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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Re: [mukto-mona] 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election



I am not asking him to alter anything except to look more presidential. But he simply makes one mistake after another. Was there any need for him to tell Hillary that she is a nasty woman? How that helps his straight talking strategy at this stage? He would need people' votes not praise for his masculinity.


On Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:47 PM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
Deeldar: "Straight speaking is good during the primaries but not as a nominee. The man broke the rule."
 
 
As a conventional political strategy, this notion may be right. Trump has exposed this age-old double-talk professional political strategy, and brought back straight-talk as his brand, which propelled him to where he is today. That brand is precious for him. 
 
Trump gained 10 points in a week in the national poll, taken before the latest news of the revival of old FBI investigation against Hillary Clinton. He is now only 2 points behind, which shows - he is winning with his straight-talk brand.
 
People are tired of double-talking professional politicians.
 
You may ask, why he is not 10 points ahead? This is where Media comes in. He is facing biased hostile establishment media, which is interested in their bottom line, and status quo is good for them. So, Trump is not their candidate. Naturally, they are much more interested in his negative than positive points. That's why - it has been very difficult for him to put his  brand messages to the ordinary people. 
 
If he alters his brand now, and starts to talk like professional politicians, he will fall back 10 points again in a week.
 
Jiten Roy 
 
Jiten Roy



From: "Shah Deeldar shahdeeldar@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

 
Duplicity is her only and best strategy! But left/moderates will swallow and go for her. Trump needs no enemies when republicans and women are abandoning him in a mass. Straight speaking is good during the primaries but not as a nominee. The man broke the rule. Only a miracle can save him from defeat. This will facilitate next Bush or Rubio to win in 2020?


On Saturday, October 29, 2016 9:51 AM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-clinton-proposing-rigging-palestine-election/

