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Published: 23 September, 2010, 13:29
Edited: 26 September, 2010, 23:10


Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks with television reporter Maria Bartiromo of CNBC (not pictured) during the taping of a program titled "Meeting of the Minds," at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2010

Russian-speaking Israelis have reacted angrily to the former US president’s statement that they are “an obstacle to peace with Palestinians.”

 
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Bogdanov September 23, 2010, 19:10 quote
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"Sixteen percent of Israelis speak Russian". I have news for Mr.Clinton -- more than sixteen percent of Jewish in the United States speak Russian. May be this is the reason and obstacle for the US to become a peaceful and normal country? Also, it seems to me that this blame of Russian Jewish I have already heard somewhere... Oh-h, that was Joseph Goebbels, who said 70 years ago that "Jews coming from the East are like a plague. They are destabizing and poluting the Western society." By the way, the Nazis has recepie how to deal with this. So, Mr.Clilnton may borrow it and start construction of Auschwitz-like camps in Israel and the USA. They seemed were pretty effective for "cleaning the house from the plague".

boz September 23, 2010, 19:50 quote
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Actually the majority of the 'Russians' are in fact Ukranians, who continue to create their ghettos on Occupied Land and treating International Law, and the Palestinians, with the kind of contempt that neither deserve.

rburg September 24, 2010, 06:31 quote
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Same old BS from the Clintons, trying to blame Russia for everything.

johnx September 24, 2010, 07:45 quote
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Is this the same Bill Clinton who supported Bin Ladin and every other international Islamic terrorist group in the Balkans for which they were able to in foothold in Europe for which we got 9/11 and every other terrorist attack and approved Iranian arms shipments to fighters in Bosnia. http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-03-30/Is_there_a_haven_for_Islamists_in_Europe_s_backyard.html Anyway the support right wing position comes from lobby groups and political financiers in the US not any regional political parties in Israel. @boz Palestinian groups like HAMAS have been involved in jihadist or Islamic movements since the 1950's in Central Asia and helped to ethnically cleanse the non-Muslim population like in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Larisa September 24, 2010, 09:58 quote
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At the speed that US manages to offend everyone in the world today, very soon there will be no one left on our planet who would even want to talk to Americans on any issue. You'd think that an ex US president would know what things NOT to say. But no - the idiocracy of the US political class is too pervasive and common sense is non-existent. And that's just the beginning. I am curious to see just how low they'll stoop and what they'll say (or do) when things get realy nasty for them?

starlight September 25, 2010, 01:30 quote
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Israels original creation was made up from peoples of eastern Europe including Russians. These peoples are the people whose job was to ethnically cleanse the country of its ethnic inhabitants who are Palestinian, who are Jewish, Christian and Muslim by religious following. Not only its inhabitants also their businesses, banks, companies, towns, villages, culture and history. They continue this work til today. There are something in the region of 3 million Palestinians in the world who are not allowed to return to their homeland, their motherland. Those people who call themselves Israelis have a homeland they can go back to and they will be allowed in. This so called Israel cannot integrate with the countries in their surroundings, which will cause its doom and failure. The so called two state solution would not work, since it does not bring the question of the 3 million Palestinians into the question of their return. The true solution would be for the return of the 3 million Palestinians and their total integration. This would mean a complete democratic process of elections for a government that has no religious preferences. This would of course mean the end of the Israel we know today. Which ever way you look at it the way Israel has been set up will inevitably fail regardless of whether its inhabitants speak Russian, Polish, Bulgarian German etc etc. There was an interesting article by Jeffrey Goldberg on the front cover "Atlantic Monthly" an interview with Netanyahu, you can find it on the internet, also an article of the same at Newropeans.org on this subject. It might open your eyes to some realities.

Silvia September 25, 2010, 06:08 quote
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To Starlight - 3 MILLION PALESTINIANS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND. And what about 1 million Jews who were expelled fron Arab countries and who became Israeli citizens (while the rich, oil-producers Arab countries have never given hospitality to Palestinian refugees) ?

joseph walker September 25, 2010, 18:22 quote
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Time Clinton took his medication,if not under medication,seek medical advice ,it seems american politicans meander between reality ,and ignorance.Or so deluded ,with themselves ,imagine millions are interested in what they say.

sam September 26, 2010, 22:35 quote
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I wonder, does Mr Liberman of Israel , as we know is Russian immigrant , does he have a criminal record when he in the Russia , when he talks it doesn't sound a normal person , does it?, then Mr Clinton may be correct in his diagnosis ?.

ken November 04, 2010, 12:54 quote
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@johnx " Palestinian groups like HAMAS have been involved in jihadist or Islamic movements since the 1950's in Central Asia" . so was irgun they did many bombings and king david ones is one of their famous one it was declared a terrorist group and later irgun members became pm and presidnet of israel it means they are terrorists.ethnic cleansing in bosnia you must be kidding non muslims serbs did that and in kosovo both of the communities were trying to do that..please to show two sides of the topic not inly one because you very much sound like an anti muslim.thank you

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