Clinton will be forced to endorse or reject a nuclear deal during the course of her campaign.
JPOST
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton launches her second presidential campaign as a former statesman during a challenging time for global security – for the Middle East in particular, and for a US foreign policy establishment shaken up by recent actions taken by the Obama administration.
As secretary of state – her most recent résumé line and the only new credential she brings since her last run for the Democratic nomination in 2008 – Clinton notes high among her achievements her brokerage of a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza in 2012, as well as the construction of an international sanctions regime against Iran over its nuclear work.
Since her departure from the administration, those stories have developed dramatically: Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority has collapsed, its alliance with US President Barack Obama has strained, and a historic deal is in the offing between world powers and Iran, one that Israel strongly opposes.
During Clinton’s pause from public life, Obama and his team accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of politicizing the US-Israel relationship, of interfering in a domestic political debate on Iran, and of obstructing the sole pathway to peace with the Palestinians through his continued endorsement of settlements.
Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill hope to avoid having to choose sides between their president and the prime minister.
Clinton will not have that luxury; she will be forced to endorse or reject a nuclear deal during the course of her campaign. That “hard choice,” as she calls things of this nature (it is also the title of her memoir), will have a direct effect on the outcome of the negotiations.
“Their goal is a diplomatic solution that would close off Iran’s pathways to a nuclear bomb and give us unprecedented access and insight into Iran’s nuclear program,” Clinton said last month of the US president’s efforts in the Iran negotiations, prior to the announcement of a framework agreement reached at the beginning of this month in Lausanne.
“Reasonable people can disagree about what exactly it will take to accomplish this objective,” she continued, “and we all must judge any final agreement on its merits.”
Should Clinton win her party’s nomination, she will be the spokeswoman for the future of the Democratic Party, largely eclipsing the president. And with Republican opposition to a nuclear deal all but guaranteed (Libertarian Rand Paul supports the diplomatic effort more than any other GOP contender), US participation in an agreement will rely on her political willingness to support it.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are aware of this. Should Clinton endorse legislation that would grant Congress oversight powers on an Iran deal, Democratic lawmakers will have sufficient political cover to vote for the bill – and against Obama – thus providing support for the bill beyond the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto.
Such a move could be interpreted as a betrayal inside the Obama White House, where the president’s team takes credit for giving Clinton her seat at the table as secretary of state. Maintaining support within the administration while distancing herself from its unpopular policies will be a difficult task for her in the months ahead.
But given the impact an Iran deal will have on a host of foreign policy files, she will not be able to avoid discussing Iran at length in the months to come. And her opponents-in-waiting, including former Florida governor Jeb Bush, are already casting her positions as part of the “Obama-Clinton foreign policy.”
Nor will Israel be a topic of conversation that Clinton will easily be able to defer.
Last month, she spoke by phone with Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, as rhetoric from the White House against Netanyahu intensified.
“Secretary Clinton thinks we need to all work together to return the special US-Israel relationship to constructive footing, to get back to basic shared concerns and interests, including a two-state solution pursued through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians,” Hoenlein said in a statement after the call.
In her recently updated memoir, Clinton put distance between herself and the president on his public rebukes of Israel’s settlement activity.
That distance might now be wider, as the rebukes have sharpened in recent weeks. Israel will be watching Clinton closely to see what the future might hold for the US-Israel relationship. So, too, will the American Jewish establishment, a small but influential constituency in US politics.
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I will make sure every US citizen fights to the death for Israel we will certainly nuke Iran -invade Syria and attack Russia that means millions of US citizens will die for Israel but my master Nutteryahu will give you a grave to bury your dead in ,the same place we bury our cattle (goyim ) but I am sure you would like it as it is on Israeli soil . If you cant make it due to your skin falling off your body due to radiation well chin up you have defended Israel bravely .WE do not need billions of slaves to look after us so this was a good lesson in us “letting you go ” . WE want Iran nuked first before you attack Russia as Putin probably will still be calling us his friends even as the nukes land in Moscow. I have to go now and prepare my nuke shelter so I will survive and not you .
