Gaza’s Obama campaign

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   idredit on April 3, 2008 at 9:43 pm

   “unless you support Israel, you can’t get into the White House” from the video

   “As for McCain and Hillary, who are by now recognized as right wing Likudniks of the worst kind, forget it.”

   How true.

   but Hillary does have a problem. scary.

   MoJo:Hillary Clinton’s Little-Noticed Israel Problem

   HRC’s position on Israel could mean a significant departure from longstanding U.S. policy. How come no one cares?

   “Hillary Clinton believes that Israel’s right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned.” With the phrase “an undivided Jerusalem as its capital,” Clinton seems to take a hardline position on a deeply contested facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a position like this should have garnered at least passing interest from the mainstream media. So how come nobody’s paying attention?

   While Israel has declared the whole of an expanded Jerusalem its capital, the international community views east Jerusalem as occupied territory and the potential capital of any future Palestinian state. In recognition of the contested status of Jerusalem, the United States and other countries maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.

   “Jerusalem is not only of political, religious, and emotional significance to Palestinians. It’s the cultural and economic capital of any future state of Palestine. To carve out east Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine would be to deprive of it the geographic area which traditionally has been the heart of the Palestinian economy,” said Philip Wilcox, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who served as consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem and is now president of the Foundation for Middle East.

   ready to lead on Day One.

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     shergald on April 4, 2008 at 7:13 am

     Yes, ready from Day One to lead the Middle East and the Palestinian cause down the drain. Like McCain’s, her war-like rhetoric about Iran’s nuclear program is also scary.