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Out of Touch Hillary Clinton Insults Young Voters
Hillary Clinton received backlash for her disparaging remarks against student demonstrators, asserting that young individuals possess limited knowledge regarding the Middle East.
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May 16, 2024Last week Hillary Clinton appeared on and expressed her opinions regarding the student protests happening around the country in response to the United States’ backing Israel, even after Israel has committed mass war crimes in the Gaza conflict.She that young individuals lack knowledge about Middle Eastern history and “many areas of the world [history], including in our own country.”“I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months now,” Clinton said. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country.”Clinton continued by asserting that the Palestinians would have an independent state if Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestinian Authority, had agreed to a proposal put forth by former President Bill Clinton.