{"id":697431,"date":"2010-03-22T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79930"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:03:18","slug":"clinton-ever-the-diplomat-challenges-israel-to-reject-failed-%e2%80%98status-quo%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697431","title":{"rendered":"Clinton, Ever the Diplomat, Challenges Israel to Reject Failed \u2018Status Quo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Hillary Rodham Clinton at her diplomatic best. After getting tepid applause at AIPAC for her call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict to ensure Israel&#8217;s future as a &#8220;democratic state&#8221; and her remark that the the &#8220;status quo&#8221; had failed, she called on all sides to &#8220;refrain from unilateral statements&#8221; and actions that &#8220;undermine the process.&#8221; That sounded first &#8212; aha! &#8212; like a reference to the &#8220;insult&#8221; Clinton said Vice President Biden got in Israel on additional Jerusalem settlement construction. But then, her voice rising in approbation, she blasted Hamas for naming a public area in Gaza after a terrorist, for &#8220;it insults the families on both sides who have loved ones.&#8221; Soon after, she praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<span id=\"more-79930\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When it came time to discuss the sensitive Jerusalem settlement issue, she said\u00a0&#8221;this was not about wounded pride, nor is it a judgment about the final status of Jerusalem. &#8230; This is about getting to the table &#8230; and staying there until the job is finally done.&#8221; Clinton reversed the typical framing of the dispute, saying that the diplomatic difficulty &#8220;exposes daylight between Israel and the United States that others in the region hope to exploit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Hillary Rodham Clinton at her diplomatic best. After getting tepid applause at AIPAC for her call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict to ensure Israel&#8217;s future as a &#8220;democratic state&#8221; and her remark that the the &#8220;status quo&#8221; had failed, she called on all sides to &#8220;refrain from unilateral statements&#8221; and actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VqT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}