 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

Unearthed tape: 'We should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win'
By Ken Kurson • 10/28/16 1:00pm
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<img class="size-large wp-image-860436" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635" alt="Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speak during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. " width="635" height="385" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635 635w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=1270 1270w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=300 300w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px" />
Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speak during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton was running for a shoo-in re-election as a U.S. senator. Her trip making the rounds of editorial boards brought her to Brooklyn to meet the editorial board of the Jewish Press.
The tape was never released and has only been heard by the small handful of Jewish Press staffers in the room. According to Chomsky, his old-school audiocassette is the only existent copy and no one has heard it since 2006, until today when he played it for the Observer.
The tape is 45 minutes and contains much that is no longer relevant, such as analysis of the re-election battle that Sen. Joe Lieberman was then facing in Connecticut. But a seemingly throwaway remark about elections in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority has taken on new relevance amid persistent accusations in the presidential campaign by Clinton's Republican opponent Donald Trump that the current election is "rigged."
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Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
"I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake," said Sen. Clinton. "And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."
Chomsky recalls being taken aback that "anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections."
Some eyebrows were also raised when then-Senator Clinton appeared to make a questionable moral equivalency.
<img class="wp-image-860443 size-medium" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=250&#038;h=300" alt="Eli Chomsky participated in an interview with Hillary Clinton at the Jewish Press in 2006." width="250" height="300" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=250&amp;h=300 250w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=500&amp;h=600 500w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" />
Eli Chomsky, photographed today at the Observer offices, participated in an interview with Hillary Clinton at the Jewish Press in 2006. - Observer
Regarding capturing combatants in war—the June capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas militants who came across the Gaza border via an underground tunnel was very much front of mind—Clinton can be heard on the tape saying, "And then, when, you know, Hamas, you know, sent the terrorists, you know, through the tunnel into Israel that killed and captured, you know, kidnapped the young Israeli soldier, you know, there's a sense of like, one-upsmanship, and in these cultures of, you know, well, if they captured a soldier, we've got to capture a soldier."
Equating Hamas, which to this day remains on the State Department's official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, with the armed forces of a close American ally was not what many expected to hear in the Jewish Press editorial offices, which were then at Third Avenue and Third Street in Brooklyn. (The paper's office has since moved to the Boro Park section of Brooklyn.) The use of the phrase "these cultures" is also a bit of a head-scratcher.
According to Chomsky, Clinton was "gracious, personable and pleasant throughout" the interview, taking about an hour to speak to, in addition to himself, managing editor Jerry Greenwald, assistant to the publisher Naomi Klass Mauer, counsel Dennis Rapps and senior editor Jason Maoz.
Another part of the tape highlights something that was relatively uncontroversial at the time but has taken on new meaning in light of the current campaign—speaking to leaders with whom our country is not on the best terms. Clinton has presented a very tough front in discussing Russia, for example, accusing Trump of unseemly ardor for strongman Vladimir Putin and mocking his oft-stated prediction that as president he'd "get along" with Putin.
Chomsky is heard on the tape asking Clinton what now seems like a prescient question about Syria, given the disaster unfolding there and its looming threat to drag the U.S., Iran and Russia into confrontation.
"Do you think it's worth talking to Syria—both from the U.S. point [of view] and Israel's point [of view]?"
Clinton replied, "You know, I'm pretty much of the mind that I don't see what it hurts to talk to people. As long as you're not stupid and giving things away. I mean, we talked to the Soviet Union for 40 years. They invaded Hungary, they invaded Czechoslovakia, they persecuted the Jews, they invaded Afghanistan, they destabilized governments, they put missiles 90 miles from our shores, we never stopped talking to them," an answer that reflects her mastery of the facts but also reflects a willingness to talk to Russia that sounds more like Trump 2016 than Clinton 2016.
<img class="size-medium wp-image-860446" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=153" alt="This is how news used to be collected." width="153" height="300" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=153 153w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=306 306w" sizes="(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px" />
This is how news used to be collected. - Observer
Shortly after, she said, "But if you say, 'they're evil, we're good, [and] we're never dealing with them,' I think you give up a lot of the tools that you need to have in order to defeat them…So I would like to talk to you [the enemy] because I want to know more about you. Because if I want to defeat you, I've got to know something more about you. I need different tools to use in my campaign against you. That's my take on it."
A final bit of interest to the current campaign involves an articulation of phrases that Trump has accused Clinton of being reluctant to use. Discussing the need for a response to terrorism, Clinton said, "I think you can make the case that whether you call it 'Islamic terrorism' or 'Islamo-fascism,' whatever the label is we're going to give to this phenomenon, it's a threat. It's a global threat. To Europe, to Israel, to the United States…Therefore we need a global response. It's a global threat and it needs a global response. That can be the, sort of, statement of principle…So I think sometimes having the global vision is a help as long as you realize that underneath that global vision there's a lot of variety and differentiation that has to go on."
It's not clear what she means by a global vision with variety and differentiation, but what's quite clear is that the then-senator, just five years after her state was the epicenter of the September 11 attacks, was comfortable deploying the phrase "Islamic terrorism" and the even more strident "Islamo-fascism," at least when meeting with the editorial board of a Jewish newspaper.
In an interview before the Observer heard the tape, Chomsky told the Observer that Clinton made some "odd and controversial comments" on the tape. The irony of a decade-old recording emerging to feature a candidate making comments that are suddenly relevant to voters today was not lost on Chomsky, who wrote the original story at the time. Oddly enough, that story, headlined "Hillary Clinton on Israel, Iraq and Terror," is no longer available on jewishpress.com and even a short summary published on the Free Republic site offers a broken link that can no longer surface the story.
"I went to my bosses at the time," Chomsky told the Observer. "The Jewish Press had this mindset that they would not want to say anything offensive about anybody—even a direct quote from anyone—in a position of influence because they might need them down the road. My bosses didn't think it was newsworthy at the time. I was convinced that it was and I held onto it all these years."
Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, publisher of Observer Media.
 








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[mukto-mona] Pakistan is ruled by military and non-state terrorists!



