The Clintons and Israel - The Hill's Pundits Blog. The Clinton leisure-class era was every day in every way an age of appeasement.
But it is not the casual million-dollar bribes — one to get an Israeli businessman out of jail — that will bring Bill to historic infamy. Not the 50 gold watches. Not the white-trash adolescent sexuality unabashedly pioneered by him, customary now among governors of all races and creeds, but the signing of the Oslo Agreements with Yasser Arafat on Sept. 13, 1993. The Empire State hates it when one of its distant provinces like China or Israel speaks up without permission, and relations with Israel took a turn these last weeks with Joe Biden’s visit there. The New York Times had a rapid response to the kerfuffle, floating a header above its op-ed page on March 19 with a picture of Arafat, a “classic op-ed” and the headline “Israel’s best friend.” Michelle Kraus: Democrats: Harness the Rhetoric of the Tea Bagge. The prediction of 2010 is that states will become much more integral to governance, management and rebuilding the economy.
Go figure! Who would have thought that the rhetoric of the Tea Party loonies would be laden with gems? Those spin doctors have always been better than ours. Facebook.