Clinton Backs Israel, Vows to Counter Hizbullah
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said that she would forcefully counter anti-Semitism and thwart Iran's proxies like Hizbullah if she was elected U.S. president.
“We cannot forget that Tehran’s fingerprints are on nearly every conflict across the Middle East, from Syria to Lebanon to Yemen,” the Democratic frontrunner told nearly 18,000 attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference on Monday.
“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies are attempting to establish a position on the Golan from which to threaten Israel, and they continue to fund Palestinian terrorists,” she said.
“In Lebanon, Hizbullah is amassing an arsenal of increasingly sophisticated rockets and artillery that well may be able to hit every city in Israel,” she told the cheering crowd.
Clinton said Washington “must work closely with Israel and other partners to cut off the flow of money and arms from Iran to Hizbullah.”
She urged European states and the international community to designate Hizbullah a terrorist organization similar to what the Arab League has done.
Earlier this month, the Arab League formally branded Hizbullah a terrorist organization, ramping up the pressure on the Shiite group, which is fighting on the side of President Bashar Assad in Syria.
In her speech, Clinton positioned herself as an unwavering friend to Israel.
"We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable," she said about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
"Israel's security is non-negotiable," she added.
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22 March 2016, 11:50
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a Lebanese party is emerging as key element either to lose or to win an election in the most powerful country in the world... powerful for the time being, China soon will replace it.
22 March 2016, 14:56
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If I was a USA citizen I would vote for the jewish Bernie Sanders! Then if not him, I would vote Trump! Even though he is a little racist, he is his own person that isn't controlled or owned by lobby groups, including the zionist lobby... he has declared that he would be "neutral" between Israel and Palestinians. He obviously said silly things like not allowing muslims into america but nothing worse then what is the official policy of saudi arabia against christians! But i must declare i would support Hilary Clinton over the snake Ted Cruz! This guy is a dog that would sell out his own mother... anyone but Ted Cruz!
My guess is Hilary Clinton the next President with all her baggage.
22 March 2016, 15:43
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Cruz or Trump, one is as bad as the other. Cruz personally tried to sabotaged the IDC conference in Washington in 2014 in an effort to curry favor with the Israel lobby.
trump appeals to the most base insincts of the least educated Americans with his a it-Moslem talk. These uneducated people here do no know the difference between a Lebanese or Palestinian, a Christian or a Moslem, much less a Sunni from a Shiite. If you look middle eastern, then you are the "enemy". I have seen this ignorance played out against 3rd generation Lebanese Christians who are treated by these uneducated, urged on by Trump as if they were Wahabi terrorists. And he has Walid Faris as his advisor. The Lebanesewho went over to the Israeli side, as Hobeika went to the Syrians side.