So, Pakistanis are being killed by their own terrorists, can they really blame others?


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সহিংসতা ছেড়ে নির্বাচনে অংশ নিতে বিএনপি'র প্রতি নাসিমের আহ্বান - 
বিএনপির ২০১৪ সালের সাধারণ নির্বাচন বর্জনকে একটি ভুল সিদ্ধান্ত বলে অভিহিত করে স্বাস্থ্য ও পরিবার কল্যাণ মন্ত্রী মোহাম্মদ নাসিম বলেছেন, দেশের কোথায়ও বিএনপির স্থান নেই।
তিনি বলেন, 'কোথায়ও বিএনপি নেই। না জাতীয় সংসদে, না রাজনীতিতে। এর কারণ তাদের চেয়ারপার্সনের ভুল রাজনৈতিক সিদ্ধান্ত। নির্বাচন বর্জন করে তারা কিছুই অর্জন করতে পারবে না। তাই আমি তাদেরকে সহিংসতার পথ পরিহার করে নির্বাচনে অংশ নিতে অনুরোধ করছি।'
আন্তর্জাতিক গবেষণা দিবস-২০১৬ উপলক্ষে নগরীর শাহবাগ এলাকায় বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব মেডিকেল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (বিএসএমএমইউ)-এর মিলন হলে অনুষ্ঠিত এক আলোচনা সভায় প্রধান অতিথির বক্তৃতায় তিনি মঙ্গলবার এ কথা বলেন।
বেগম জিয়াকে উদ্দেশ্য করে নাসিম বলেন, 'আপনি যে পথ অনুসরণ করছেন তা জনগণের কোন উপকার বয়ে আনবে না। বরং আপনি জনগণের আস্থা ও বিশ্বাস হারাবেন।'
তিনি বলেন, 'আওয়ামী লীগের জাতীয় সম্মেলনে বিএনপি'র একটি প্রতিনিধিদল আসবে বলে আমরা আশা করেছিলাম, কিন্তু কেউ আসেনি।'
নাসিম বলেন, প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার গতিশীল নেতৃত্বের কারণে বিশ্বের সব শক্তিশালী দেশ বাংলাদেশকে সহায়তার জন্য এগিয়ে আসছে।
তিনি বলেন, আওয়ামী লীগের জাতীয় সম্মেলন দলের ভাবমূর্তি উজ্জ্বল করেছে এবং দেশকে গণতন্ত্রের পথে এগিয়ে নিয়েছে।
১১টি দেশের রাজনৈতিক দলের নেতারা সম্মেলনে এসে দলের সভানেত্রী প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার প্রশংসা করেছেন। তারা সম্মেলনের সফলতা কামনা করেছেন। তারা বলেছেন, আওয়ামী লীগ দেশকে এগিয়ে নিচ্ছে এবং তারা জনগণের প্রত্যাশা পূরণ করতে পারবে।
বিএসএমএমইউ'র বিভিন্ন ফ্যাকাল্টিকে গভীরভাবে গবেষণা করার আহ্বান জানিয়ে মন্ত্রী বলেন, মেডিকেল সাইন্সের গবেষকদের অবশ্যই নতুন নতুন রোগ প্রতিরোধের উপায় খুঁজে বের করতে হবে এবং কম দামে জনগণের স্বাস্থ্য সেবা প্রদান করতে হবে।
তিনি বলেন, স্বাস্থ্য সেবা পাওয়া জনগণের একটি মৌলিক অধিকার। একজন স্বাস্থ্যবান মানুষই দেশ গঠনে কার্যক্রমে ভূমিকা রাখতে পারেন।
বিএসএমএমইউ'র ভাইস চ্যান্সেলর দেশে চিকিৎসায় উচ্চতর শিক্ষা ও গবেষণার জন্য বিভিন্ন ফ্যাকাল্টি সম্প্রসারণ করতে ১০ কোটি টাকার একটি তহবিলের দাবি জানান।
অনুষ্ঠানে অন্যান্যের মধ্যে বক্তৃতা করেন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের মঞ্জুরি কমিশনের ভারপ্রাপ্ত চেয়ারম্যান ড. মোহাম্মদ ইউসুফ আলী মোল্লা, বাংলাদেশ মেডিকেল রিসার্স কাউন্সিলের চেয়ারম্যান এবং প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সাবেক স্বাস্থ্য ও সমাজকল্যাণ উপদেষ্টা সৈয়দ মোদাচ্ছের আলী, বিএসএমএমইউ'র প্রো-ভাইস চ্যান্সেলর (গবেষণা ও উন্নয়ন) প্রফেসর ড. শহীদুল্লাহ শিকদার ও বিএসএমএমইউ'র প্রো-ভিসি (প্রশাসন) ড. এম শরফুদ্দিন আহমেদ।
সূত্রঃ বাসস
 




