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| 'Clinton's worry for Israeli democracy exaggerated' |
| 2011-12-04 |
| Several government ministers on Sunday rejected comments made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which she expressed concern for Israel's democracy. Clinton was cited by the Israeli media as expressing Saturday concern over certain anti-democratic legislation and trends signifying the deterioration of the status of women in Israel. Several government ministers on Sunday rejected comments made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in which she expressed concern for Israel's democracy. Clinton was cited by the Israeli media as expressing Saturday concern over certain anti-democratic legislation and trends signifying the deterioration of the status of women in Israel. Speaking at the Saban Forum in Washington, Clinton specifically mentioned bills limiting funding for NGOs, and the exclusion of women in the public sphere, as exemplified by gender separation on buses serving the haredi community and controversy over women singing in public. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called Clinton's claims "completely exaggerated." He claimed that Israel is a healthy democracy. "I don't know many better democracies in the world." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Any concerns that the Arab Spring, is actually an Arab Spring Forward to Islamism? No? didn't think so. |
| Posted by: Jack Salami 2011-12-04 17:58 |
| #2 Anyone heard Clinton being worried about the death of American democracy under Zero's justice dept., DHS, etc.? No, me neither. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-12-04 13:14 |
| #1 The administration has been blatantly supporting the Israeli opposition, to the point of sending agitators there to create mass rallies, that were used as the model for the OWS agitators. Sept 5, 2011 - "On Saturday night, more than 400,000 activists poured into Israel‘s streets to rail against the country’s high cost of living, its housing crisis and what some call a distorted distribution of wealth. But new reports claim that these protests — which appear organic in nature — may actually be strategically orchestrated by Stanley Greenberg, a prominent Democratic strategist here in America." The demands of the protesters are focused on raising taxes, “social justice, equality and democracy, and the establishment of a Palestinian state.” "Greenberg has a history of working in Israeli politics; at the behest of the US Democratic party he helped left-wing Ehud Barak win to become Prime Minister back in 1999." The Greenberg, (James) Carville, and (Bob) Shrum company, has also been acting as election consultants for other, exclusively radical left wing candidates and parties elsewhere in the world, such as the Bolivian leftist incumbent president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (“Goni”). (It didn't work.) At the Israeli demos, by the way, out of 27 speakers, 21 are known leftist activists affiliated with Hadash, the communist party, with Meretz, with the New Israel Fund, with the Nationalist Left proto-party, and with the anarchists. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-04 09:10 |