After Hillary Clinton dismissed young people’s views on Israel and Gaza during an interview on Thursday, a prominent left-wing journalist has called her ’embittered.’
Writing on X.com, formerly known as Twitter, Glenn Greenwald said that Clinton speaks about the ignorance of younger Americans because she failed to gain their support in her two presidential bids.
‘One major reason Hillary Clinton is spending her twilight years ranting and raving about the ignorance of “young people” is it was young people who largely supported Obama over her in their hateful 2008 fight, then Bernie in 2016,’ he wrote.
Greenwald, who previously worked as a journalist for The Guardian, where he helped break Edward Snowden’s story, further condemned Clinton.
‘They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or, frankly about history in many areas of the world, including in our own country,’ Hillary Clinton said of young people in a recent interview
Glenn Greenwald said that Clinton bears a grudge against young people because they didn’t support her in her two campaigns
‘Just an embittered, miserable person,’ he wrote.
Greenwald’s comments were in reference to the former secretary of state’s recent interview on MSNBC, during which she suggested that young Americans are largely ignorant.
‘I have had many conversations with a lot of young people over the last many months now,’ the former presidential candidate said with a slight smile.
‘They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or, frankly about history in many areas of the world, including in our own country.
Clinton proceeded to talk about the foreign policy efforts undertaken by her husband in the region.
She cited an offer Bill Clinton made to then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat when he was trying to broker a settlement between Palestine and Israel.
‘They don’t know that…an offer was made to the Palestinians for a state on 96 percent of the existing territory occupied by the Palestinians…with 4 percent of Israel to be given to reach 100 percent of the amount of territory that was hoped for.’
In 2008, Hillary lost the Democratic nomination to Obama, who would go on to be president
Clinton, who has said that her opinions on students are based on several conversations with young people during the past few months, said:
‘This offer was made and if Yasser Arafat had accepted it, there would have been a Palestinian State now for about 24 years.’
In 2000, President Clinton sat down with Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David, where he tried to negotiate a peace deal between the two parties.
The peace proved elusive and failed to materialize. In the summit’s aftermath, both Israel and Palestine sought to cast the blame on each other.
Later that year, the Second Intifada of Palestinian resistance was announced, ushering in an epoch of greater violence in the region, which lasted until 2005
After the situation in Gaza deteriorated following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, Hillary Clinton has found herself increasingly at odds with young people.
Obama’s campaign was able to draw on the energetic support of young Americans
In 2016, Bernie Sanders became an unlikely star for young Americans, while Hillary struggled to generate support among that demographic
Clinton is a professor of international and public affairs at Colombia University, where there have been impassioned and protracted protests against Israel’s treatment of Gaza’s civilian population.
In February, Clinton was shouted down by pro-Palestinian protestors during a lecture.
‘Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal!’ an angry protestor yelled as she walked onto a stage to address the students.
‘The people of Libya, the people of Iraq, the people of Syria, the people of Palestine as well as the people of America will never forgive you.’