Monday, January 11, 2016

"Clinton Considered Secret Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests"

The Washington Free Beacon: In a Dec, 18, 2011, email, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider a plan to restart then-stalled peace negotiations by kickstarting Palestinian demonstrations against Israel.
Pickering described the effort as a potential “game changer in the region,” recommending that the United States undertake a clandestine campaign to generate unrest. Clinton requested that his email be printed. 
“What will change the situation is a major effort to use non-violent protests and demonstrations to put peace back in the center of people’s aspirations as well as their thoughts, and use that to influence the political leadership,” Pickering wrote.
“This is far from a sure thing, but far, in my humble view, from hopeless,” he continued. “Women can and ought to be at the center of these demonstrations. Many men and others will denigrate the idea. I don’t and I don’t think that was your message.”
Palestinian women, he noted, are less likely than men to resort to violence.
“It must be all and only women. Why? On the Palestinian side the male culture is to use force,” Pickering wrote, comparing the effort to the protests in Egypt that deposed former leader Hosni Mubarak. “Palestinian men will not for long patiently demonstrate — they will be inclined over time and much too soon to be frustrated and use force. Their male culture comes close to requiring it.”
Saul Alinsky goes international.

8 comments:

ricpic said...

Playing with other people's lives -- the ultimate high.

bagoh20 said...

Does anyone ever consider trying to get the Palestinians to consider peace as an option?

Chip Ahoy said...

Red banner news across the land for hungry nation starving for truth. Psych etc. I keep punking myself for fun.

I just now landed on my future devastating polemics. Should I bother. I imagine them now because the characters are no longer around. I was thinking about that this morning. A few could be dead and I wouldn't know, so successful the cutoff of nonsense. IRL the trick is stay friendly with a "behind all that here we are" attitude, but lean in closely and lower the volume by half, "Don't even TALK to me about your spiritual search for truth when down here on Earth in the here and now you openly channel energy to corruption to affect change on a national scale." Keep it new agey. Accept no counterarguments, yes, yes, your re-stuccoed tropehouse is lovely and braced for a new season, and behind all that, here we are.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

You simply can't have such a large assembly of women without triggering the Palestinian rape reflex...

Interesting, I read somewhere that certain acts by women can be interpreted as women signaling that they want to be raped.

It would have been irresponsible of Hillary to allow this tragic possible outcome... should protesting be seen as a signal of a desire to be rape. Mind you, this is all rank speculation.

Amartel said...

Agit-prop writ large and using horrible language: "put peace back in the center of people’s aspirations as well as their thoughts, and use that to influence the political leadership" So, basically, disrupt peoples' peaceful lives so they will petition their government to appease the disrupters so they can get back to their peaceful lives.

The only thing less sympathetic than the Palestinians are the vile creatures who exploit them for political and personal gain. Hard not to feel sorry for collateral damage/cannon fodder pawns. They did vote for this shit, though, and they willingly pose for photos and help the press maintain the illusion of Israeli oppression.

edutcher said...

This is how wars start.

Especially when it's incompetents doing it.

Rabel said...

That sounds incredibly stupid. Pickering was the chairman of the Accountability Review Board which "cleared" Clinton of responsibility for the deaths in Benghazi - without interviewing Clinton.

Methadras said...

They are all just pissants and peons to her. How this woman has been given such power is mind numbingly bizarre. She shouldn't be anywhere near anything of governmental power ever again. In fact, she should be in chains.