I like Hilarys comments on Israel and will post it on the Alaska Democratic Party Progressive adjunct page: Much of my conversation with Clinton focused on the Gaza war. She offered a vociferous defense of Israel, and of its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well. This is noteworthy because, as secretary of state, she spent a lot of time yelling at Netanyahu on the administrations behalf over Israel’s West Bank settlement policy. Now, she is leaving no daylight at all between the Israelis and herself. “I think Israel did what it had to do to respond to the rockets,” she told me. “Israel has a right to defend itself. The steps Hamas has taken to embed rockets and command-and-control facilities and tunnel entrances in civilian areas, this makes a response by Israel difficult.” I asked her if she believed that Israel had done enough to prevent the deaths of children and other innocent people. “[J]ust as we try to do in the United States and be as careful as possible in going after targets to avoid civilians,” mistakes are made, she said. “We’ve made them. I don’t know a nation, no matter what its values are—and I think that democratic nations have demonstrably better values in a conflict position—that hasn’t made errors, but ultimately the responsibility rests with Hamas.”
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:57:58 +0000
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