Israel/Palestine

ericson00

(2,707 posts) Fri Oct 21, 2016, 01:04 PM Oct 2016

Clinton more reliable for Israel than Trump– and Obama, Lieberman says

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Clinton-more-reliable-for-Israel-than-Trump-and-Obama-Lieberman-says-470591

Hillary Clinton dispatched to Florida one of her most effective surrogates to Jewish voters on Thursday, hoping to shore up support within a community that has repeatedly proven crucial to Democratic victories there.

A political independent who leans heavily to the left, socially liberal and muscular on foreign policy, former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman tracks closely with the Democratic presidential nominee on a host of issues– and with many Jewish Floridians still on the fence just seventeen days before the general election.

Addressing a temple in Boca Raton, a shul in Miami and a group of rabbi and community leaders, Lieberman emphasized that Clinton is precisely the type of candidate the Jewish community has been waiting for.

Good. This is a nice way to get votes, but also to smack the anti-Israel element of the left in the face. May she continue doing so when she gets to office.

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Leaked emails show Hillary Clinton eager to patch things up with Netanyahu Mosby Oct 2016 #1

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1. Leaked emails show Hillary Clinton eager to patch things up with Netanyahu

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Fri Oct 21, 2016, 02:31 PM

Oct 2016

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillary Clinton’s plan to meet the Israeli prime minister in her first month as president is listed high in an internal campaign memo outlining the priorities of her first 100 days — a sign of how important it is to repair U.S.-Israel tensions.

The campaign’s determination to distance itself from President Barack Obama’s difficult relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu is seeded throughout emails stolen from her campaign chairman John Podesta’s private account and dumped in recent weeks by WikiLeaks. (Podesta is one of the officials CC’d on the first 100 days memo.)

The leaked emails offer a glimpse of the sausage-making of a presidential candidate’s policies when it comes to Israel, the Iran deal and the boycott Israel movement — sometimes spicy, sometimes bland and sometimes hard to swallow.

http://www.jta.org/2016/10/20/news-opinion/politics/leaked-emails-show-hillary-clinton-eager-to-patch-things-up-with-netanyahu

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