The Israeli Castration Complex: From the 1972 Munich Massacre to Anne-Marie Slaughter's 'Crazy Idea'

An email from the cache of correspondence Hillary Clinton kept on her private server during her tenure as Secretary of State shows that former aide Anne-Marie Slaughter proposed raising private funds for a Palestinian state. It “might be a crazy idea,” wrote Slaughter, director of the State Department’s policy planning office from 2009-2011, who suggested that a “pledge for Palestine” fundraising drive targeting billionaires “would reflect a strong vote of confidence in the building of a Palestinian state.” Also, wrote Slaughter, it “could significantly bolster [Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud] Abbas in a way that could help him stay in the talks.” Maybe Warren Buffett would lend his name to the project, wrote Slaughter, or NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “together with a very wealthy Muslim.” It would also, she wrote, have a “shaming effect” on Israel.

The email provides a peculiar view into ClintonWorld, where the hard work of policy is greased by the kind of really rich people whose money really moves the world. And since billionaires—in the thinking of Clinton apparatchiks like Slaughter—are the arbiters of cosmic morality, how better to embarrass a U.S. ally?

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