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Showing Original Post only (View all)Kerry gives Netanyahu a well-deserved diplomatic slap in the face [View all]
From The Times of Israel:
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his old friend John Kerry in Jerusalem that he was concerned about the peace process, and asked the visiting US secretary of state to steer [the Palestinians] back to a place where we could achieve the historical peace that we seek. John Kerry quickly responded by lauding both sides good faith, and said he was very confident the negotiations would succeed.
But on Thursday, he loosened the diplomatic straitjacket, and we all got a much better look at what John Kerry really thinks about progress and blame in the new peace effort he worked so strenuously to revive a little over three months ago. He turned directly to the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and showed them rather more of his true colors. To the prime minister, it is safe to assume, they did not look particularly blue-and-white.
For the first time since he managed to restart the talks in July, Kerry dropped his statesman-like public impartiality, and clearly spoke from the heart and what emerged were a series of accusations that amounted to a forceful slap in the face for Netanyahu. It was a rhetorical onslaught that the prime minister cannot have expected and one he will not quickly forget.
In an extremely unusual joint interview with Israels Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, a very frustrated Kerry basically blamed the Israeli government for stealing the Palestinians land and the Israeli public for living in bubble that prevents them from caring much about it. If that wasnt enough, he railed against the untenability of the Israel Defense Forces staying perpetually in the West Bank. In warning that a violent Palestinian leadership might supplant Mahmoud Abbas if there was not sufficient progress at the peace table, he appeared to come perilously close to empathizing with potential Palestinian aggression against Israel.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/frustrated-kerrys-peace-critique-a-heavy-slap-in-netanyahus-face/
But on Thursday, he loosened the diplomatic straitjacket, and we all got a much better look at what John Kerry really thinks about progress and blame in the new peace effort he worked so strenuously to revive a little over three months ago. He turned directly to the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and showed them rather more of his true colors. To the prime minister, it is safe to assume, they did not look particularly blue-and-white.
For the first time since he managed to restart the talks in July, Kerry dropped his statesman-like public impartiality, and clearly spoke from the heart and what emerged were a series of accusations that amounted to a forceful slap in the face for Netanyahu. It was a rhetorical onslaught that the prime minister cannot have expected and one he will not quickly forget.
In an extremely unusual joint interview with Israels Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, a very frustrated Kerry basically blamed the Israeli government for stealing the Palestinians land and the Israeli public for living in bubble that prevents them from caring much about it. If that wasnt enough, he railed against the untenability of the Israel Defense Forces staying perpetually in the West Bank. In warning that a violent Palestinian leadership might supplant Mahmoud Abbas if there was not sufficient progress at the peace table, he appeared to come perilously close to empathizing with potential Palestinian aggression against Israel.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/frustrated-kerrys-peace-critique-a-heavy-slap-in-netanyahus-face/
Hey, Bibes, when you go into the bloody OVAL OFFICE and lecture the President of the United States, do not bitch and whine when it comes back to bite you in the arse, you racist thug!
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Kerry gives Netanyahu a well-deserved diplomatic slap in the face [View all]
Zeke L Brimstone
Nov 2013
OP
American DU-ers would be banned for supporting their own Secretary of State?
LeftishBrit
Nov 2013
#55
If ya wanna know how I feel on it, see my interview with UK's Harry Fear
The Straight Story
Nov 2013
#104
This has been Kerry's position for years. Corpmedia has NEVER been honest in its depiction
blm
Nov 2013
#14
Israel is better than Bibi. They can't throw him out fast enough for the rest of the world.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2013
#7
To be clear, most settlers in the West Bank are foreigners paid to move there...
Blue State Bandit
Nov 2013
#27
Challenge accepted. Taking a few more than 25, because I sense an additude...
Blue State Bandit
Nov 2013
#112
Yes. Kerry is not quoted as having addressed this key issue posed by the Palestinians' stance:
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#97
Did you reply in the wrong place? That doesn't seem to relate to what I posted...
Violet_Crumble
Nov 2013
#103
It's not 4:15, I didn't alert, and I don't want to see Israel destroyed...
Violet_Crumble
Nov 2013
#110
We don't know what diplomats say when they close the doors and talk amongst themselves.
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#126
Netanyahu is Israel's george w. bush. Even many Jewish DUers don't like him and his
loudsue
Nov 2013
#8
"I, for one, cheer for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians"
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#23
Two attitudes must change. Israel must agree to sit down with Palestinians as equals but
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#98
There are still people holding onto deeds and keys out of sentiment....
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#100
They are no different from the many Jews who held keys and rights to properties all over Europe.
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#107
The way I see it the US is blindly supporting a right wing theocracy that's a lousy neighbor.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#123
Security. The Palestinians and Israelis might not be able to live in what is now Israel
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#109
Right of Return means returning to the West Bank and Gaza as well as Israel...
Violet_Crumble
Nov 2013
#111
Contrary to popular belief, the white man didn't win California in a war and,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#124
It is certainly contingent on Israel's behaviour; whether what we would call their GOOD behaviour is
LeftishBrit
Nov 2013
#56
Funny how many Liberals blindly support the right wing government in Israel.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#21
I think Israel is recognized as a nation. Just not a Jewish one, just for Jews.
vaberella
Nov 2013
#43
Here is interesting information about what happened in the Truman White House with regard
JDPriestly
Nov 2013
#102
The SCAM has been the good Christians (USA! USA! USA!) bringing peace to the region.
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2013
#50
Yes he is a hard liner on foreign affairs. But on domestic issues he supports
totodeinhere
Nov 2013
#122
You did not make it obvious that the term "well deserved" was your own words and not the
totodeinhere
Nov 2013
#47
today 75 years ago began thief of the Jewish peoples home and property
riverbendviewgal
Nov 2013
#76
He is the Israeli Neo-Con -- a Judeo-Con, if you will (rim shot, please.)
King_Klonopin
Nov 2013
#91