled?) PA-head, despite being that "peace process" Nobel prize winner, as she one day aspired to be, she rightly sees that Yasser has never and will never amount to anything.
Principles mean nothing, the past means nothing, and friendship means nothing (Right, Vince?).
She's no more valuable than scum on a two-inch wide puddle!
HF
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