Thursday January 13th 2011 Travel Schedule: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
9:30 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with civil society leaders, in Doha, Qatar.
10:00 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton participates in the opening session of the Seventh Forum for the Future, in Doha, Qatar.
10:45 a.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton delivers remarks at the Forum for the Future: Partnership Dialogue Panel, in Doha, Qatar.
12:40 p.m. LOCAL Secretary Clinton meets with the staff and families of Embassy Doha, in Doha, Qatar.
PM Secretary Clinton returns from foreign travel.
And just a head’s up: Tomorrow she is reportedly giving a big speech on US-China relations.
Some photos from her day today:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks during a Civil Society breakfast in Doha, January 13, 2011.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she talks during the Forum for the Future conference in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Jan.13, 2011.
ecretary of State Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Feltman Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, arrive to attend the Forum for the Future conference in Doha, January 13, 2011.
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Thanks for the heads up about the China speech tomorrow. Isn’t that Communist party leader Hu Jintao coming for a state visit soon?
When’s Fidel Castro coming for a state visit?
She’s talking a lot about peaceful civil society and the importance of Arab states not viewing it as a threat. Does the same go for this:
That video is pretty telling. Amnesty has named him a prisoner of conscience at the State Dept. clearly wants to pretend the man known as the Palestinian Gandhi doesn’t exist. Obama specifically called on Palestinians to renounce violence in his Cairo speech and rightly so. But then when they do and get tossed in jail for speaking out against the occupation- peacefully- we have a moral obligation to raise the issue.
On another note: Jennifer Rubin takes a whack at Hillary. AGAIN.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/morning_bits_36.html#more
Secy Clinton lashed out at Arab leaders over their repression of civil society and I agree with her. What I don’t agree with is her total silence over the repression of Palestinians- their imprisonment, abuse, harrasment and even murder. I wish she would be a tad more even-handed.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/14/1978722/a-frustrated-clinton-berates-arab.html
The idea that we can’t change Israel’s behavior is sort of a joke. They are our client state. We are just unwilling to do what it would take to get them to stop violating international law.
Some are saying that the Israeli right is trying to provoke a 3rd intifada so they squash the Palestinians in Gaza like bugs. I happen to agree with that assessment.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/you-cant-see-freedom-from-any-window.html#more-33541
I don’t expect any of the Israel apologists here to respond to this. It’s easier to just ignore stuff like this and go read the NYT and listen to Wolf Blitzer.