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Home Front: Politix
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu killed the peace process
2011-09-23
I put this under Opinion because, while the the Foreign Policy reporter is doing nothing more than delivering former President William Jefferson Clinton's statement, that statement is considerably more opinion than fact. Before reading this, I considered the honourable gentleman highly intelligent but immoral. Now I can't decide if he's dumb and deluded or just plain lying like his Democratic colleague, the former president James Earl Carter.
Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Clinton, in a roundtable with bloggers today on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, gave an extensive recounting of the deterioration in the Middle East peace process since he pressed both parties to agree to a final settlement at Camp David in 2000. He said there are two main reasons for the lack of a comprehensive peace today: the reluctance of the Netanyahu administration to accept the terms of the Camp David deal and a demographic shift in Israel that is making the Israeli public less amenable to peace.
Read the rest at the link. I was going to fisk it, but Elliott Abrams does a much better job here.
Mr. Bill hoped to make a huge mark in the history books with his Camp David talks between Barak and Arafat. Didn't work. He's been pissed ever since.
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  IIRC Benji was on FOX NEWS this AM stating that Israel is willing to accept the gener concept of a negotiated, sovereign Paleo State at peace wid Israel, but that the Paleos OTOH want a sovereign "State wid NO PEACE", i.e. a Nation-State still engaged in permanent existential war agz Israel.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-09-23 22:04  

#12  What bullshit.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-09-23 17:04  

#11  Clinton gave an extensive recounting of the deterioration in the Middle East peace process since he pressed both parties to agree to a final settlement at Camp David in 2000.

At the time, I thought Arafat rejected terms that very favorable to the Palestinians. It was Israel's fault that things fell apart? It had nothing to do with the Palestinians or the Iranians and Syrians or Hamas or Hezbullah?
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-09-23 17:04  

#10  Fishing for petrodollar contributions to Hillary's 2012 campaign?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-09-23 12:53  

#9  "Peace process"? There is no "peace process". This is a war process you half wit.
You were another knuckle headed president without a clue - and you still have no clue. STFU and go climb under your rock.
Posted by: newc   2011-09-23 12:08  

#8  
Netanyahu was elected because the peace process was dead.

When the sane man stops appeasing the mad man his actions start to look provocotive to the assinine man.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2011-09-23 10:19  

#7  Aren't all donks anti-semites?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-09-23 09:38  

#6  Seems that good old BJ Bill is giving out the BJs these days to the Arabs just like his good buddy BJ Jimmy.
Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous   2011-09-23 09:34  

#5  Bill Clinton sold out the USA to the Chinese. Selling out Israel to the Muslims should be a piece of cake.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-09-23 08:32  

#4  Teh continual targetting and murder of innocent civilians by the Palieos does have a tendancy of killing 'peace processes'. Not to mention failure to fulfill a single one of their oblications.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-09-23 07:47  

#3  This should be a lesson to everyone who thinks Hillary! is the answer to all the problems Zero is creating or nurturing at the moment.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-09-23 07:45  

#2  There was no "ME Peace process". Hence nothing's killed. Hudna... maybe.
Posted by: twobyfour   2011-09-23 03:17  

#1  FOAD, you slimy pervert.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-09-23 01:13  

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