{"id":76368,"date":"2016-07-18T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76368"},"modified":"2016-07-14T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:04:03","slug":"clinton-led-democrats-are-now-to-the-right-of-george-w-bush-on-palestinian-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/clinton-led-democrats-are-now-to-the-right-of-george-w-bush-on-palestinian-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton-Led Democrats Are Now \u201cTo the Right of George W. Bush\u201d on Palestinian Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Guardian<\/em>, January 9, 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Haaretz<\/em>, June 25, 2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"haaretz1-540x378\"haaretz2-540x255<\/a>There are countless ways to see that the rhetorical\u00a0monuments of magnanimity, humanitarianism and equality which\u00a0Democratic Party leaders and their loyal followers love to erect in honor of\u00a0themselves are\u00a0nothing more than manipulative, self-glorifying dreck. But few pathologies illustrate that deceit more potently than their utter indifference, and now \u2013 in the Hillary Clinton era \u2013\u00a0outright contempt for the plight of Palestinians and their steadfast subservience to right-wing Israeli nationalism. As Demos\u2019 Sean McElwee put it<\/a>: \u201cThe Democratic platform is now officially to the right of George W. Bush on Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton herself has covertly run one of the most anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli-aggression presidential campaigns<\/a> in modern history \u2013 from either party. That\u2019s not surprising given her general militarism and the dominance of American-Israeli billionaire Haim \u201cI\u2019m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel<\/a>\u201d Saban in funding her campaign<\/a> and the Democratic Party generally<\/a>. Surprising or not, though, the Clinton-led Democratic Party\u2019s hostility toward the most basic precepts of equality and dignity for Palestinians, and their willingness \u2013 their eagerness<\/em> \u2013 to support and cheer for the most extremist Israeli acts of oppression, racism and decades-long occupation, is nothing short of despicable.<\/p>\n

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Surprising or not, the Clinton-led Democratic Party\u2019s hostility toward the most basic precepts of equality and dignity for Palestinians, and their willingness \u2013 their eagerness \u2013 to support and cheer for the most extremist Israeli acts of oppression, racism and decades-long occupation, is nothing short of despicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}