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Clinton: Israel must do more for peace
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Published: 16.04.10, 07:30
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1. Clinton says Israel must do more
Lioness ,   Israel   (04.16.10)
When the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish State and stop incitement everywhere including their school book.. When palestinians renounce violence, stops firing rocket/missiles and throwing rocks. When the Palestinians recognize that we Jews have a history in this region that goes back over 3000 way before Islam came into being. When the Palestinians start behaving like civilized human beings we can then sit with them and talk
2. Clinton has no moral ground on which to expect...
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (04.16.10)
...anything from Israel, none what-so-ever!!! It was Clinton who embraced Ms. Arafat after she accused Israel of systematically poisoning Arab children in the territories. It was Clinton who demanded that Jews, only because they are Jewish, refrain from moving into neighborhoods of their own capital city, which was what was expected of Jews in America during the days of segregation until the 1950s and 1960s. It was Clinton who stood by her boss, Obama, when the latter, for a full year, attempted to humiliate Israel's prime minister, one of Israel most important symbol of Jewish sovereignty in its own ancestral homeland. And it was Clinton who has said and did nothing when the Muslim-Arab leadership in Ramallah continue to name squares and streets after mass murderers of Jewish civilians. Ms. Clinton, you should apologize to the Jewish people within and without Israel before you demand anything of us, Jews!!
3. Ms. Clinton, Israel left Gaza in 2005 and owes nothing to
Avigdor Ezrahi ,   Israel   (04.16.10)
this territory whose leaders are mortal enemies of Israel. Instead of trying to blame Israel again and again, Ms. Clinton, you should propose that Gaza, bordering with Egypt - both are Arab territories - should be dealing with Egypt in meeting its "needs". Israel is considered by the rulers of Gaza a mortal enemy. The Gazans wish to annihilate Israel, so why expect Israel to do anything for this territory and its leaders?
4. Clinton: Israel must do more for peace
gregg bowman ,   Parksville, Canada   (04.16.10)
Israel has done and offered all they ever need do to initiate peace. The ball is and always has been in the Palestinian court. The naked truth is the Palestinians do not want peace, they want the destruction of Israel and we all know it. Clinton's views and opinions on the middle east are not based in reality. Very sad! warm regards...Gregg Bowman
5. Israel: Clinton must do less for peace
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (04.16.10)
Your meddling is counter-productive. Go away.
6. what more?????
aline ,   israel   (04.16.10)
What more does she have in mind? We left Gaza...and now????What exactly did we get in return????What The "MIGHTY" Israel do?????
7. Clinton
peace   (04.16.10)
She and the rest of the Obama administration are deluded. The current Arab thinking is only to destroy Israel . This has not changed ! There is not one peace partner in the Arab camp . Israel can only survive by not giving an inch
8. So far, US administration=abject failures
Janice Cohen ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.16.10)
9. First we want to see successful results
Vardina   (04.16.10)
of your policy in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. As soon as you are able to show successful results - come and tell us how clever you are. Until then - don' tell us what we should do. Go make a good cake in the kitchen instead. Kissing Jewish asses during election campaign is not enough. You should remember to keep your promises after the electiions as well.
10. Clinton must do more to appease Bin Laden
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11. Clinton must do more
Larry ,   Los Angeles   (04.16.10)
What does she want? That we should pack up and move to Aushwitz? Let her convince Hamas to release Shalit as a gesture of peace. Let her convince Iran to divest of nuclear weapons as a gesture of peace. Until she does that she certainly does not have our interests at heart. Let us tell this dumb broad to go back to the US of Mexico!
12. Go jump
YAkov   (04.16.10)
Not gonna happen. All israel belongs to us with or without the approval of some foreign politician
13. If receiving advice from a frustrated witch: do the opposite
Bruce Stein ,   Chicago   (04.16.10)
If Israel does the opposite of what these double agents suggest, Israel will probably have a positive outcome!
14. CLINTON SAYS
Jrodstein ,   Basalt, Colorado   (04.16.10)
" it must strengthen Palestinian institutions or risk empowering groups like Hamas" SHE FORGOT THAT HAMAS IS A PALESTINIAN INSTITUTION!!!!!!!
15. Obama's fatal flaw
Steven ,   L.A USA   (04.16.10)
Obama and Clinton seem to have one fatal flaw in their quest for imposing Middle East Peace. Neither has ever said how peace can be achieved with Hamas controlling Gaza. Do they advocate Abbas and Fatah going to war to liberate Gaza from Hamas or will Washington do it themselves? Until Obama puts forth a proposed solution on what to do with Hamas and the split in the Palestinian body politic, Israel should do nothing,
16. A summary os what she said
Ram ,   London   (04.16.10)
"If Israel does not help its mortal enemy, the Palestinians who do not even recognise it, by strengthening them, making ridiculous concessions to them, renounce claims of sovereignty, and halt construction in its own capital, then the Palestinian hateful mortal enemy will become even more hateful." Bravo Clinton! Now have coffee with Suha Arafat. Can anyone enlighten me on how this will bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace instead of making the Palestinians sit comfortably content that she is fighting their battle for them?
