Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all” about Middle Eastern history or history in general.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” to discuss a play that the former Democratic presidential nominee produced, host Joe Scarborough asked Clinton to weigh in on “radicalism on college campuses,” and protesters “funded by Qatar” who are ripping the legacy of the Clintons and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
“Sort of radicalism that has mainstream students getting propaganda — whether it’s from their professors, or whether it’s from communist Chinese government through TikTok — calling the president of the United States ‘Genocide Joe,’ calling you and President Clinton ‘war criminals,’ actually stopping the naming of a building after Madeleine Albright because they claim — professors claim, some of the same professors that took part of the most radical elements of the protests over the past couple of weeks — called Madeleine Albright a ‘war criminal,’” Scarborough said to Clinton. “What do we do about it?”
“I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months now,” Clinton said. “And you're right: 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 then went on to criticize people who are unaware of efforts by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to negotiate a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
“An offer was made to the Palestinians for a state, on 96% of the existing territory occupied by the Palestinians, with 4% of Israel to be given, to reach 100% of the amount of territory that was hoped for,” Clinton said. “If [former Palestinian President] Yasser Arafat had accepted it, there would have been a Palestinian state now for about 24 years.”
