Hillary and Trump give virtually identical speeches at AIPAC, get standing ovations.

Great minds think alike?

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Hillary and Trump give virtually identical speeches at AIPAC, get standing ovations.
By subir
Tuesday Mar 22, 2016 ·

The two candidates leading their respective parties primaries spoke at the AIPAC. Both got a number of standing ovations. Clinton and Trump got loud applause for making a similar observations on Iran which played to the audience:

TRUMP: Do you want to hear something really shocking? As many of the great people in this room know, painted on those missiles in both Hebrew and Farsi were the words “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth.” You can forget that.

CLINTON: Those missiles were stamped with words declaring, and I quote, “Israel should be wiped from the pages of history.” We know they could reach Israel or hit the tens of thousands of American troops stationed in the Middle East. This is a serious danger and it demands a serious response.

Reading the speeches side by side, I am struck by the similarities. Some of the loudest applause was reserved for comments demonizing Palestinians. Here’s Hillary:

CLINTON: This is especially true at a time when Israel faces brutal terrorist stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks at home. Parents worry about letting their children walk down the street. Families live in fear. Just a few weeks ago, a young American veteran and West Point graduate named Taylor Force was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist near the Jaffa Port. These attacks must end immediately…

(APPLAUSE)

And Palestinian leaders need to stop inciting violence, stop celebrating terrorists as martyrs and stop paying rewards to their families.
You should listen to her deliver these lines and note the tone she uses when discussing Palestinians. Here’s Trump saying much the same thing:

TRUMP: And further, it would reward Palestinian terrorism because every day they’re stabbing Israelis and even Americans. Just last week, American Taylor Allen Force, a West Point grad, phenomenal young person who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was murdered in the street by a knife-wielding Palestinian. You don’t reward behavior like that. You cannot do it...Meanwhile, every single day you have rampant incitement and children being taught to hate Israel and to hate the Jews. It has to stop.

For both Hillary and Trump, Palestinians are either terrorists, intransigent politicians, or inciters and terrorist sympathizers. When Clinton did bring up the never-ending two-state peace “process”, she was careful to quickly come back to caricaturing Palestinians as “terrorists” and “inciters”.

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