Elections – Candidate One: “I love Jew more than you!” Candidate Two: “There’s no way you could love Jew more than me! I’ll kill every last creature on Earth, and that include my daughter, for Jew! Life has no meaning without Jew!” Candidate Three – Hillary: “My only daughter married a Jew, and we bow at the alter of all things Jew! But Candidate One & Two, you make Compelling Arguments! Play your cards right. And you might get to be members of my cabinet and unleash your love and wrath for all things Jew!”…
Joke’s on you America …. How this Marxist scank female-dog is qualified to do anything but clean Bill’s toilets is beyond me. Only her jewish handlers know for sure. She’s a zionist whore, a lover of the antichrist Israe-LIE. She serves the jew just like Obongo whose mother was jewish. Any pretended riffs between the Israe-LIE and the jewish control of this nation is hogwash. It’s only purpose is to tighten the chains around your neck.
Bitch Israeli agent! The next president, who the Jews choose candidates for, will be a disaster. If we’re lucky enough to survive the Obama Administration, the next one will be worse, much worse. I can’t see how we’ll survive the next Jew sock puppet president.
duncan lucas/YOU ARE F$#@ UP PARRICIDE ZIONIST!!!TO BED HOLOCAUSTS NEVER HAPPEN!!
Eco I dont know who you are but obviously you are limited in an intelligent response . Where did I comment on holocaust on the above previous post ? Its glaringly obvious you are trying to do what many paid posters did they could not beat me in down to earth logic and reason so they came out with comments that showed they never got past primary school playground talk . My record stands supreme over many years of com-batting Judaism so I take it you are either =a Jerusalem post “soldier of the internet ” the lowest paid FBI recruit- or maybe a downmarket NSA/GCHQ employee you cannot beat me in real life so you revert to a child like manner of somebody who as a child stamped their foot on the ground to get their way , Right NON-eco prove me wrong I challenge you ! When a jew cant beat an intelligent conversation they LIE just like you . Come on change your name to somebody else as paid posters do and reply to me.
It wouldn’t be the White House. It would be the Brothel House. D.C. has a stench in its pipes all ready and no one cares to fix the plumbing.
OK, we all get it: Hilda the Beast is Satan’s whore.
Nothing else explains how this wicked psychopath, pathological liar and criminal is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President in America, the Great Satan.
Pretty well proves that the “jews” (meaning Khazar impostors posing as Jews) are the synagogue of Satan of Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 and thus the Antichrist of these final days of the end times in which we are now living. It’s all so obvious. But God has sent strong delusion upon the vast majority of humanity alive on the planet today so they believe a lie and are damned for rejecting the truth and delighting in unrighteousness as 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 clearly explains.
So what is the take-away from all of this? That the Bible is proving itself once again to be 100% true and trustworthy and everything which contradicts anything it says HAS to be a lie. The good book tells the elect that in late 2016, Yahushua (Jesus) returns in the clouds to gather the elect and then rain down hell-fire on the wicked who remain. Clearly Hilda will be first in line. But what about you? Will you be there too? Don’t you think THAT is the more important issue?
I do agree with duncan lucas’s viewpoint. There is a prophetic prediction, whether one believes it or not, 99 % of humanity out of the 100 will be wiped out or (pop-corned) as they for domination the world and acquire all good things and luxury this world offers. Let us not forget that, almost all nuclear arsenals are directly pointed to big cities in the “West” and “East”. This means one thing, an instant death for many. Even through most undeveloped countries such as in Africa, Asia and Latin America, their cities are not directly targeted by these thermonuclear weapons, they will have the same fate as of New York, London, Moscow, Hong Kong and others.
