Hillary Clinton Endorses Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza

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45. I just read the entire statement and it isn't an endorsement.

Over and over in this op-ed Clinton states that she disagrees with most of the plan but sees absolutely no alternative at this point.

She urges the world to do something to stop the suffering and death, rather than waiting for a better plan (which is very unlikely to emerge anytime soon with Trump in the White House.)

Describing this as an endorsement makes it sound like she thinks it's a good plan. She says over and over that she does not.

I think that this misunderstanding of Clinton's message is similar to the misunderstandings she accrued during her runs for the presidency. Clinton focuses on what is possible to do now in these constrained moments. She doesn't make big promises. She doesn't throw lofty ideals down on the table and declaim her eternal constancy to those ideals alone.

Clinton is unwilling to make promises she isn't certain she can keep. She is unwilling to allow deaths and suffering to continue if there is any possible way forward, even if it is a very flawed way.

Clinton sees a humanitarian disaster in the Middle East and looks for the only possible way to stop the killings soon. Even though that plan is greatly flawed, she thinks it's the only way forward.

Representing this op-ed as an endorsement is a misrepresentation and I believe a fundamental misunderstanding of who Hillary Clinton is. She is not a natural politician. She doesn't tell people what they want to hear. Her archetype is that of the elder mother who is telling the family what they need to do in order to survive, even though they and she hate having to do it.

Jmo