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The Obama Administration has been good to Israel. Unabated military assistance in supplying arms, joint intelligence operations and keeping the peace process walled up as the Israeli settlements blossom in Judea and Samaria. Read the press as their triumphant undertone cannot be misread.
Clinton Leaves Israel with ‘Peace Process’ in Lost Baggage
TEL AVIV, Israel (Israel National News) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came and went and nothing changed, not even the hot weather, except that the U.S.-led “peace process” was left behind in lost baggage.
The only question is if it was lost in Washington or Jerusalem.
Clinton arrived for her 24-hour visit to Israel almost at the same time that President Barack Obama admitted that his worse personal failure since being elected president was his inability to achieve the Palestinian Authority’s stated desire to be recognized as a new Arab country within Israel’s current borders.
« click for story Two previous presidents also failed.
Clinton uttered the usual platitudes for “Peace among Israel, the Palestinian people and all of Israel’s Arab neighbors,” but Obama said earlier this week what many Israelis have been trying to tell the United States for years. He admitted that an agreement between Israel and the PA “is something we focused on very early. But the truth of the matter is that the parties, they’ve got to want it as well.”
Israel is not about to meet Arab demands and expel 10 percent of its population from land that was restored to the Jewish state in the Six-Day War in 1967. The Palestinian Authority, buoyed by years of concessions by Israel, is not about to give up its dream of eliminating a Jewish majority in Israel by flooding the country with Arabs living in foreign countries and whom the United Nations defines as refugees.
Clinton’s visit to Israel did not even include the usual perfunctory five-mile journey to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority officials. Instead, she met with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the U.S. Consulate in what is called “East Jerusalem,” claimed by the PA as the future capital of their would-be state.
Referring to her visit to Egypt, where her motorcade was pelted with tomatoes on Sunday, Clinton said she was not offended but said jokingly that she felt bad so many tomatoes were wasted.
As for Clinton, she has had enough. She is leaving her post as Secretary of State in January, regardless of whether or not Obama wins another term.
Dozens Protest for Pollard Outside Clinton-Lieberman Meeting
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Foreign Ministry on Monday morning, as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The demonstrators were demanding the release of Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life for passing classified information to Israel.
Nissan Ganor, Head of the Committee to Bring Pollard Home, said that while Clinton’s visit, as well as the recent visits of other U.S. officials, deals mainly with Iran, the protesters came to express their demand that “if the U.S. wishes to demonstrate their friendship to Israel, then there’s no better way to do it than justice for Jonathan Pollard.”
Clinton herself addressed the Pollard issue later on Monday evening, telling reporters after her meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that she does not expect Pollard to be released.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."