I'm pretty disgusted by the misogyny shown in a lot of posts on this poll. That's how you attempt to rebut what Clinton has to say--by calling her a bitch? You should be looking at how you treat women--sounds a lot like Iran as well.
And women aren't treated as they should be in Israel. Clinton is right.
The Jewish community readily admits that the shameful situation of the agunah, a woman chained to an unwanted or non-existent marriage who cannot be released without her husband's consent, is unjust. It is common knowledge that some Jewish husbands withhold their consent to a religious divorce or get, in order to extort exorbitant sums of money from their wives as the "price" for the get. Nonetheless, the Jewish community, despite a high level of educational attainment, financial success, organizational skills and traditional commitment to social justice, has been unable or unwilling to find solutions to the painful problem of the agunah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Secretary Hillary Clinton Says Israel Reminds Her of Iran's Treatment of Women: Fair or Foul?
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at a closed session in Washington DC. Based on Hillary Clinton's history, it should not surprise anyone that Hillary would make these anti-Israel remarks.
Secretary Clinton has a history of sympathy with the PLO, Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians. In February 2007, then a U.S. Senator from New York (D), Hillary gave a symbolic kiss to Suha Arafat, the widow of Yasser Arafat. Hillary also has a 15-year "relationship" with her Deputy Chief of Staff and aide, Huma Abein, who practices Islam.
Earlier in 2011, Secretary Clinton spent nearly an hour chastising Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for building apartments in Israel's capital of Jerusalem.
President Obama, who appointed Hillary to the Secretary of State position, also has a long antipathy toward Israel. Obama routinely claims Israel as an ally, but Obama's rhetoric doesn't match his open hostility toward the Jewish state. The David Horowitz Freedom Center documents the American-Israeli relationship during Obama in this video:
The Middle East has erupted in chaos during President Obama's administration. Stable countries like Egypt, which showed tolerance to Israel for over 30 years now has great hostility toward America and Israel.
The situation calls for calming not inflammatory rhetoric against Israel, America's greatest ally in the region -- and perhaps the entire world.
I consider Secretary Clinton's remarks as dangerous to the American-Israeli relationship and not an isolated event.
Speaking to a closed forum in Washington on Saturday, Clinton criticized recent legislative attempts in Israel to restrict left-wing organizations and expressed shock over growing discrimination against Israeli women. She mentioned cases of IDF soldiers leaving during performances of female singers and the fact that females sit in the back of buses in certain places in Israel. Clinton said that some of these phenomena reminded her of Iran. [Jewish Daily Forward]
Secretary Clinton has a history of sympathy with the PLO, Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians. In February 2007, then a U.S. Senator from New York (D), Hillary gave a symbolic kiss to Suha Arafat, the widow of Yasser Arafat. Hillary also has a 15-year "relationship" with her Deputy Chief of Staff and aide, Huma Abein, who practices Islam.Earlier in 2011, Secretary Clinton spent nearly an hour chastising Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for building apartments in Israel's capital of Jerusalem.
President Obama, who appointed Hillary to the Secretary of State position, also has a long antipathy toward Israel. Obama routinely claims Israel as an ally, but Obama's rhetoric doesn't match his open hostility toward the Jewish state. The David Horowitz Freedom Center documents the American-Israeli relationship during Obama in this video:
The Middle East has erupted in chaos during President Obama's administration. Stable countries like Egypt, which showed tolerance to Israel for over 30 years now has great hostility toward America and Israel.
The situation calls for calming not inflammatory rhetoric against Israel, America's greatest ally in the region -- and perhaps the entire world.
I consider Secretary Clinton's remarks as dangerous to the American-Israeli relationship and not an isolated event.
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melly~thwarting Satan since... 2011/12/11 18:52:39
Our Stand on building in Jerusalem is none of our business. It is their city and we should not be interfering with it and in fact supporting them. Asking them to give up anymore land or peace. We should not be doing this. If Mexico or Canada were sending missiles in to America, what we do in response. I do not think that we would tolerate it at all. I say that our response would not be as restrained as Israels has been.
Should we give California to Texas back to Mexico. I think not.
No. Neither should the Palestinians.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
12/04/2011 14:40
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday responded to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's concerns over Israeli democracy, saying that this worry "should serve to wake up all those that are still blind to the murky cloud that is passing over Israel from within."
Livni added: "Friends and admirers of Israel from within and without are worried about processes that Israel is undergoing. This concern is coming from those who fight for us in the UN and against our detractors, and who act to preserve Israel's military advantage in the area."
http://www.jpost.com/Headline...
But I think EVERYONE can agree, that when an Israeli woman and political leader agrees- speaking about her own society and gender- speaks out against the same issue-
it is pretty hard to dismiss her views.
Tzipi Livni praised Clinton, calling her speech a wise warning to Israelis about the dangers to their democracy.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/1...
Livni: Clinton's concern for Israeli democracy legitimate
By JPOST.COM STAFF
12/04/2011 14:40
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday responded to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's concerns over Israeli democracy, saying that this worry "should serve to wake up all those that are still blind to the murky cloud that is passing over Israel from within."
New rabbinical courts will lead to oppression of women
22.11.11
Battered wives seeking a divorce, women seeking to convert, women who underwent conversions that these courts refused to recognize or retroactively annulled -...
But I think EVERYONE can agree, that when an Israeli woman and political leader agrees- speaking about her own society and gender- speaks out against the same issue-
it is pretty hard to dismiss her views.
Tzipi Livni praised Clinton, calling her speech a wise warning to Israelis about the dangers to their democracy.
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/1...
Livni: Clinton's concern for Israeli democracy legitimate
By JPOST.COM STAFF
12/04/2011 14:40
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Sunday responded to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's concerns over Israeli democracy, saying that this worry "should serve to wake up all those that are still blind to the murky cloud that is passing over Israel from within."
New rabbinical courts will lead to oppression of women
22.11.11
Battered wives seeking a divorce, women seeking to convert, women who underwent conversions that these courts refused to recognize or retroactively annulled - all are victims of a system that is becoming more and more extreme, forcing them to traverse a vale of tears.
The rabbinical courts will complete a reactionary turnaround whose essence is the oppression of women.
As Yair Ettinger reported in Monday's Haaretz, it seems that the vote the Bar is slated to hold Tuesday will, for the first time in 12 years, result in a sweeping majority for the representatives of the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox ) parties, while moderate groups that have worked to further women's rights in the rabbinical courts will be shunted aside. This is a change with devastating implications: It means the reactionary Haredi approach will gain control of the rabbinical courts.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-...
I PITTY THE REST OF THE POLULATION!!!
http://www.haaretz.com/print-...
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
This link is my comment right above-
Even Tzipi Livni (a prominent Israeli female leader) praises Hillary.
George Orwell
Besides that, Hillary SUX!
I'm ready for the USA to end its special relationship with Israel. Our funds would be better spent elsewhere.