After Hillary's stellar help with Benghazi they now send her to Israel as crisis rages
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(@fretbunny) November 20, 2012Fresh off her tipsy jaunt to Australia and a swing through Cambodia, Thailand and “Myanmar” with President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit to the Middle East today “to consult on the situation in Gaza.” Let’s hope she left her bottle down under.
Breaking: SecState Hillary Clinton will arrive tonight in Israel for a surprise visit to try and promote Gaza cease fire—
Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 20, 2012
An Israeli official said a possible ground invasion has been put “on hold” as Clinton prepares to join ceasefire talks with leaders in Israel, the West Bank and Egypt.
Israel has agreed not to launch a ground operation for at least 24 hours, as Hillary Clinton heads for the region to help broker a ceasefire—
Henry D'Andrea (@TheHenry) November 20, 2012
Unsurprisingly, Obama will not be joining Clinton at her meetings with Netanyahu and Abbas.
Thousands of Marines & Hillary are headed to Israel. Hmmm. Obama will probably be on another vacation on talk show. MESS! Pray……..—
Debbie (@beachlvr21399) November 20, 2012
But hey, maybe the White House will grace us with another Historic™ photo of the president phoning it in. More on Clinton’s trip to the region:
#SecClinton to Ramallah, Jerusalem & Cairo in surprise visit. She'll talk Gaza invasion, Palestinian membership at UN, Israeli strikes—
margaret brennan (@margbrennan) November 20, 2012
#SecClinton to try to "reopen the path" to 2 state solution for Israelis & Palestinians. Talks dormant in past 4 yrs—
margaret brennan (@margbrennan) November 20, 2012
#SecClinton to commend Egypt's efforts to de-escalate the situation in #Gaza. US is hopeful that these efforts will be successful—
margaret brennan (@margbrennan) November 20, 2012
No worries, guys. Hillary’s got this covered!
"Oh goody, everything will be better now that Hillary is headed to Israel. She totally helped with Benghazi." – says no one.—
Whitney Neal (@WhitneyNeal) November 20, 2012
Makes sense to send Hillary to Israel. Obama still refuses to step foot in the country, or even recognize our closest alliance.—
JeffW (@jeff28w) November 20, 2012
Will Clinton continue to remain silent on Turkey’s claim that Israel is engaged in acts of “terrorism”?
Also headed to the region is U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is expected to arrive ahead of Clinton.
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon to arrive in Israel earlier than scheduled—
Yiddish News (@YiddishNews) November 20, 2012
