After Hillary Clinton dismissed young people’s views on Israel and Gaza during an interview Thursday, a prominent left-wing journalist called her “bitter.”
On X.com, formerly known as Twitter, Glenn Greenwald said Clinton speaks to the ignorance of younger Americans because she failed to win their support in both of her presidential bids.
“One of the main reasons Hillary Clinton is spending her final years ranting and raving about the ignorance of ‘young people’ is that it was young people who largely supported Obama over her in their hateful 2008 fight.” , and then to Bernie in 2016,” he wrote.
Greenwald, who previously worked as a journalist for The Guardian, where he helped break the Edward Snowden story, further condemned Clinton.
“They don’t know much about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, the history of many areas of the world, including our own country,” Hillary Clinton said of young people in a recent interview.
Glenn Greenwald said Clinton holds a grudge against young people because they didn’t support her in both of her campaigns.
“Just a bitter, 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’ve had a lot of conversations with a lot of young people over the last few months,” the former presidential candidate said with a slight smile.
‘They don’t know much about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, the history of many areas of the world, including our own country.
Clinton proceeded to speak about her husband’s foreign policy efforts in the region.
He cited an offer Bill Clinton made to then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat when he was trying to negotiate an agreement 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… and 4 percent of Israel would be handed over to reach 100 percent of the amount of territory that was expected.”
In 2008, Hillary lost the Democratic nomination to Obama, who would become president.
Clinton, who has said her views on students are based on several conversations with young people over the past few months, said:
“This offer was made and if Yasser Arafat had accepted it, there would have been a Palestinian state for about 24 years.”
In 2000, President Clinton sat with Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David, where he attempted to negotiate a peace agreement between the two sides.
Peace proved elusive and failed to materialize. After the summit, both Israel and Palestine tried to blame each other.
Later that year, the Second Intifada of Palestinian resistance was announced, marking the beginning of an era of increased 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 could count 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 public and international affairs at Colombia University, where there have been passionate and prolonged protests against Israel’s treatment of Gaza’s civilian population.
In February, Clinton was loudly booed by pro-Palestinian protesters during a conference.
‘Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, you are a war criminal!’ one angry protester shouted as she walked onto a stage to address students.
“The people of Libya, the people of Iraq, the people of Syria, the people of Palestine and the people of the United States will never forgive them.”