In an interview yesterday Hillary Clinton chillingly suggested it is now U.S. policy to demand not only that Israel dismantle “illegal outposts” and stop any further settlement expansion in the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria, but also–and no distinction made here–to put a halt to “natural growth”: “We want to see a stop to settlement construction–additions, natural growth, any kind of settlement activity–that is what the president has called for.” Really? Do the Occidental-Columbia-Harvard-Illinois-senator-President and the Wellesley-Yale-New-York-senator-U.S.-secretary-of-state know what “natural growth” means? Surely, though a devotee of the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger, Mrs. Clinton doesn’t advocate the forced sterilization of Israelis living beyond the green line in established settlements, or restrictions on the building of additional housing to accommodate family expansion, does she? Does Mr. Obama? She must have misspoken. If so, though, how much better it would have been had it not been the anti-American, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah al Jazeera at the receiving end of her ignorance. And if not? There’s freezing indeed ahead for the Jewish state, and not just in settlements.
