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What Kerry got wrong in his Israel speech
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 12/28/16 | Michael Rubin

Posted on 12/28/2016 9:52:31 AM PST by ColdOne

Secretary of State John Kerry laid out his vision of a Middle East peace deal on Wednesday. Rather than achieve peace between Israel and Palestinians, however, Kerry will be remembered for catalyzing terrorism and setting back the cause of peace for decades, if not permanently. The problems are not only ego and pique, the twisted personal motivations of Kerry and President Obama, but also the false conventional wisdom upon which Kerry and his aides operate.

Here is what they get wrong:

Intransigence: Who is holding up peace? After long and careful negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority brokered by the United States and the broader international community, Israeli leaders offered their Palestinian counterparts peace deals in 2000 and 2008. Both the late Palestinian chairman Yasser Arafat and his successor Mahmoud Abbas rejected the offers and walked away, without offering a counter proposal. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze settlement construction upon Obama's request, Abbas again refused for nine months to even talk to the Israelis.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kerryunspeech; secstatekerryspeech
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I used to think obama would order our troops to attack Israel....it seems he did need to use them. Rumor is Jan 15th will be full on attack with UN vote.
1 posted on 12/28/2016 9:52:31 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

What he got wrong in his speech was he didn’t end it fifty minutes earlier than he did!


2 posted on 12/28/2016 9:54:34 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Sea levels are rising- from liberal tears.)
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To: ColdOne

“Final Status Agreement” sounds too much like “The Final Solution”.


3 posted on 12/28/2016 9:55:39 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: ColdOne

What is holding up peace? THE MUZZIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY DO NOT WANT PEACE


4 posted on 12/28/2016 9:55:59 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: ColdOne

God I hope not


5 posted on 12/28/2016 9:56:53 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ColdOne

Ummmmmmmm ... everything?


6 posted on 12/28/2016 9:58:06 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Mr. K

The want Israel annihilated then the muzzies come after the US. Obama and Kerry need to be jailed. Put them in Guantanamo!


7 posted on 12/28/2016 10:00:09 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: ColdOne

The so-called Palestinians do not want peace with Israel, they want Israel wiped out.
There will never be peace because the muslims want it all.


8 posted on 12/28/2016 10:00:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: SERKIT

This is the end of the Peace Process and the end game of Yasser Arafat’s Phased Plan, which has always been the plan for the PLO

The peace process was nothing more than charade.


9 posted on 12/28/2016 10:03:02 AM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ......)
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To: ColdOne

The bottom line: If the arabs disarmed tomorrow, there would be peace. If the Israelis disarmed tomorrow, they would be invaded and destroyed.

The Arabs are all secular or Islamic dictatorships. They need an external enemy to justify the repressive nature of their regimes.

Last, do they think nobody saw what happened in the Gaza Strip when it was given to the Palestinians? The Jews were removed and they palis were given a turn key city in perfect shape. They immediately turned it into a rocket firing terror base.


10 posted on 12/28/2016 10:03:35 AM PST by DesertRhino
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To: SERKIT
Chamberlain, Kerry, "Peace in our time."

Right. /sarc

11 posted on 12/28/2016 10:20:14 AM PST by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: ColdOne

Obama sends out the fools like Kerry and Samantha Power do his bidding while he sits back and plays with himself


12 posted on 12/28/2016 10:25:48 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: ColdOne

What he got wrong was even making the speech.

Actually, what he REALLY got wrong was getting up this morning with the idea that he really matters any more.


13 posted on 12/28/2016 10:34:43 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ColdOne

All this fits perfectly with End Time prophesy.


14 posted on 12/28/2016 10:35:05 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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“What Kerry got wrong in his Israel speech”

Just about everything.

He starts with the wrong premise (that a two-state solution is possible) and descends from there. “Palestinian” is NOT a nationality, nor does it describe a cultural or ethnic cohesion. These are people who were castoffs from the nation of their origin, driven from the land of their forefathers as a form of generational exile, and for the most part, they subscribe to some kind of banditry, and have no concept of national identity.

They are not even very good Muslims.


15 posted on 12/28/2016 10:38:20 AM PST by alloysteel (Happy New Year! 2017 is shaping up to be a VERY good year.)
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16 posted on 12/28/2016 10:40:28 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: ColdOne

What did that mashed faced goon get wrong? How about “kill all the Jews and wipe Israel off the map” for starters.


17 posted on 12/28/2016 10:51:52 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: ColdOne
It's John Kerry - I have to assume he got pretty much everything wrong - possibly up to and including including the date, time and location of his speech.
18 posted on 12/28/2016 11:13:46 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: ColdOne

The first thing Kerry got wrong is opening his mouth to speak in the first place.


19 posted on 12/28/2016 11:41:49 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: DesertRhino

I suspect the reason Sharon withdrew from Gaza was to show the world that the two state solution was delusional, that the Arab who call themselves Palestinians can’t govern them selves in any civilized manner.

He was right about the Arabs. His mistake was thinking the world gives a damn. The world shares the delusion that the two state solution would work, or they want it to result in the annihilation of the Jews.


20 posted on 12/28/2016 11:56:56 AM PST by Daveinyork
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