{"id":457843,"date":"2010-03-22T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79928"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:48:38","slug":"clinton-on-full-on-reconciliation-detail-at-aipac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457843","title":{"rendered":"Clinton on Full-On Reconciliation Detail at AIPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mentioned the &#8220;longstanding American policy that does not accept continued settlements&#8221; and the obligation to tell Israel &#8220;hard truths,&#8221; her speech to the largest pro-Israel lobby group is clearly a speech about unbreakable ties between the U.S. and Israel.<span id=\"more-79928\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In her speech to The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), she offered a strong defense of the Obama administration&#8217;s warm feelings toward Israel and even tied him to the Jewish experience by saying, &#8220;President Obama and his family have lived the diaspora experience.&#8221; Most importantly, she devoted a long section of her speech to discussing what AIPAC considers its top priority:\u00a0&#8221;The United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,&#8221; Clinton. &#8220;The world has seen it is Iran, not the United States, responsible for the impasse&#8230; More and more nations are finally expressing deep concerns about Iran&#8217;s intentions, and there is a growing international consensus on pressuring Iran&#8217;s leaders to change course.&#8221; Clinton held out hope for U.N. Security Council-backed &#8220;sanctions that will bite&#8221; on an intransigent Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Iran, Clinton reminded AIPAC&#8217;s delegates that &#8220;we repeatedly voted against the deeply flawed Goldstone report&#8221; that blamed Israel and Hamas for human rights abuses in Gaza and Israel. &#8220;This administration will always stand up for Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mentioned the &#8220;longstanding American policy that does not accept continued settlements&#8221; and the obligation to tell Israel &#8220;hard truths,&#8221; her speech to the largest pro-Israel lobby group is clearly a speech about unbreakable ties between the U.S. and Israel. In her speech to The American Israel Public Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}