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Excerpted from a 48 minute interview. Full video at the link. [IsraelTimes] If ‘you walk away from once in a lifetime peace opportunities, you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors aren’t all still open,’ says former US president
Former US president Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is ...
on Wednesday said young people in America today "can’t believe" that late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from a Paleostinian state during peace negotiations with Israel under his mediation as president.
Clinton added, in reference to the failed Camp David talks of 2000, that having turned down a "once in a lifetime" peace opportunity, "you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there."
"I think what’s happened there in the last twenty-five years is one of the great tragedies of the twenty-first century," Clinton told New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, in an interview for the newspaper’s DealBook Summit, promoting his new book, "Citizen: My Life After The White House."
The Times posted a video of the interview to its New York Times Events+ YouTube channel; the video was removed on Thursday, but re-uploaded shortly thereafter.
"All [young people in America] know that a lot more Paleostinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell them what Arafat walked away from, and they, like, can’t believe it," said the former commander-in-chief.
Arafat "walked away from a Paleostinian state, with a capital in East Jerusalem, 96% of the West Bank, 4% of Israel to make up for the 4% [of the West Bank to be annexed for Israeli settlements]," Clinton elaborated, repeating an account of the Oslo peace negotiations, to which the ex-president has returned repeatedly in recent interviews and remarks.
The talks, which aimed to resolve Israel’s conflict with the Paleostinians through a negotiated two-state solution, fell apart just six weeks before Clinton’s second term ended.
"I go through all the stuff that was in the deal, and they, like — it’s not on their radar screen, they can’t even imagine that happened," Clinton went on, describing his conversations with young Americans upset over the corpse count in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
in the latest war.
The former US president also noted the sacrifice made by Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a Jewish krazed killer in Israel over his support for the grinding of the peace processor.
"I tell them, you know, the first and most famous victim of an attempt to get the Paleostinians a state was prime minister Rabin, whom I think I loved as much as I ever loved another man," Clinton said, repeating a phrase he has often used to describe his relationship with the late Israeli leader.
"You walk away from these once in a lifetime peace opportunities, and you can’t complain twenty-five years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there. You can’t do it," Clinton said.
In addition to his remarks about the grinding of the peace processor, Clinton also commented on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival, noting that he had remained in office "farther than I thought he would."
Clinton said that the Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror group’s October 7, 2023 attack — in which some 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and 251 people taken hostage, starting the ongoing war — worked to Netanyahu’s political benefit, focusing attention away from domestic controversies.
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