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Subject: Re: {PFC-Friends} To go or not to go???????????
 
Please quit reading the book upside down !! 

BNP is not in the power for them to rule undemocratically !  In case you did not get the memo,  it has been the voteless BAKSALI  GOOM-KHUN  Awami dictator regime that has been sucking the blood of the country !!  


If you cannot read newspaper, go the the Shongshod where you can find the  154 voteless looters in drunk and intoxicated with Indian & RAB power !! That ought to give you some glimpse in the definition of 'undemocratic' rule without any mandate of the people. 

If that is not enough ask your uncle Ershad, how he had participated in the 'Democracy' when he was kidnapped in the gunpoint into the CMH !! 
  
If you still have some more itching,  go rub some oil into the the buttock of Nanok or Ajom who led the Burning alive criminal political culture starting from the days of double deecker bus burning in front of sheraton. 

The current AL is not a political party anymore..let alone a democratic one. It has become a fascist dictatorial criminal police state party and  produced some dictator's  bastards Chela in the way who cannot even spell Democracy let alone seeing understanding. BAKSAL & Democracy are anathema to each others. 

   
  

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:38 AM, 'bipul kamal' via PFC-Friends <pfc-friends@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Shakespeare's Hamlet drama opera cannot be compared for BNP Jamaat undemocratic rule. Few days ago they killed 257 men women and children burnt to death (2015 Jan to March) They faced their war against AL and against hard working innocent daily earners. Moreover against the country. 

Time to protect Bangladesh against anti liberation anti Bangladeshi forces as well as unconstitutional party BNP and Jamaat. 

This two party never believes in democracy nor law and order or any constitutional matter.

People of Bangladesh should STOP this 2 parties and separate them from those ill motive anti Bangladeshi forces hiding inside BNP Jamaat and purify this 2 parties and finally made them abide to our rule of law, our independence, our 17th April 1971 charter of independence as well as our constitution.

Or people of Bangladesh must STOP these ill forces from the national power.


Joy Bangla

Bipul Kamal 

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On Oct 26, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Rezaul Karim <rezaulkarim617@gmail.com> wrote:

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,....

-From Hamlet


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Jalal Uddin Khan <jukhan@gmail.com> wrote:

In the context of the unprecedented Awami hard and harsh treatment of the BNP, the latter (BNP) made a (right or wrong) decision not to go to the Awami convention on 22 October 2016. Like the hard and harsh Sheikh Hasina being not allowed to enter the BNP chief's office premises in Gulshan at the time of her deep mourning on the death of her son Koko (who was forced to be away from his mother for years by the Hasina regime), this time also the decision not to attend the Awami convention may have been politically wrong and incorrect but also right in terms of the dignity, prestige, and integrity of the BNP, harassed and insulted and humiliated by Sheikh Hasina on thousands of grounds through the years since 2009. However, the question is, why did some leaders, such as M H Alal, say a clear "yes" before a (right or wrong) but clear-cut decision had been taken by the party high command? Why was this internal anemic dysfunction and disunity? Doshey mili kori kaj hari jiti nahi laj. Ekotai bol.

