Hillary Clinton reprises “peace process” fraud

[IndianaGreen]

Hillary Clinton reprises “peace process” fraud

3 March 2009

In her first trip to the Middle East as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton insisted that the new US administration is determined to press for a "two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Decades of US and Israeli policies, however, have made it abundantly clear that the two-state solution will neither resolve the democratic and social aspirations of the Palestinian people nor secure an end to the ceaseless militarism of the Israeli state, which in the end poses a mortal threat to Jewish working people in Israel itself.

Clinton made her pitch for the revival of the decades-old and deeply discredited "peace process" in the context of an international donors' conference called in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to raise money for the rebuilding of the devastated Gaza Strip.

At the end of the 23-day Israeli onslaught against Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians had been killed, many thousands more wounded and half a million driven from their homes. It remains a humanitarian catastrophe, with tens of thousands still homeless, sleeping in tents in the cold, inadequate food supplies and the threat of disease posed by the destruction of water and sewage infrastructure. Meanwhile, Israel continues to exercise a tight blockade at Gaza crossings, preventing access to essential supplies.

In her public statements, Clinton managed, incredibly, to make no mention of this destruction wrought by the Israeli military, referring only once to an abstract "crisis in Gaza." At the same time, however, she repeatedly condemned rocket attacks from Gaza, demanding that they stop. Needless to say, the American secretary of state made no such demand upon Israel to halt its continuing military actions against Gaza.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/pers-m03.shtml

[sandnsea]

1. She attended the Gaza Reconstruction Conference

Kind of hard to attend a conference that is in direct result of the Israeli military without acknowledging that it happened. Her very presence acknowledges the destruction.


http://www.obama-mamas.com/blog/?p=188


http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/03/119929.htm

[Jim Sagle]

2. Ahistorical and one-sided Trotskyite hogwash.

[Demeter]

3. It Keeps Her Out of Trouble andThe Senate and the Country

even if there isn't a chance in hell of her actually accomplishing anything. Wrong person and wrong time and wrong approach.....