Bill Clinton: Mideast peace would undercut terror
By ASSOCIATED PRESS, JPost
A treaty “will take about half the impetus in the whole world for terror away,” the former US president says in Egypt.
Former US president Bill Clinton said Tuesday that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would take away much of the motivation for terrorism around the world.
He described the long-running conflict as the key problem in the region and said resolving it would have a knock on effect that could result in Syria ending its support for the Lebanese militant group Hizbullah and Iran turning back its controversial nuclear program.
“It will take about half the impetus in the whole world — not just the region, the whole world — for terror away,” he told an audience of Egyptian businessmen from the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. “It would have more impact by far than anything else that could be done.”
The founding of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians more than six decade ago has long been a rallying cry among Arabs and Muslims in the region and more recently is a regular recruiting tool for organizations like al-Qaida.
Clinton presided over the breakthrough Oslo Accords in 1993 that led to direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians over the principle of land for peace as well as a last ditch effort to negotiate a final agreement in 2000 before violence derailed negotiations.
He said both sides knew the outlines of any final agreement and said it was similar to the one he hammered out with Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak in 2000.
“They’re not even pretending now that they are not basically going to go back and take the modernized version I authored in 2000 that Israel accepted,” he said, expressing frustration with the current impasse in the talks over settlement construction.
“They blew 10 years and complicated the problem demographically by not doing this in 2000. It must be done,” he said.
Clinton focused his talk largely on living in a more sustainable fashion to confront global issues of income disparity and climate change and urged an audience that included Cabinet ministers and diplomats to to form partnerships to confront societal challenges.
He also answered questions about US domestic issues such as the perceived rise of Islamophobia.
Weighing in on the controversy surrounding an Islamic Center being built in New York two blocks from the Sept. 11 attacks, Clinton suggested dedicating the proposed building to the 60 Muslim victims of the attacks.
“I think the decision to dedicate this center to the memory of those who lost their lives on that day would send a set of messages that would if not make this crisis go away, would dramatically reduce it,” he said.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Bill Clinton: Jews to Blame for islamic Terrorism
The delusional and clueless Bill Clinton still does not understand the nature of islamic terror. He still does not understand that islamic doctrine commands muslims to wage war against infidels until they are subdued or convert to islam. This is not a territorial dispute going on between Israel and the arabs. Unfortunately he is not alone amongst western politicians in their inability to grasp this reality. Bill Clinton is the fool who treated islamic terrorism as crimes rather than acts of war. He never really responded to the first WTC bombing in ’93, the Khobar towers, African embassy bombings and the USS Cole under his watch. Which makes him largely responsible for 9/11. Yet he has learned nothing and still remains clueless about why muslims are waging jihad. Here is more of the disgusting, pandering speech Clinton made in Egypt. He also touched on the subject of “islamophobia”. Apparently the non-existent threat of “islamophobia” in America is a more serious issue to him than the global islamic jihad. How about muslim Judeophobia or Christianophobia. According to Bill Clinton, even as muslims are waging a global war against non-muslims, mass murdering Jews, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists, it is the muslims who are being victimized by phantom “islamophobia”. This man is becoming another Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton is thoroughly corrupt. But this is what happens when one accepts saudi money. It is safer for that scoundrel Clinton and other like-minded miscreants to scapegoat the Jews than to dare tell the truth about islam and blame muslims for islamic terrorism.
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President Clinton is right about one thing: The Arab-Israeli problem exposes many, if not all of the major issues that are at the heart of the violence and terrorism.
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