Hillary Clinton, former presidential candidate and secretary of state, met with a delegation of 16 children and siblings of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas terrorists.
She shared advice to the families in New York on Wednesday, urging them to continue to put pressure on the Israeli government to help get the hostages.
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The former first lady reportedly took the opportunity to make a slight dig at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that he would not be making the hostages his priority but instead would be focused on “politics and his personal survival.”
“As long as the hostages are not the main and primary target for Israel, then everything that I or President Biden say or do is of little value,” Clinton said, according to sources at the meeting.
Clinton shared that she was aware of a “Christmas deal” that was working on a release of more hostages but that the details were still to be resolved among the Israeli government and Hamas.
The meeting had been organized by a group of Israeli graduate students at Columbia University, where Clinton is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Journalist Caroline Glick called Clinton a “disgraceful woman” for making these comments.
“Hillary Clinton used a meeting with the families of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists to attack Prime Minister @netanyahu,” Glick said on social media on Thursday.
She added, “What a revolting, disgusting, low down, dirty thing to do. What a disgraceful woman.”
Hillary Clinton used a meeting with the families of hostages being held by Hamas terrorists to attack Prime Minister @netanyahu.
What a revolting, disgusting, low down, dirty thing to do.
What a disgraceful woman.— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) December 21, 2023
The Democratic Party has had a complicated relationship with Netanyahu. Clinton’s husband openly supported Netanyahu’s opponent, Ehud Barak, in the 1999 Israel general elections.
President Joe Biden recently used the White House’s Hanukkah reception on Dec. 11 to slam the Israeli prime minister.
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Biden said at the event that he has known Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for 51 years.
Biden said he once wrote a message on the top of a photo of the two on Netanyahu’s desk that said, “‘Bibi, I love you, but I don’t agree with a damn thing you have to say’ — it’s about the same today.”
