State Department Accuses Bennett of 'Distorting' Kerry Comments

Arutz Sheva ^ | 18/10/14 | Tova Dvorin

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The US State Department highly disparaged the remarks of Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) against Secretary of State John Kerry's linkage of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and ISIS, claiming that Bennett was "distorting" the remarks for his "own political purposes."

"I would take issue with the part of your question that Israeli leaders, plural, have disagreed with what they thought the Secretary said," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf stated Friday, when questioned over Kerry's remarks at a press briefing. "I saw one in particular. And we would say to that that we know passions run high, politics are intense, but either this specific minister did not actually read what the Secretary said, or someone is engaging in the politics of distortion here."

"By any means it is an inaccurate reading of what the Secretary said," Harf continued. "He did not make a linkage between Israel and the growth of ISIL, period."

Later, Harf accused Bennett of having an agenda.

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"There wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians," he said - referring to the Cairo conference which eventually saw 5.4 billion dollars raised for Hamas - "because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation."

"People need to understand the connection of that," he continued. "And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity."

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[Eleutheria5]

There it is. It's started.

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"As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL coalition," Kerry said, "the truth is we – there wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to."

Since he has in the past blamed not only Israel but those despicable Jews who want to live in Judea and Samaria, it's clear to me he's blaming Israel for the growth in Isis. Growth no Palestinian group has been able to achieve, which would tend to disprove his point. Wonder what his boss thinks, having just said at the UN

the situation in Iraq and Syria and Libya should cure anybody of the illusion that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the main source of problems in the region."

State can walk it back, but the damage to the Kerry/Obama "peace process" is done. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216920/posts.

It's not clear just who he was talking to, but if he was referring to leaders in the region, it's my impression most consider him and his boss dolts, and the US unreliable. At least he's consistant.

[Eleutheria5]

He exonerated Israel before he blamed us.