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Israel/Palestine

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6. she's a pragmatist.

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Thu May 26, 2016, 01:23 PM

May 2016

she recognizes that (1) there's no domestic political upside to caring about the Palestinians in US elections and (2) there's nothing any US president can do to help resolve the conflict in Israel/Palestine--our best contribution would be to butt out.

So, she'll rubber stamp whatever Israel does, while engaging in a policy of benign neglect for that dispute, where American leadership is neither possible nor wanted.

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