U.S. ‘will always be by Israel’s side,’ Clinton says

The United States’ relationship with Israel will be “solid for a long time to come,” former U.S. President Bill Clinton told supporters of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto on Sunday night.

“No matter what happens, we will always be there by Israel’s side,” the 42nd American president told some 1,800 people attending the sold-out Spirit of Hope Benefit at the Toronto Performing Arts Centre.

“We’re not about to allow Hamas or anyone else destroy Israel.”

In a 40-minute extemporaneous talk that was warmly received, Clinton touched on many topics, including the Middle East, the growing interdependence of the world, and the deadly riots that followed publication of Danish editorial cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8720

but too bad the money couldn't have been spent on bolstering the dams BEFORE Katrina.

activist named Rachel Corrie... those cost millions each. Paid for by the likes of you and me. Oh yeah, they usually just demolish Palestinian homes. The homes of tens of thousands were destroyed in just the last four years. Crops too. Olive trees uprooted.
http://www.icahdusa.org/temp/

:grr:

Alas, he's probably right. Considering how we've always been "there by Israel's side" even when they committed war crimes and built an apartheid wall.

AIPAC, they just will do *anything* for acceptance.
John Edwards gave a similar speel last night.

Will you not allow the GOP to destroy US?

and break the power of conservatives in Israeli politics. Jewish liberals are some of the strongest speakers and thinkers of the progressive movement. We need to empower them and marginalize Likud style governance whenever we can.

land or they won't exist anymore...

Conservatives don't protect Israel, they sell it out or sell it short, like conservatives do here. In many cases, they are the same conservatives.

Liberal government is the best hope Israel has of national survival, conservatives have nothing to offer Jews but war & misery, just as they have throughout history.

nt

illegally occupied. It is not theirs to give away.

recognizes Israel as a nation and its right to exist.

The West Bank and Gaza is not part of Israel. Israel has Jewish only settlements in the West Bank. It must leave the West Bank. It is not theirs.

It is unique among nations for not having a defined border.

too. These people never forget their own!

Oh wait...never mind! ;)

wants to be loved...
By elites all over and he sure is a clever politician.

That's why he will simultaneous advise the UAE on the port deal, support his wife's plan to scuttle the deal - all for a country that doesn't even acknowledge Israel's existence.

Meanwhile he kisses AIPAC's ass.

I'll hand it to him. He makes everyone feel like he "really does feel their pain".

...I wouldn't (willingly) pay .25 to support that racist, jewish-supremacist state.

is on the payroll...