17. Clinton wants Israel to more for peace
Reuben ,   Brisbane Australia   (04.16.10)
Hillary Clinton has it within her powers to make the most postive contribution to Middle East peace that any world leader could make. Keep her ill-informed self out of the equation. What gave the US the right to meddle in this region anyway?
18. Fundamentally, it is for the Arabs to accept Israel's
Debbie ,   Ra'ananah, Israel   (04.16.10)
right to exist as the national home of the Jewish people and stop talking and writing about and preparing for the day they could erase it from the map. This, it seems, neither Obama nor Clinton have come to realize yet. And since they will not pay the price they demand of Israel to pay, they can continue doing so instead of first expect the Arabs to accept Israel's right to exist as the nation state of the Jewish people before all else.
19. First make peace with Bin-Laden!
clinto=wicked with ,   of the west!   (04.16.10)
20. To all STUPID American Jews: CLINTON has STOLEN your VOTES!
Leftist Jew=Dumb Jew   (04.16.10)
& MONEY!
21. No longer enough for Israeli politicans to say PEACE
Roni   (04.16.10)
No one buys the words alone anymore. Israel must act in order to restore its credibility.
22. Agree with Clinton
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (04.16.10)
Israel has to do more for peace. It was Rabin z"l who said that the only reason Arafat agreed to the Oslo accords in 1993 was that he realized that time was against him as Israel liberated more land from the Arab occupation. Once the Arabs see that any delay leads to them losing more, negotiations will begin. Once the Arabs see that the Jews believe this is their homeland and that the Jews are here to stay, negotiations will begin. To bring peace, Israel must commence immediate and intensive building of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, including the four Jewish villages destroyed by Sharon and Olmert in Northern Samaria. The Knesset should immediately pass an irrevocable basic law that ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria is an unpardonable crime against humanity and anyone facilitating such a move receives automatic life imprisonment or expulsion from areas under Israeli rule.
23. Israel must do more than nothing
Observer   (04.16.10)
All what Israel's right-wing government did throughout the last year was sabotaging efforts towards a negotiated solution.
24. Feeble Mid-East Policy
Victor Hassan ,   Canada   (04.16.10)
May she should take a cue from Bill Clinton, who got burnt dealing with the Palestinians. How is Israel "empowering" Hamas. Fatah couldn't could not or would not stop them.The US was silent when Hamas took hold of Gaza by force. They killed many of their own people. They were in reality empowered by funds from Iran and their leadership in Damascus, with Hezbollah as their fascist, racist role models. Obama's feeble policy is now empowering the haters even more. What can you say to Hamas regarding any peace moves? Nothing I'm guessing...same as with Iran. ..same as with Lebanon, another great country given up to fanatic terrorists, their president brazenly assassinated by the same people running Hamas, without a word about justice. Stop talking to the middle east altogether...and try to rebuild New Orleand and Detroit in your own yard.
25. #21: Credibility in whose eyes: yours? Hamas?
Vardina   (04.16.10)
Hezbollah? Bin Laden? Our enemies? We have to be credible among ourselves only, because our existence and safety depend on us alone. Since World War II we shall never again place our fate in someone elses hands, nor shall we go out of our way to gain anyone's sympathy or positive opinion of us. The game's name is survival, regardles whether you like or dislike us.
26. 23
Karinette ,   Netanya   (04.16.10)
This is a doing nothing status quo. Palestinians refused any of negotiated solutions including the one Ehud Barak offered them (which is exactly what they are asking for today and what they asked before). We offered peace several times, they refused. I don't want to live in war. I think that all israelis are dreaming of peace but as for now, not at any price. After all, it takes two to tango.
27. tough love
solemnman ,   israel   (04.16.10)
More tough love from Hillary- pushing us toward assisted suicide-for our own good-of course,
28. The woman knows little about the history of the conflict
Ruth ,   Seattle, WA   (04.16.10)
and the Arab refusal to live in peace with Israel, so on what basis does she have the right to demand of Israel to do more? How many Jews must be murdered before Clinton will be pleased that Israel has done enough? Clinton, combined with Obama have clearly overstepped the rights and if they continue on their path, I, a life long Democrat, will no longer vote for Obama - which I did in Nov. 2008 - and I question whether I will support the Democratic Party.
29. Clinton hate Jews cause her husband cheated on her with one?
Yaniv ,   Israel   (04.16.10)
Anyone who understands foreign policy politics and language of diplomacy, understands that Clinton just said screw you Israel.
30. # 28 thank you, Ruth! "How many (more) Jews must be murdered
Adina Peretz ,   Efrat, Israel   (04.16.10)
before Clinton will be pleased that Israel has done enough?" Indeed, how many more?
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