ADL Calls Clinton's Call to Bibi 'Gross Overreaction'
Sat, March 13, 2010 
Reviewing the morning press about the state of American|Israeli relations, we’ve not quoted Al Jazzera all week on this subject. Their news story about events, including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, appears accurate, fair and balanced.
Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the West Bank town of Ramallah, said Clinton’s unprecedented reaction had raised some hopes in the Palestinian territories.
“These kinds of reactions are not customary from the US, regardless of whether its a Republican or Democratic administration in the White House,” she said. “The Palestinians are watching very carefully. They have welcomed the American rebuke … all eyes are on Washington - this is the closest ally to Israel and the country that has the most leverage to exercise in the Middle East.” via Al Jazeera
The Middle East diplomatic Quartet — comprised of the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations — last night condemned Israel’s announcement about new settlements.
Haaretz reports this morning that:
” … U.S. based Anti-Defamation League said late Friday that it was “stunned” by Clinton’s “dressing down” of Israel.
“We cannot remember an instance when such harsh language was directed at a friend and ally of the United States,” said Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in a statement.
The ADL called Clinton’s remarks a “gross overreaction” to a “policy difference among friends.” via Haaretz
From our perspective, Secretary Clinton’s response was perfectly pitched.
To the many international women who read Anne of Carversville, please note the tactic of suggesting that the woman in charge responded irrationally. This is a typical, unenlightened male response to a woman who makes sense. You suggest that she is irrational.
It’s possible that the opposition to peace in the Middle East may call Secy Clinton ‘menopausal’ by Monday. Everyone stay calm. We’ve got her back.
This week’s events in Israel could be the beginning of a period of ‘giant clarification’ of issues that impact the world. Once and for all, women will bring politics, religion, and women together in a single analysis of events, because women are holistic thinkers. And we are far less ideological then men.
Some of us may also be called anti-Jewish, but this is not true. In Love and War people say bad words to each other.
In my case, I respect educated, intelligent Jews more than any group on the planet. But I do not respect the men who will not shake my hand. They are bringing down the world — along with all other fundamentalists of every religion. There are no good guys in the group.
Women of every country and religous background are taking a look at the world the way it is, and not the way we want it to be. There is a possibility that we will not blame another religion or another country for the world’s problems this time, but instead we will back up further in history, asking ‘how did we get to this dreadful place where events thousands of years old define our lives today?’
The answers are clear in my mind, and I’m hardly the only smart woman on the planet.
Israel should interpret Secretary Clinton’s ‘gross overreaction’ to the f—- you Israel handed both America, and people working desperately hard for peace in the Middle East this week, within this context.
This ‘diplomatic incident’ could be a game changer, and it’s only the beginning of what could be a new story for the world’s women, children and men, too. Anne
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