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Israel is not the only country in the Middle East for which "the Palestinian issue" has been a problem, but that's a sliver of history you won't hear repeated in Arab circles. She was particularly moving about the Palestinians who were "kicked out of the homes" in which their families had lived for "generations." Given this ostentatious concern for hu man suffering, you might have thought s he would have dilated on (or at least m entioned) the events of September 1970-"Black September"-in which her father-in-law King Hussein of Jordan violently put down the Palestinian uprising in his country, killing thousands and driving thousands more into exile in Lebanon. Then she went on to speak of "the Occupa tion"-i.e., the state of Israel-and provided the audience with many touching descriptions of Palestinian suffering. 2009: "First, she declared the absurdity of assigning blame when discussing "the Palestinian issue": that got many people on her side. (from Centrists), Colin Kaepernick, Jill Soloway, Mark Dayton, Black Lives Matter, Nation of Islam, Nicolas Maduro, Ken Burns, Richard Fowler, David Brock, Margaret Sanger, CNN, Dana Milbank, Katie Couric,, Bill Clinton, American Bar Assn., Anjem Choudary, ISIS, Pope Bergoglio, Reuters, Mark MacKinnon, Noam Chomsky, Ron Fournier, Dilma Rousseff, Angela Corey, Hatem Bazian, Students for Justice for Palestine, Sally K ohn, George Soros. Tamika Cross, Hillary Clinton, Tyler O'Neil, Smithsonian Institution, Planned Parenthood, John Ziegler, Washington Post (from Centrists), United Nations, Dario Fo (dead, thank Heaven!), Moody's Investors Service, Warren Buffety, John Podesta, Al Gore, Linda Stasi, Juan Williams, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Glenn Beck, Megan Rapinoe, Jay Faison, Jimmy Kimmel, Huma Abedin, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Facebook, Jordan Peele James Pethokoukis (from Centrists), Northwestern Univ, Morton Sha piro, Alicia Machado, CNN, Shimon Peres, Lester Holt, David Ignatius, DePaul Univ.