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Re: [mukto-mona] 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election



Deeldar: "Straight speaking is good during the primaries but not as a nominee. The man broke the rule."
 
 
As a conventional political strategy, this notion may be right. Trump has exposed this age-old double-talk professional political strategy, and brought back straight-talk as his brand, which propelled him to where he is today. That brand is precious for him. 
 
Trump gained 10 points in a week in the national poll, taken before the latest news of the revival of old FBI investigation against Hillary Clinton. He is now only 2 points behind, which shows - he is winning with his straight-talk brand.
 
People are tired of double-talking professional politicians.
 
You may ask, why he is not 10 points ahead? This is where Media comes in. He is facing biased hostile establishment media, which is interested in their bottom line, and status quo is good for them. So, Trump is not their candidate. Naturally, they are much more interested in his negative than positive points. That's why - it has been very difficult for him to put his  brand messages to the ordinary people. 
 
If he alters his brand now, and starts to talk like professional politicians, he will fall back 10 points again in a week.
 
Jiten Roy 
 
Jiten Roy



From: "Shah Deeldar shahdeeldar@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2016 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

 
Duplicity is her only and best strategy! But left/moderates will swallow and go for her. Trump needs no enemies when republicans and women are abandoning him in a mass. Straight speaking is good during the primaries but not as a nominee. The man broke the rule. Only a miracle can save him from defeat. This will facilitate next Bush or Rubio to win in 2020?


On Saturday, October 29, 2016 9:51 AM, "Jiten Roy jnrsr53@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-clinton-proposing-rigging-palestine-election/

