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| 2009-11-02 |
| Marrakesh, Morocco_ After facing a barrage of press coverage that the U.S. has effectively sided with Israel in downplaying the issue of Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank in an effort to get Israel-Palestinian peace talks relaunched, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today walked back comments she made in Jerusalem at a late night news conference Saturday in which Hil bragged about the 95% settlement pause she had negotiated with Netanyahu next to a beaming and self-confident Israeli Prime Minister. Speaking at a luncheon meeting with Morocco's foreign minister in Marrakesh today, where Clinton is attending a conference of Arab foreign ministers, Clinton tried to clarify her previous remarks on the Obama administration's position on Israeli settlments. "Israel has done a few things but needs to do much more," Clinton said, adding that the Obama administration's position is that it does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlment activity. But she also said Israel has put some limitations on itself, which if acted upon would be "unprecedented." |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #3 Agreed, borgboy. The only reflection on Secretary Clinton is that she was so open about what she was attempting. But then, so has her boss been. Either she agrees with him or she is giving him more rope with which to hang himself. Bottom line, this administration is incompetent when it comes to international relations at any level beyond the embassy cocktail party. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-02 12:05 |
| #2 Nothing she could have offered the Arabs - save ENDLOSUNG - would have please the their beastial nature. They want Jews dead...period. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-11-02 10:35 |
| #1 Just another demonstration that the Hildebeast actually can't DO anything. She can talk, she can blabber, she can 'triangulate', she can scheme -- all qualities that should have kept her in the Senate. She's no executive. She can't make decisions, let alone good decisions, and she can't think problems through. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-11-02 09:38 |