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Citing the ancient story of how the Jews gained their freedom from slavery in Egypt, Clinton compared BDS with the "Pharaoh" who "denied the Israelites the right to worship as they chose."
"International efforts to malign and isolate the Jewish people — like the alarming 'BDS' movement — are gaining steam," the former Secretary of State wrote two days prior to the crucial New York Democratic primary.
Brant Rosen, co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Rabbinical Council, criticized Clinton's passage, referring to her analogy as "cynical."
"It feels more than a little galling to be given such a politically cynical Torah lesson by a candidate running for the highest office of the world's largest superpower," Rosen told AlterNet, "I'd say she's got her Pharaoh all wrong: America and Israel are the overwhelmingly more powerful and oppressive parties in this equation."
Comment: This 'woman' has no shame and no conscience. It is like equating the IDF with David and the Palestinians with Goliath. When you "choose" to "worship" apartheid policies, murder, assassination, torture, military occupation, land theft, arbitrary detention, and economic blockade, you are better linked with the mythical "pharaoh" of Jewish legend. You can count on Killary to sugar over the vile butchery of Israeli policies with whitewashing rhetoric!
Lynn Gottlieb, a JVP rabbinical council member and the first woman rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement, also condemned Clinton's rhetoric, adding that the BDS human rights movement, countering what she termed Israeli Apartheid is, "a series of nonviolent tactics that target state policies and corporations that are profiting from harming other human beings through massive land theft, denial of freedom of movement, and many other violations of human rights that Clinton knows very well."
Clinton is accused of cynically invoking stories in the Torah as a method of tightening the bond with Israel's right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"So that they would never again be subjugated, the Jewish people arrive to their own homeland," the article reads. "I've proudly stood with the State of Israel for my entire career, making sure it always has the resources it needs to maintain its qualitative military edge. I also worked to ensure funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system and saw its effectiveness first-hand when I worked with Prime Minister Netanyahu to negotiate a cease-fire in Gaza."
Comment: Which is exactly why this woman should never be allowed to set foot within 100 miles of the White House.
Samantha Brotman, a Jewish-American who organizes in solidarity with Palestinians, told AlterNet that using the Passover story as an election tactic "is crass and heavy-handed," adding that blind support for Israel and "indifference towards Palestinian lives" by US presidential candidates is "alarming."
...seems to be a winning factor in all political corners (no surprise there).
But, If all Hillary has to show for her "support" of Israel is how much money we throw them (taxpayer money - not hers),
then she has to find some other way to say it. I doubt she has any way to relate to the Jews as a people in real time.
When she thinks everything that rolls off that silver tongue is straight from G-d's lips, then she will say anything she want and argue that no one really understands what she meant.
Besides, "what does it really matter" what she says at this point.
Someone has already convinced her she will be the next president.