After her three day public relations visit to Pakistan resulted in her accusing the Pakistani government, a key US ally, of secretly hiding al-Qaeda and left a large number of Pakistanis quite a bit more angry at the US than when she got there, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left the region to head to Israel.
And it wasn’t long before America’s top diplomat was causing problems there as well. Following a high profile meeting with hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton praised the Israeli government’s offer to temporarily delay in new construction permits in the West Bank as “unprecedented,” and chided the Palestinians for demanding an actual halt to construction in the occupied territories.
Now the Palestinains say that Clinton’s visit has in fact undermined what little progress was being made in the first place. PA officials maintain that there is no point in entering negotiations so long as Israel keeps expanding its settlements.
The Obama Administration appeared to previously take a similar position, repeatedly demanding Israel freeze its settlements entirely. Secretary Clinton was at the forefront of making these demands at the time, but now that the Obama Administration has abandoned any pretense of pressuring the Israeli government she appears to have jumped on that bandwagon as well. Her next stop is in Morocco where she will meet with Arab Foreign Ministers.
Hillary Clinton should rezion her postion she the most incompetent seratary state we ever had.She is a political prostitute, in pocket of Israeli Lobby.
I agree Clinton is outright stupid
Hillary Clinton has always undermined the peace process in favor of Israel. Nothing new there.
Clinton calling delay 'unprecedented' exposes the utter weakness of the US position, vis-a-vis, not Israel itself but the pro-Israeli lobby in the US. The Peace Process continues to be the destruction of the Palestinian people process. It has now become part of the process of the mounting war on Iran which will surely result in millions killed, mostly in Iran. All this so that a few thousand Jewish settlers can enjoy the pleasure of building their homes in Palestine territory.
Hillary Clinton is a very talented and intelligent lady who: demonstrated against the Vietnam War; worked on the Watergate investigation; became First Lady; championed national health care reform; became a US Senator; ran for president; sought the support of "White" voters; said she would not withdraw because she was waiting for Obama to be assassinated; became Secretary of State – and transformed into an angry, hard-talking, two-fisted pawn of the neocon miltary-industrial-pro-Israel lobby.
Just like when my country abandon the U.S.Navy sailors killed and wounded by ISRAEL knowingly ATTACKING the USS LIBERTY. Now my country has caved to the Zionist War Machine. Israel is not our friend! REMEMBER the LIBERTY!!!
This is round number ONE. The neoconservatives (many former leftist believe it or not) kept things messy and lose to the Democrats. The Democrats try to fix things, and then get bogged down. Isn't Intervention wonderful.