{"id":90533,"date":"2016-03-21T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90533"},"modified":"2016-03-21T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:21:46","slug":"hillary-clinton-runs-to-the-right-of-donald-trump-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90533","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Runs To The Right Of Donald Trump On Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Mondoweiss<\/a>: If there was any doubt that Hillary Clinton is running to the right of Donald Trump on Israel, she removed it this morning with a fist-pumping hard-right speech to the Israel lobby group AIPAC that mentioned Israeli settlements just once, in passing, and continually derided the idea of American \u201cneutrality\u201d in the conflict, which Trump has embraced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need steady hands, not a president who says he is neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything is negotiable!\u201d Clinton said. In clear reference to Trump, she went on,\u201dWell my friends, Israel\u2019s security is not negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments were a clear reference to Trump\u2019s assertion that he wants to be neutral in what he says about the conflict because he aims to negotiate a deal between the sides as president, the hardest deal in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica can\u2019t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel\u2019s security and survival,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cSome things aren\u2019t negotiable. And anyone who doesn\u2019t understand that has no business being America\u2019s president.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was filled with red meat for Israel supporters. Clinton repeatedly denounced the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, BDS, as \u201canti-semitic\u201d\u2013 an effort to \u201cundermine Israel and the Jewish people.\u201d She thereby equated Israel and Judaism, an equation that AIPAC wants her to make, but which many Jews do not accept.<\/p>\n

She said that anti-Semitism was rife on American campuses and in Europe, and she told pro-Israel students: \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone try to silence you, bully you or try to shut down debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Often projecting an adamant posture in the speech, Clinton said she was willing to use force against Iran if it violates the Iran deal, praised Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, and promised to invite the PM to the White House in one of her first acts in office. She concluded the speech by thrusting her fist in the air as she vowed to take the relationship to the \u201cnext level\u201d so that Israel and the U.S. could face the future together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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