Israeli-Palestinian Negotations --- not an American concern and a huge waste of American tax dollars. let the religious settle their own wars without US weapons and financial support.
On Monday, March 10, 2014 8:15:34 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > *Of Course Hillary Clinton Had An Accomplishment As Sec. of > State*<http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cde1&id=3cda47808a&e=e1333e4251> > > Mar 08, 2014 03:39 pm | Jeff Dunetz > > *[image: > https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-40wFUwcTVZ0/Uxt_moyRcTI/AAAAAAAATpQ/r-KB9vgyBcI/s1600/06-06-12-001.jpg]*<http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cde1&id=e90a60a064&e=e1333e4251> > > > Some of my conservative friends contend that Hillary Clinton had > absolutely no accomplishments during her tenure as Secretary of State > (other than frequent flyer mileage). Indeed whenever there is a liberal > guest on the *Hugh Hewitt > program*<http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cde1&id=4d6ba60407&e=e1333e4251>the > hosts asks for a list of Clinton's State Department accomplishments. > Despite their love of everything Clinton, not one of them has ever come up > with an answer. > > They aren't trying hard enough. Purposely or by accident, they are > overlooking Ms Clinton's one major accomplishment as the nation's top > diplomat, Israeli/Palestinian peace talks. No she didn't encourage peace > talks, she destroyed the chance for peace talks during her tenure. > > Whatever one thinks about the talks and if they have a choice to succeed, > there is no possibility of peace if the sides aren't talking. There were > peace talks during Condoleezza Rice's Secretary of State tenure and there > are talks today, but the two sides never talked when Hillary was in office. > > The reason they stopped was because Hillary Clinton made settlements an > issue. > > While the Palestinian's have never accepted Israeli settlements, secession > of all settlement building has never been a precondition to talks. Israel > had long since agreed not to build new "settlements" in Judea and Samaria > (the West Bank) but would continue to add housing units to existing > communities. > > During the government of PM Ehud Barak, and since talks restarted last > year direct talks were happening despite the fact that Israel was building > new homes in existing communities. > > It was Hillary Clinton's naiveté that made the settlements an issue. > Clinton first demanded the freeze in 2009 and was quickly backed up by > Obama. What Clinton perceived as a minor concession (a settlement freeze > including no new housing units in existing communities) was for Israel a > grave sacrifice. From the average Israeli's point of view she was saying to > adults that new apartments, which would accommodate their married > children's families, their married kids could no longer live near their > parents. > > This was a major error by the Obama administration and it was compounded > by their inclusion of Jerusalem in the mix and their constant public > berating of the Jewish State. Furthermore the demand for a freeze of > natural community growth broke a US/Israel agreement made during the Bush > administration. > > Secretary of State Clinton said there was never an agreement between > Israel and the US about natural expansion of existing settlements. *Elliot > Abrams who negotiated the > agreement*<http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cde1&id=d473ca9e10&e=e1333e4251>for > the Bush administration explained that Clinton was lying. > > Immediately after Hillary made it an issue the Palestinians seized upon it > and made it their own. Seeing an opportunity to avoid talking, they used > the U.S. demand to make a settlement freeze a precondition to further > talks; even though there were negotiations and construction happening > simultaneously before Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. > > While the way he is conducting the latest set of talks is naive' in its > own way, one cannot argue with the fact that once John Kerry took over the > State Department negotiations began between the two sides without an > Israeli agreement to stop adding new apartments to existing settlements. > > That, my friends is Hillary Clinton's only accomplishment as Secretary of > State, she killed any chance for peace in the Middle East. > > Please email me at [email protected] <javascript:> to be put onto my > mailing list. 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