Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, none of them tried to allay Palestine’s misery. Hillary wouldn’t have either.
On December 14, 1998, we had a day off at school. As an eight-year-old child, I couldn’t be happier.
All the shops were closed and there were roadblocks everywhere. The streets were filled with Palestinian flags, and white and red striped flags I couldn’t recognise. I asked my father and he explained that those were American flags, and that Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, was going to visit Gaza City later that day.
Little did I know that I would be hearing Clinton’s name almost every day for the next 18 years, but it will not be on happy occasions.
The late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, had invited Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton to inaugurate the Gaza International Airport . Clinton’s helicopters landed on the airport’s runway in Rafah and then took off to Gaza City, where Clinton addressed the Palestinian National Council in what went down in history as the first visit ever by an American president to a “sovereign” Palestinian entity
Source: In Gaza, we aren’t mourning Clinton’s loss – Al Jazeera English
