JINSA CEO Quoted in Washington Post on Clinton Iran Statements
Hillary Clinton whiffs on Iran, embraces Obama’s policy
By Jennifer Rubin
Hillary Clinton spinners who insist that there is a difference between her and President Obama on Israel, journalists looking for a juicy story about more distancing between Obama and Clinton and self-deluded pro-Israel Democrats who think she has real spine on Iran must be disappointed over her performance at the Saban Forum on Friday night.
Hillary Clinton whiffs on Iran, embraces Obama’s policy
By Jennifer Rubin
Hillary Clinton spinners who insist that there is a difference between her and President Obama on Israel, journalists looking for a juicy story about more distancing between Obama and Clinton and self-deluded pro-Israel Democrats who think she has real spine on Iran must be disappointed over her performance at the Saban Forum on Friday night.
In a conversation with Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban, who is also a major Clinton backer, she essentially backed the president wherever possible and avoided saying anything controversial about Israel or Iran. Shocking, it was not, to conservatives. But it does suggest Saban and other Democratic donors are a cheap date when it comes to Israel. They expect very little from their inevitable nominee and that is exactly what she gives them.
According to news reports, she backed the extension of the P5+1 talks and insulted critics of the administration, insisting, “Forget about the press coverage and the back and forth. Nobody can argue with the commitment of this administration to Israel’s security.” Really — no one legitimately can observe that the administration’s scurrilous comments about the prime minister (and bragging it is now too late for Israel to strike) damages Israel; that accusing sanctions proponents of being “war mongers” undercuts the military option and may inhibit Israel if it needs to act in self-defense; that making concession after concession to Iran is cosigning Israel to live with a nuclear-capable genocidal state; that seeking detente with the country that pines for Israel’s destruction is injurious to Israel’s survival; that backing Hamas patron Qatar’s truce in the Gaza war and condemning Israel’s conduct of the war make it harder for the Jewish state to defend itself; that insisting negotiations with the Palestinians beginning from the unsustainable 1967 borders is a recipe for Israel’s insecurity; and that publicly blaming Israel for the collapse in peace talks feeds international efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state? Heck, Democrats have done all that.