Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she hated the governments and policies of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but said she loved America and Israel during an interview Thursday.
“I have said repeatedly I love Israel and I hate Netanyahu’s government and his policies. I love America, and I hate Trump’s government and policies. I think it’s bad, in the first case for Israel, what’s happening, and I think it’s really bad for the United States, what’s happening,” Clinton told MS NOW’s “Morning Joe.”
Clinton spoke to the MS NOW panel about Israel and achieving peace in the Middle East.
“I think we’ve got to be very clear, the messages we send, hopefully the Israeli people, especially after this bombshell that came out in the Israeli press, where Netanyahu had been literally called by Sheikh Mohammed, MBZ, from UAE, and warned that Hamas was planning something,” Clinton said.
“And either he didn’t believe it or he, it’s horrible to say, he wanted to see what they could plan so that then he could come down hard, and it would enhance his position.”
“I don’t know what his thinking was, but the bottom line, talk about a failure of imagination. This was a failure of leadership,” she continued. “This was a failure of protecting the people of Israel. He’s been told what was going to happen. So, if the Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position.”
“President Trump has a strong relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Israel has always been a great ally to the United States. The Israel Defense Forces were incredible partners throughout Operation Epic Fury, which decimated the Iranian regime’s military capabilities in 38 short days,” a White House official told Fox News Digital.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu 10 days before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks that the terrorist group was planning a major offensive. Netanyahu’s office has denied the report.
“The press reports are false. No warning was given to the Prime Minister from the United Arab Emirates before October 7th. If there was any relevant information, it was passed through intelligence channels between the two countries,” the prime minister’s office posted to X.
Netanyahu’s office did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Clinton told MS NOW she thinks the U.S. could work with a new government in Israel.
“I would hope that a new prime minister would crack down on settler violence in the West Bank,” she said. “There should be no impunity for that kind of violence. It is not just about the death and destruction of the Palestinians, their property and all the rest of it. Anytime you let people have that level of violence in a society that you don’t stop, that creeps into the whole society.”
“So, it’s unfair, bad and wrong for the Palestinians,” Clinton added. “And it’s also very dangerous to Israel. So, yeah, I think let’s see what they vote for and see whether we can’t, you know, figure out how to have a new approach with a new government.”
Clinton also spoke on the rise of socialism in the Democratic Party, and said, “Let people defend the positions they’ve taken. And I think that would be good for the Democratic Party. It would be good for the country.
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“Let them get out of the sloganeering and into the legislating and results-oriented impact.”
