In an email from Dec. 18, 2011, former ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering advocated fomenting turmoil among the Palestinian people as a method of forcing the Israeli government back to the negotiating table, ostensibly in a weaker position.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Pickering described the plan as a “game changer in the region.”
Hillary Clinton’s State Department conspired to create unrest using PLO demonstrations to “bring Israel to the negotiationing table,”
In a Dec, 18, 2011, email, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas 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.”
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Pickering noted that the administration must keep its role in the demonstration a secret, so as not to aggravate ties with Israel.
Pickering is acknowledging that a) he and those in the administration were tacitly choosing the terrorist side over Israel’s democracy, and b) he was, through this plan, possibly encouraging terrorist attacks.
But the shenanigans didn’t end there. As long as the State Department was seriously contemplating fomenting unrest against long-standing ally in the region, why not follow the advice of former Obama top adviser Rahm Emanuel about not letting a crisis go to waste.
Another Clinton confidant, Anne Marie Slaughter, sent a staff-wide email to Clinton staffers recommending that they undertake a “Pledge for Palestine” campaign aimed at convincing U.S. millionaires and billionaires to donate significant portions of their wealth to the Palestinian cause.
The effort, Slaughter wrote in the September 2010 email, could help shame Israel.
“Such a campaign among billionaires/multi-millionaires around the world would reflect a strong vote of confidence in the building of a Palestinian state and could offset the ending of the moratorium for Palestinians,” Slaughter wrote. “There would also be a certain shaming effect re Israelis, who would be building settlements in the face of a pledge for peace.”
Yet, remarkably the Jewish vote is still split almost evenly when it comes to Clinton for president.