If anyone asks: “why all these deaths and destructions ought to happen?” the answer is simple: it should happen to fulfill “THE GREATER IS-REAL PROJECT DRERAM” for a nation, that over 80% of it habitants do not even believe in existence of a “god” who promise them the “THE GREATER IS-REAL”.
@ Duncan Lucas. My impression of eco is that the person behind the name is simply an illiterate who does not get the concept of satire and actually believes you are serious. These folks have attacked me more than once for my satire and that is how I treat them. Kinda the same as I do the more obvious trolls. Otherwise it is simply too ridiculous to respond ~ save yourself for things that matter.
If our real owners have decided that another Bush would suit them just fine, they may well pick La Clinton –the “polarizer” as the challenger, making sure enough bad press is published during the campaign (WhiteWater/BlueDress/Benghazi/etc) to explain why Bush was the legitimate winner of the election (as legitimate as his brother was). Even without rigging she would probably lose the meaningless exercise some Americans still believe in, because she is easy to despise.
PS I didn’t mean to say she is easier to despise than Bush on objective grounds — they win the despicability race whisker to whisker, only that there is something more viscerally reprehensible about her
@ Duncan
noor is correct.
Sarcasm is a gift of wit.
It is sometimes a foreign accent for even those that share our own tongue.
Eco is okay.
His heart is right.
I, speaking for myself, I thought your sarcasm was delicious Duncan.
But you both must understand this about me,
My mother sometimes told me that she liked my sister more than me. (She was smiling when she said it most of the time)
Not everyone gets that.
Eco is okay Duncan.
And Eco, sarcasm is NOT a bad thing.
Its kinda like making light or fun of a heavy load we all bare.
So, if it will not wreck your Freudian Id complex Eco, I am about to encourage more of Duncan’s sarcasm. Because I myself rather enjoy it.
I think you could also.
I will make sure every US citizen fights to the death for Israel we will certainly nuke Iran -invade Syria and attack Russia that means millions of US citizens will die for Israel but my master Nutteryahu will give you a grave to bury your dead in ,the same place we bury our cattle (goyim ) but I am sure you would like it as it is on Israeli soil . If you cant make it due to your skin falling off your body due to radiation well chin up you have defended Israel bravely .WE do not need billions of slaves to look after us so this was a good lesson in us “letting you go ” . WE want Iran nuked first before you attack Russia as Putin probably will still be calling us his friends even as the nukes land in Moscow. I have to go now and prepare my nuke shelter so I will survive and not you .
Elections – Candidate One: “I love Jew more than you!” Candidate Two: “There’s no way you could love Jew more than me! I’ll kill every last creature on Earth, and that include my daughter, for Jew! Life has no meaning without Jew!” Candidate Three – Hillary: “My only daughter married a Jew, and we bow at the alter of all things Jew! But Candidate One & Two, you make Compelling Arguments! Play your cards right. And you might get to be members of my cabinet and unleash your love and wrath for all things Jew!”…
Joke’s on you America …. How this Marxist scank female-dog is qualified to do anything but clean Bill’s toilets is beyond me. Only her jewish handlers know for sure. She’s a zionist whore, a lover of the antichrist Israe-LIE. She serves the jew just like Obongo whose mother was jewish. Any pretended riffs between the Israe-LIE and the jewish control of this nation is hogwash. It’s only purpose is to tighten the chains around your neck.
Bitch Israeli agent! The next president, who the Jews choose candidates for, will be a disaster. If we’re lucky enough to survive the Obama Administration, the next one will be worse, much worse. I can’t see how we’ll survive the next Jew sock puppet president.
duncan lucas/YOU ARE F$#@ UP PARRICIDE ZIONIST!!!TO BED HOLOCAUSTS NEVER HAPPEN!!
