Defending the Indefensible

Abe Greenwald on Hillary's speech yesterday:

I fail to see anything encouraging in Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about Arab-Israeli peace. She’s peddling a line identical to, if not worse than, the one we hear from President Obama.

She starts out by defending the indefensible settlement red herring, goes on to praise the Palestinians for improving security conditions, and calls on “all sides” to act against cultures of hate and intolerance. Did someone on her staff go through the speech beforehand and make sure to take out anything that referenced the world as it really is?

What about the perpetual reality that is Palestinian terrorism? The continued rocket attacks? The non-stop campaign of dehumanizing propaganda? The overarching fact that Palestinian leadership wants neither peace nor two states?