Israel’s new lawyer: Hillary Clinton

She sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Bibi’s eyes, which could be the reason she gets so much wrong.

By Peter Beinart | Aug. 11, 2014 | http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.610007

Who’s the Israeli government’s best spokesperson? Ron Dermer? Michael Oren? Bibi himself? Nope. It’s Hillary Clinton. In her interview on Sunday with Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton offered the most articulate, sophisticated, passionate defense of Netanyahu’s conduct I’ve heard from a government official on either side of the Atlantic. Unfortunately, important chunks of it aren’t true. Let’s take her claims in turn. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.610007