Eco I dont know who you are but obviously you are limited in an intelligent response . Where did I comment on holocaust on the above previous post ? Its glaringly obvious you are trying to do what many paid posters did they could not beat me in down to earth logic and reason so they came out with comments that showed they never got past primary school playground talk . My record stands supreme over many years of com-batting Judaism so I take it you are either =a Jerusalem post “soldier of the internet ” the lowest paid FBI recruit- or maybe a downmarket NSA/GCHQ employee you cannot beat me in real life so you revert to a child like manner of somebody who as a child stamped their foot on the ground to get their way , Right NON-eco prove me wrong I challenge you ! When a jew cant beat an intelligent conversation they LIE just like you . Come on change your name to somebody else as paid posters do and reply to me.
It wouldn’t be the White House. It would be the Brothel House. D.C. has a stench in its pipes all ready and no one cares to fix the plumbing.
OK, we all get it: Hilda the Beast is Satan’s whore.
Nothing else explains how this wicked psychopath, pathological liar and criminal is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for President in America, the Great Satan.
Pretty well proves that the “jews” (meaning Khazar impostors posing as Jews) are the synagogue of Satan of Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 and thus the Antichrist of these final days of the end times in which we are now living. It’s all so obvious. But God has sent strong delusion upon the vast majority of humanity alive on the planet today so they believe a lie and are damned for rejecting the truth and delighting in unrighteousness as 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 clearly explains.
So what is the take-away from all of this? That the Bible is proving itself once again to be 100% true and trustworthy and everything which contradicts anything it says HAS to be a lie. The good book tells the elect that in late 2016, Yahushua (Jesus) returns in the clouds to gather the elect and then rain down hell-fire on the wicked who remain. Clearly Hilda will be first in line. But what about you? Will you be there too? Don’t you think THAT is the more important issue?
I do agree with duncan lucas’s viewpoint. There is a prophetic prediction, whether one believes it or not, 99 % of humanity out of the 100 will be wiped out or (pop-corned) as they for domination the world and acquire all good things and luxury this world offers. Let us not forget that, almost all nuclear arsenals are directly pointed to big cities in the “West” and “East”. This means one thing, an instant death for many. Even through most undeveloped countries such as in Africa, Asia and Latin America, their cities are not directly targeted by these thermonuclear weapons, they will have the same fate as of New York, London, Moscow, Hong Kong and others.
If anyone asks: “why all these deaths and destructions ought to happen?” the answer is simple: it should happen to fulfill “THE GREATER IS-REAL PROJECT DRERAM” for a nation, that over 80% of it habitants do not even believe in existence of a “god” who promise them the “THE GREATER IS-REAL”.
@ Duncan Lucas. My impression of eco is that the person behind the name is simply an illiterate who does not get the concept of satire and actually believes you are serious. These folks have attacked me more than once for my satire and that is how I treat them. Kinda the same as I do the more obvious trolls. Otherwise it is simply too ridiculous to respond ~ save yourself for things that matter.
If our real owners have decided that another Bush would suit them just fine, they may well pick La Clinton –the “polarizer” as the challenger, making sure enough bad press is published during the campaign (WhiteWater/BlueDress/Benghazi/etc) to explain why Bush was the legitimate winner of the election (as legitimate as his brother was). Even without rigging she would probably lose the meaningless exercise some Americans still believe in, because she is easy to despise.
PS I didn’t mean to say she is easier to despise than Bush on objective grounds — they win the despicability race whisker to whisker, only that there is something more viscerally reprehensible about her
@ Duncan
noor is correct.
Sarcasm is a gift of wit.
It is sometimes a foreign accent for even those that share our own tongue.
Eco is okay.
His heart is right.
I, speaking for myself, I thought your sarcasm was delicious Duncan.
But you both must understand this about me,
My mother sometimes told me that she liked my sister more than me. (She was smiling when she said it most of the time)
Not everyone gets that.
Eco is okay Duncan.
And Eco, sarcasm is NOT a bad thing.
Its kinda like making light or fun of a heavy load we all bare.
So, if it will not wreck your Freudian Id complex Eco, I am about to encourage more of Duncan’s sarcasm. Because I myself rather enjoy it.
I think you could also.