IQNA – A Muslim rights advocacy group in the United States has slammed former president Bill Clinton for his attempt to justify the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli forces.
“Bill Clinton’s callous and dishonest attempt to justify the Israeli government’s attacks on civilians in Gaza was as insulting as it was Islamophobic," said Robert S. McCaw, Director of Government Affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"It is completely unacceptable to dismissively reference Islam and falsely claim that every Palestinian man, woman and child killed by Israel was a human shield." he added in a Thursday statement, as reported by the group's website.
"Even President Biden admitted months ago that the Israeli government has engaged in indiscriminate bombing in Gaza," he noted, adding, "Prominent leaders like Bill Clinton should be upholding Palestinian human rights, not rationalizing war crimes against Palestinian civilians."
While in Michigan, Clinton criticized Palestinian and Arab-Americans who oppose the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which has resulted in the massacre of at least 43,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and has rendered much of Gaza uninhabitable.
In a speech, Clinton argued that the Israeli regime was justified in not keeping “score” of civilian casualty counts in Gaza due to Hamas’ October 7th attack.
He also claimed civilians have been killed because they were used as human shields, despite the fact that the Israeli government has engaged in what even President Biden admitted was “indiscriminate” bombing, destroying mosques, churches, schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.
Clinton further justified the Biden administration’s support for the Israeli regime's actions by claiming that Israelis had lived near Gaza since “before [Islam] existed,” citing King David and referring to the Holy Land as “Judea and Samaria,” a term used by far-right Israelis who oppose a Palestinian state.
Clinton stated that President Biden was fulfilling his “duty” to the occupying regime by providing unconditional military support.
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