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State Department Hits Back at Israeli Criticism Over Kerry
Arutz Sheva ^ | 30/7/14

Posted on 07/30/2014 3:07:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

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Israeli attacks against US Secretary of State John Kerry accusing him being of a supporter of Hamas are "offensive and absurd," a senior US diplomat said Wednesday.

In a sharp exchange with reporters, deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf hit out against a torrent of abuse from "respected voices in Israel talking about the secretary of state, claiming that he supports Hamas, which is offensive and absurd."

The United States had been given Israel "a level of support which has been quite frankly unprecedented in our history, even when we stood alone," she added.

Kerry has been the subject of ridicule in the Israeli press after his attempts to broker a ceasefire - and US President Barack Obama's heavy pressure on Israel to concede to Hamas's unprecedented demands - deeply offended Israelis living under the constant threat of rocket fire from Hamas.

The secretary of state has been described in the press as a "bull in a china shop," and an "amateur who thinks he can solve the world's problems with his presence alone."

The most outrageous accusations, however, have been levied by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) - the terror organization behind the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah - which declared Wednesday that Kerry's snubbing Egypt in recent talks in Paris constitutes open US support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, ....

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: criticism; kerry; lurch; statedepartment
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To: Eleutheria5

...”just like he failed to become President. It’s what he does by accident while trying to do something else”.....

ROTFLOL.....that’s so right!


21 posted on 07/30/2014 3:44:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: Eleutheria5

Harf! Harf! Harf! Obama’s dog is out again.


22 posted on 07/30/2014 3:51:06 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Marie Harf, Nazi sympathizer.

Gaza is 141 square miles.

Saudi Arabia is 756,981 square miles.

The moslem Fiends need to go or be exterminated.


23 posted on 07/30/2014 3:55:12 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: All

Lurch can’t help that he’s a pompous windbag...


24 posted on 07/30/2014 3:58:25 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: jacknhoo

The “Daily Slave” is a virulently anti-semitic website, racist too.

Today’s headline:

AMERICA APPROVES GIVING ISRAEL MORE WEAPONS SO EVIL JEWS CAN KILL MORE PALESTINIANS


25 posted on 07/30/2014 4:04:18 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Eleutheria5

At that level, when you have to defend your guy you have already lost.


26 posted on 07/30/2014 4:13:25 PM PDT by Iron Munro (IRONY)
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To: caww

I’ve been following this for the last couple of weeks. It’s looking very much like an orchestrated effort to construct an excuse for their intended knifing of Israel in the back. That little “we’ve been supporting them more than anyone ever has” line has all the earmarks of a try-out talking point.


27 posted on 07/30/2014 4:19:26 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Sam Gamgee
Oh you mean Kerry didn't embolden the Viet Cong in the 70s? I thought promoting terrorism was his specialty?

In fairness to horseface, he was encouraging the North Vietnamese. VC were pretty much done with post Tet.

28 posted on 07/30/2014 4:24:52 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Eleutheria5
He needs to watch the shellfish at lunch.


29 posted on 07/30/2014 4:26:47 PM PDT by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Rome2000

Did not know that...I just Googled John Kerry faggot and that was the top link...LOL.


30 posted on 07/30/2014 4:48:10 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bibi is to be complimented for managing to maintain a workable, mostly, relationship with USA since the Enemy has taken over WashDC

that’s five or six years of amazingly tactful Jeruslaem diplomacy dealing with an obviously horrible, unexpectedly bad situation

so now when Israel is attacked with 3,000 rockets (and threatened with being hit by 100,000 more)... Obama/Kerry try to protect their MuslimBrothers/Hamas terrorist comrades, attempting to force Ireael to stop defending herself

I figure the circumstances had finally run their course and that Bibi had no further way to maintain tact

In time, after the IDF elminates as much of the threat as is possible, and after USA hopefully recovers with a new, more loyal regime in 2016, the diplomatic situation can also recover. There being such a strong, deep tie between the two countries and what they (are supposed to) stand for.

Meanwhile, please pray for America.


31 posted on 07/30/2014 5:04:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Eleutheria5

Classy comment.


32 posted on 07/30/2014 5:53:36 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Why does the State Dept. Feel the need to go public with this? All it does is expose Kerry as a big baby and opens him to more criticism.


33 posted on 07/30/2014 6:01:39 PM PDT by WildWeasel
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To: jacknhoo; MinuteGal

Kerry is a self hating Jew, who has tried to pass himself off as all Irish for lo these many years. Bet not that many people know that Kerry is Jewish on one side of his family.


34 posted on 07/30/2014 6:46:47 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: ArmstedFragg

.....”we’ve been supporting them more than anyone ever has”.....

Well one would have to know just what they mean using that phrase...support can mean many things.

We know Obama’s been a royal a** regarding even BiBi’s visits here...and the two have been playing their own tit 4 tat game for some time. That’s how Obama does things, throws his weight around rather than be diplomatic or even remotely representing himself as a statesman...he can’t even fake that and nation leaders know the “King” has no clothes.

This administration just repeats itself....the idea being you repeat it enough times people believe it...and with the those who support OB it doesn’t take much for them to be lapping at his feet.

Ob got the election by many overseas donors, not just here, and he’s indebted to them to perform accordingly. ...

Not to mention the fact Israel has not been supportive of Obamas sanctions with Russia...that speaks volumes.


35 posted on 07/30/2014 7:47:05 PM PDT by caww
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To: WildWeasel

Probably he insisted, because he is a big baby.


36 posted on 07/30/2014 10:50:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
They say that a man and his dog end up looking alike...


37 posted on 07/31/2014 12:04:09 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I have this horrible vision of them both singing a doo-wop song from the 1950s together.


38 posted on 07/31/2014 2:27:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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