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Clinton Reinvents Israel

by Elliott Abrams
September 24, 2011

Bill Clinton made some intemperate and inaccurate remarks about Israel last week, and I discussed them in an article in The Weekly Standard.  It begins this way:

Bill Clinton today blasted Benjamin Netanyahu, blaming the Israeli prime minister for the lack of progress toward peace with the Palestinians. The errors and misstatements in Clinton’s interview with bloggers are sufficient to change his reputation from that of a firm supporter of Israel into that of a firm supporter of Israelis who agree with his twisted version of the facts. Clinton simply blames the Israeli right for killing peace efforts. He appears entirely—in fact, embarrassingly— unaware of what has actually happened to the Israeli right over the last ten years, where the change has been extraordinary.

Read the whole article here.

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  • Posted by Dan Friedman

    Clinton has set a course to be the new Jimmy Carter.

  • Posted by Dean Smallwood

    What we have in Bill Clinton is a thoroughly benighted mucker who will offer an opinion for a fee . The last thing the Israeli / Palestinian Conundrum needs is a ” Political Streetwalker ” who apparently doesn’t realize that he disgraced himself a long time ago and has become irrelevant .

  • Posted by Maine's Michael

    Clinton has been disinhibited in public statements and somewhat erratic since his cardiac surgery.

    It is a known phenomenon, related to showers of micro emboli reaching the brain during cross clamping of an aorta made crusty and unstable by disease, during the bypass procedure.

    It manifests as reduction in cognition, disinhibition, lability of emotion. Not enough to be dramatic, but enough to result in changed patterns of thought and behavior. Look it up. The medical slang for it is ‘pump head’.

    It would explain his tool-like comments. They are the real Bill, just that he is now disinhibted enough to express them.

  • Posted by Donna

    You may amuse yourself’s with references to his health and how he is not relevant b/c his opinion is not your own, but many people believe the Palestinians have a right to a country of their own.
    It will be so funny when the bid for statehood is voted on and it passes. Israel you’ve missed the boat ( and I don’t mean the aid boat where you slaughtered 9 people including an American)!

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