 2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

Unearthed tape: 'We should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win'
By Ken Kurson • 10/28/16 1:00pm
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<img class="size-large wp-image-860436" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635" alt="Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speak during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas &amp; Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. " width="635" height="385" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=635 635w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=1270 1270w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=300 300w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/gettyimages-615701930.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px" />
Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speak during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton was running for a shoo-in re-election as a U.S. senator. Her trip making the rounds of editorial boards brought her to Brooklyn to meet the editorial board of the Jewish Press.
The tape was never released and has only been heard by the small handful of Jewish Press staffers in the room. According to Chomsky, his old-school audiocassette is the only existent copy and no one has heard it since 2006, until today when he played it for the Observer.
The tape is 45 minutes and contains much that is no longer relevant, such as analysis of the re-election battle that Sen. Joe Lieberman was then facing in Connecticut. But a seemingly throwaway remark about elections in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority has taken on new relevance amid persistent accusations in the presidential campaign by Clinton's Republican opponent Donald Trump that the current election is "rigged."
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Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
"I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake," said Sen. Clinton. "And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win."
Chomsky recalls being taken aback that "anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections."
Some eyebrows were also raised when then-Senator Clinton appeared to make a questionable moral equivalency.
<img class="wp-image-860443 size-medium" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=250&#038;h=300" alt="Eli Chomsky participated in an interview with Hillary Clinton at the Jewish Press in 2006." width="250" height="300" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=250&amp;h=300 250w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/eli-chomsky.png?w=500&amp;h=600 500w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" />
Eli Chomsky, photographed today at the Observer offices, participated in an interview with Hillary Clinton at the Jewish Press in 2006. - Observer
Regarding capturing combatants in war—the June capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas militants who came across the Gaza border via an underground tunnel was very much front of mind—Clinton can be heard on the tape saying, "And then, when, you know, Hamas, you know, sent the terrorists, you know, through the tunnel into Israel that killed and captured, you know, kidnapped the young Israeli soldier, you know, there's a sense of like, one-upsmanship, and in these cultures of, you know, well, if they captured a soldier, we've got to capture a soldier."
Equating Hamas, which to this day remains on the State Department's official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, with the armed forces of a close American ally was not what many expected to hear in the Jewish Press editorial offices, which were then at Third Avenue and Third Street in Brooklyn. (The paper's office has since moved to the Boro Park section of Brooklyn.) The use of the phrase "these cultures" is also a bit of a head-scratcher.
According to Chomsky, Clinton was "gracious, personable and pleasant throughout" the interview, taking about an hour to speak to, in addition to himself, managing editor Jerry Greenwald, assistant to the publisher Naomi Klass Mauer, counsel Dennis Rapps and senior editor Jason Maoz.
Another part of the tape highlights something that was relatively uncontroversial at the time but has taken on new meaning in light of the current campaign—speaking to leaders with whom our country is not on the best terms. Clinton has presented a very tough front in discussing Russia, for example, accusing Trump of unseemly ardor for strongman Vladimir Putin and mocking his oft-stated prediction that as president he'd "get along" with Putin.
Chomsky is heard on the tape asking Clinton what now seems like a prescient question about Syria, given the disaster unfolding there and its looming threat to drag the U.S., Iran and Russia into confrontation.
"Do you think it's worth talking to Syria—both from the U.S. point [of view] and Israel's point [of view]?"
Clinton replied, "You know, I'm pretty much of the mind that I don't see what it hurts to talk to people. As long as you're not stupid and giving things away. I mean, we talked to the Soviet Union for 40 years. They invaded Hungary, they invaded Czechoslovakia, they persecuted the Jews, they invaded Afghanistan, they destabilized governments, they put missiles 90 miles from our shores, we never stopped talking to them," an answer that reflects her mastery of the facts but also reflects a willingness to talk to Russia that sounds more like Trump 2016 than Clinton 2016.
<img class="size-medium wp-image-860446" src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=153" alt="This is how news used to be collected." width="153" height="300" title="2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" srcset="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=153 153w, http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/hillary-tape.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=306 306w" sizes="(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px" />
This is how news used to be collected. - Observer
Shortly after, she said, "But if you say, 'they're evil, we're good, [and] we're never dealing with them,' I think you give up a lot of the tools that you need to have in order to defeat them…So I would like to talk to you [the enemy] because I want to know more about you. Because if I want to defeat you, I've got to know something more about you. I need different tools to use in my campaign against you. That's my take on it."
A final bit of interest to the current campaign involves an articulation of phrases that Trump has accused Clinton of being reluctant to use. Discussing the need for a response to terrorism, Clinton said, "I think you can make the case that whether you call it 'Islamic terrorism' or 'Islamo-fascism,' whatever the label is we're going to give to this phenomenon, it's a threat. It's a global threat. To Europe, to Israel, to the United States…Therefore we need a global response. It's a global threat and it needs a global response. That can be the, sort of, statement of principle…So I think sometimes having the global vision is a help as long as you realize that underneath that global vision there's a lot of variety and differentiation that has to go on."
It's not clear what she means by a global vision with variety and differentiation, but what's quite clear is that the then-senator, just five years after her state was the epicenter of the September 11 attacks, was comfortable deploying the phrase "Islamic terrorism" and the even more strident "Islamo-fascism," at least when meeting with the editorial board of a Jewish newspaper.
In an interview before the Observer heard the tape, Chomsky told the Observer that Clinton made some "odd and controversial comments" on the tape. The irony of a decade-old recording emerging to feature a candidate making comments that are suddenly relevant to voters today was not lost on Chomsky, who wrote the original story at the time. Oddly enough, that story, headlined "Hillary Clinton on Israel, Iraq and Terror," is no longer available on jewishpress.com and even a short summary published on the Free Republic site offers a broken link that can no longer surface the story.
"I went to my bosses at the time," Chomsky told the Observer. "The Jewish Press had this mindset that they would not want to say anything offensive about anybody—even a direct quote from anyone—in a position of influence because they might need them down the road. My bosses didn't think it was newsworthy at the time. I was convinced that it was and I held onto it all these years."
Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, publisher of Observer Media.
 






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