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...Jimmy Carter’s Camp David Accords with Egypt and Bill Clinton’s Oslo Accords with the Palestinian Authority both secured Nobel Peace Prizes, although neither resolved the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the former US presidents, sought to bolster Democratic support for Joe Biden on his handling of Israel’s war in Gaza — an area of angst and division within the party — ahead...
...Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton defended Joe Biden on his handling of Israel’s war in Gaza at last night’s fundraiser that was peppered with protests....
...Almost 30 years later, Netanyahu is once again leader of Israel — and Joe Biden must be tempted to echo Clinton’s words....
...“In 2024, ‘hands off our bodies’ should be as prevalent in Joe Biden’s mind as “it’s the economy, stupid” was for Bill Clinton in 1992,” I write....
...He also attacked Bush Sr’s threat to withdraw US loan guarantees if Israel went ahead with settlements in the occupied territories....
...Other Israeli leaders have clashed with the White House before: Ronald Reagan accused Menachem Begin of a “holocaust” after Israel bombed Beirut in August 1982; George Bush Sr had to withhold $10bn in loan...
...They have chanted those words and carried them aloft on placards at protests since October 7, when Hamas’s vicious attack on southern Israel provoked Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza....
...The friction between them was capped by Obama’s preference for Hillary Clinton over Biden in 2016 in spite of the fact that he had given eight years of loyal service....
...Biden’s model on Israel isn’t his former boss, Barack Obama, but former president Bill Clinton....
...At the end of March, Biden brought in more than $25mn at a fundraiser featuring former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton....
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...They are there in the 2000 Clinton compromise or, better, in the 2002 “Arab Peace Initiative” and so many similar documents: a truly sovereign Palestinian state, security arrangements, normalisation by all...
...Abortion could be Trump’s Waterloo: In 1992 “it’s the economy, stupid” was Bill Clinton’s rallying call to voters....
...Clinton....
...Clinton championed the establishment line that unconditional support for Israel would help to eventually secure a Palestinian state....
...Israel’s announced war aim of eliminating Hamas is ambiguous and, in the end, may not be achievable. Israel alone cannot eliminate Hamas....
...In the tight contest against Hillary Clinton in 2016, tabloid news stories about other infidelities might have sunk Trump, Colangelo argued, saying: “We’ll never know.” Trump looked stoic....
...Biden has long been a staunch supporter of Israel....
...He is now secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council Almost 30 years ago, as a young Norwegian diplomat, I sat on the lawn of the White House and watched US president Bill Clinton host two sworn...
...Earlier this week, the president said he was hopeful about an Israel-Hamas ceasefire....
...The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations all tried to make Beijing a “responsible stakeholder”....
...It was a large number, considering Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016 by fewer than 11,000 votes....
...Joe Biden has run the most radical Democratic administration since Lyndon Johnson’s, with a mandate more like Bill Clinton’s....
...In late 2000 Bill Clinton engaged in an energetic set of negotiations to rescue the process. When these collapsed they were followed by the bombs and crackdowns of the second intifada....
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