She values democracy, huh?

hillary-contempt

Edit - Source - 2006 interview with Eli Chomsky for the Jewish Press.

The Jewish Press: Israel recently concluded its war against Hizbullah in what many consider to be a stalemated position. How do you see things right now?

Sen. Clinton:

First, I don’t think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. If we were going to push for an election, we should have made sure we did something to determine who was going to win instead of signing off on an electoral system that advantaged Hamas.

That, to me, was a first step that led Hizbullah to take the actions that it took [killing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers and firing missiles into Israeli population centers]. What has concerned me is that I don’t think our or Israel’s intelligence was very good at uncovering what Hizbullah had developed in the last six years.

Frankly, the American intelligence didn’t know how dug in Hizbullah was, how many rockets they had, where they were going to be launched from and what the range was.

I think, based on what I know, that a lot of damage was inflicted on Hizbullah’s capacity. But that capacity is not destroyed and has not disappeared. Thus, Hizbullah, the Syrians and the Iranians have been emboldened.

This was a problem of situational awareness and about what we were up against. This is a longer-term issue for us and for Israel as we try to figure out how we’re going to get a better grasp of what we’re up against.

Edit 2 - switched to non CHUD channel vid. I searched on YT cause zi didnxt want to reddit vid if I didn’t have to and rushed it at work.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    But we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win

    Okay Hillary Clinton might just be one of the most ignorant or entitled State Department ghouls of all time. The results of the elections were very predictable, almost as if they were engineered by the Western powers. As Samir Amin wrote in 2007:

    Today more than ever, in conjunction with the implementation of the U.S. “Greater Middle East project,” the rights of the Palestinian people have been abolished. All the same, the PLO accepted the Oslo and Madrid plans and the roadmap drafted by Washington. It is Israel that has openly gone back on its agreement, and implemented an even more ambitious expansion plan. The PLO has been undermined as a result: public opinion can justly reproach it with having naively believed in the sincerity of its adversaries. The support provided by the occupation authorities to its Islamist adversary (Hamas), in the beginning, at least, and the spread of corrupt practices in the Palestinian administration (on which the fund donors—the World Bank, Europe, and the NGOs—are silent, if they are not party to it) had to lead to the Hamas electoral victory (it was predictable). This then became an additional pretext immediately put forward to justify unconditional alignment with Israeli policies no matter what they may be.

    So yes, you did “do something to determine who was going to win”. Just because Hillary Clinton did not like the results of this in 2017, it does not mean that the election was not engineered. So Clinton is complaining about the results of their own electoral engineering. The entitlement on display is staggering.