Lady MacClinton Plotting For Power

The wicked witch of Washington is spinning like a dervish. Here she goes, trying to lock up the Jewish vote. It's time to remember how cozy she was with the Arafats. Let's post her kissy face with Suha all over the place. Remember also, while in the Whitehouse, Hillary hosted receptions for leaders of groups such as the American Muslim Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

WASHINGTON - New York's junior senator yesterday was sharper in her criticism of the Palestinian Authority than Israel's Likud prime minister at the annual policy conference for America's largest pro-Israel lobby.

Before thousands of activists of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Senator Clinton, a Democrat of New York, criticized Palestinian textbooks and other materials that "infect" young minds with anti-Semitism. "Using children as pawns in a political process is tantamount to child abuse," she said to cheers from activists. "And we must say it has to end now."

Ms. Clinton was attacked in her 2000 Senate campaign by many in the pro-Israel community for being too close to Yasser Arafat. She had to explain hugging Suha Arafat when she was first lady and her decision to allow an Arafat associate, Hani Masri, to host a private fund-raising event on her behalf. On her December 11, 1999, visit to Gaza, Ms. Arafat accused Israelis of poisoning Palestinian water supplies and causing cancer in women and children, with Mrs. Clinton at her side. At the time, Mrs. Clinton was blasted by American Zionists for her silence.

Since then, Mrs. Clinton has worked diligently to reinvent herself on the question of Israel. She has held hearings on the issue of anti-Semitism in Palestinian and Arab textbooks and state-run press, an issue that was barely noticed in the 1990s when she was first lady.

Ms. Clinton often chose to frame her remarks with "we" and "us" including herself among the group of activists before they went to Congress to encourage their representatives to sign a letter calling on the White House to press Mr. Abbas to follow through on his pledge to dismantle terrorist cells in the Gaza before Israel leaves it. "We must also demand that President Abbas dismantle the structures of terror," the senator said.

From The New York Sun.