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Not long ago, Hillary Clin­ton made peo­ple wince with the same amount of pain that a paper cut or deeply embed­ded splin­ter evoke. These days, her hus­band Bill is gain­ing a rep­u­ta­tion as the lat­est ver­bal train wreck to crash into the State of Israel. What was Bill think­ing? Why would he attack Israeli Jews that hap­pen to be of Russ­ian decent?

Guess what, Bill? My husband’s pater­nal grand­fa­ther came from Lithua­nia and spoke Russ­ian. I can already hear him curs­ing your name in six lan­guages: Eng­lish, Russ­ian, Chi­nese, Japan­ese, Hebrew and Yid­dish. That’s great hear­ing on my part since he passed away over a year ago. But unlike you, Leo risked his life many times over to build rela­tion­ships with Japan­ese lead­ers to save Jews in China from the Holo­caust. Leo was a real hero.

Unfor­tu­nately for you, most Amer­i­cans, Israelis and Jews around the world will never for­get your caus­tic words. Blam­ing Russ­ian Israelis as the bot­tle­neck in peace nego­ti­a­tions between the Pales­tini­ans is absurd. In fact, it’s not only weak it’s a lie. The facts speak for them­selves. What con­ces­sions have Pales­tini­ans lead­ers made? Why did the Pales­tini­ans wait 10 months — the entire con­struc­tion mora­to­rium — to agree to direct talks? When will the Qas­sam rock­ets stop? When will Hamas ter­ror­ists stop mur­der­ing inno­cent Israelis? What about the Lebanese Army who know­ingly mur­derded an Israeli IDF com­man­der and others?

Some­how, the inabil­ity of the Pales­tini­ans to make ANY con­ces­sions, their con­stant stalling, their delegimiza­tion cam­paign (boy­cott, divest and sanc­tion aka BDS cam­paign tar­get­ing Israeli economy) and their ongo­ing pre­med­i­tated acts of war were MIA in your speech. While you spring­boarded your com­ments off a pri­vate con­ver­sa­tion that you claimed you had with then-Israeli Cab­i­net Min­is­ter and for­mer Soviet dis­si­dent Natan Sha­ran­sky, it doesn’t look like Sha­ran­sky backed you up. Sha­ran­sky released a state­ment to Israeli news­pa­per, Haaretz, that denied mak­ing those com­ments to you and added,

“I am par­tic­u­larly dis­ap­pointed by the president’s casual use of inap­pro­pri­ate stereo­types about Israelis, divid­ing their views on peace based on eth­nic ori­gins. I must add that these are unchar­ac­ter­is­tic com­ments from a man who has always been a sen­si­tive and thought­ful lis­tener and con­ver­sa­tion partner.”

Hmm. Should we con­strue those ridicu­lous remarks of yours as some type of pro-bono attempt to back Israel into a cor­ner again so your wife and US Pres­i­dent Barak Obama could nego­ti­ate a peace deal? What­ever it was, I can tell you it didn’t fly. Nor did it float. This one had lead weights attached and will need more than an out­go­ing pres­i­dent and his botched admin­is­tra­tion, to recover it. You will have to do some fast think­ing cou­pled with some solid foot­work in order to change the dis­course. Right now, any­one pro-Israel sees you as a racist. It’s fair to say that most have already lumped you in the same foot­note as for­mer US Pres­i­dent Jimmy Carter. Who would have known that two for­mer US pres­i­dents — a peanut farmer and guy famous for a blue dress pur­chased at The Gap— would both be racists?

Actu­ally, it’s start­ing to sound like Hillary is cut from the same cloth too. The AP just reported that Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Rod­ham Clin­ton is assur­ing Lebanon that the US will con­tinue to sup­port its gov­ern­ment and army despite fears in Con­gress that Lebanon could use US assis­tance against Israel. It’s time for slum­ber­ing peo­ple to wake up. Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Ahmadine­jad already pledged money along with oth­ers to help the Lebanese army. Why should the US? We could use the $100 mil­lion that the US put on hold to help stim­u­late our failed econ­omy. Why give it to a nation that funds ter­ror­ism? There is a rea­son Ahmadine­jad stepped up to pledge money and it’s the same rea­son he funds ter­ror­ism activ­i­ties of Hezbol­lah in the north. I’d hate to think that the US is sup­port­ing Ahmadinejad’s acts of ter­ror­ism. Talk about being hypocrite.

Hillary is a loose can­non that needs obvi­ous con­gres­sional (and voter inter­ven­tion) but Bill might be able to redeem him­self if he acts fast.

Bill, this calls for enlist­ing your well-known Palestinian-loving friend, Carter. First, stop slan­der­ing Jews and put your joint diplo­macy efforts to good use: FREE GILAD SHALIT from Hamas. Heck, while you’re at it, save Gaza from Hamas too. Then and only then can you and Carter advert going down in his­tory as two (three if you count Hillary) racists that aided rad­i­cal Islam while endan­ger­ing global democracy.

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