Kerry: I won't be intimidated by Israeli attacks against me [View all]
Source: Haaretz
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responded decisively on Wednesday to dissmissive comments made by top Israeli officials regarding his attempts to push forward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
"I'm not going to be intimidated and back down," the U.S. senator in an interview to CNN. "I’ve been attacked before by people using real bullets, not words... No one should distort what we are saying because they are opposed to the peace process."
Kerry was responding to a barrage of attacks issued by top Israeli officials - among them Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Economy minister Naftali Bennett, who have in recent days painted his Mideast mission as messianic and obsessive.
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