Report: Clinton and the "Israeli" Fish

Local Editor, 28-02-2010

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made it her personal mission to put fish on every "Israeli" family's table on Passover.

May every Palestinian die starving in Gaza. No problem there for the US official.

But Clinton's kind loving heard finds it difficult to swallow the fact that there may be a single "Israeli" family at Passover without gefilte fish on the table.

The prospect of a Passover Seder without gefilte fish is like an Easter dinner without a baked ham, unthinkable to Hillary Clinton, in particular.

The US State Department, Hillary Clinton in person, is leading the struggle to guarantee that gefilte fish will be on every Jewish table for the festive season....

But what about the starving Palestinians that have NO FOOD on their tables? What about the Palestinians that do not even have tables to sit at in the tents they are forced to be living in because of illegal evictions from their homes?

Several weeks before Pessah, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would work to resolve a trade dispute preventing a huge shipment of gefilte fish bound for the Zionist entity that is stuck at a processing facility in Illinois.

Fresh and processed foods are subject to tariffs under the trade agreement between the US and "Israel".

Illinois Rep. Don Manzullo, a Republican, asked Clinton to intervene on behalf of a gefilte fish factory in his district, Thomson, Illinois' Schafer Fishery.

Mansullo told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday that he said "Israel" had imposed a 120-percent tax on nine containers of Asian carp that had been made into gefilte fish patties.

"If there's anything you can do to get the gefilte fish to Passover...," he said.

Clinton said she was up to a job that "sounds to me like one of those issues that should rise to the highest levels of our government," drawing laughs.

"If not, we're going to have to figure out what to do with nine containers of it," she said, prompting Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House committee, to quip that perhaps the fish would end up at the next state dinner.

Jonathan Peled, a spokesman for the "Israeli" Embassy in Washington, said "Israel" is "obviously looking into the request by Congressman Manzullo and are trying to see whether something can be done."

"I don't think there's a lack of gefilte fish either in "Israel" or in the United States regarding Pessah," Peled said. Nonetheless, he said, "we're seriously looking at this request by a member of Congress."

"Congressman, I will take that mission on," Clinton said.

Strange, but sadly true.