John Kerry Doesn't Want Benjamin Netanyahu Visit to Become 'Some Great Political Football'
Posted on 03/01/2015 10:23:41 AM PST by Dave346
Two days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak to a joint session of Congress, Secretary of State John Kerry said the prime minister is welcome to speak in the U.S. but worries it injects far too much politics into the relationship.
“The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously,” Kerry said today in an exclusive interview on ABC’s "This Week." “I talk to the prime minister regularly, including yesterday."
But, Kerry added, "we don't want to see this turned into some great political football.”
Kerry echoed frustrations expressed by the White House that House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu was inappropriate.
“It was odd, if not unique, that we learned of it from the speaker of the House and that an administration was not included in this process," he said. "But the administration is not seeking to politicize this.”
Yet, while departing Israel for Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning, the prime minister seemed to be brimming with confidence. Speaking in Hebrew to reporters at the airport, Netanyahu called it a “crucial and even historical mission.”
“I feel I am representing all the citizens of Israel, even those who do not agree with me,” Netanyahu said. “I feel a deep and sincere concern for the safety of all the citizens of Israel and the fate of the state and the fate of our people. I will do everything in my power to secure our future."
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Oh. Well, then thanks for the free publicity.
Hilarious to here Kerry say this after the daily onslaught of the last 6 weeks.
They’ve guaranteed the audience will be far greater than those in 1996 and 2011 (Bibi’s prior Congress speeches)!
Retreating compromise... Ketchup boy knows he’s SOL on this one.
F, John Ketchup,he’s a POS like his boss
This is not political you oversized dunce of a Secretary. Israel knows that if given a chance Iran will build a bomb just to drop on you know who. And you know who considers that a direct threat.
So Bibi is coming to speak about it.
Freegards
LEX
Great minds....10 or so seconds behind ya
Then stop kicking it around, Kerry.
John Kerry Doesn't Want Benjamin Netanyahu Visit to Become 'Some Great Political Football'
Quoting Kristol ...
As it will be a moment of vindication for Zionism, the cause to which he and his family have dedicated their lives. In past episodes of Jews’ being consigned by the world to their fate, they were powerless to fight. And so the world (and not a few Jews) became accustomed to Jews’ playing the role of victim. On March 3, something remarkable and historic will happen. The prime minister of Israel, speaking on behalf of not only his country and millions of Jews, but on behalf of the West itself, will command the world’s attention as he declares his refusal to appease the enemies of Israel and the West. Both Jabotinsky and Churchill, both Ben-Gurion and Truman, would appre
Netanyahu’s Moment
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Johnny Johnny Johnny youre democrack cronies have done precisely that....turned it into a political football.
Is Johnny Excepting himself from his own accusations? how DOES that work anyway?
Another FOOL in a leadership position.
I'm literally seeing America fading into the distance in my rear view mirror.
If that were true, he’d STFU about it.
Kerry and Obama are worried about Netanyahu to let a cat out of a bag.
Didn’t Kerry go to Viet Nam ?
and then stabbed his fellow soldiers in the back.
Is that glass I hear breaking coming from Kerry’s house?
I do recall hearing something about that. He was some kind of hero, as I recall. He took a buttock full of rice to preserve freedom. It don’t get any better than that. Excuse me as I wipe the tear from my eye.
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