Posted on 03/01/2015 6:05:54 PM PST by keat
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will defend Israel at a U.N. human rights body on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran that the top diplomat is leading.
Kerry landed in Geneva late on Sunday for up to three days of talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on a deal to restrain the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions on Tehran. The talks will be held in Montreux.
In addition, Kerry will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday to discuss Iran, Syria and Ukraine and speak at the U.N. Human Rights Council in part to defend Israel against what U.S. officials regard as its bias against the Jewish state.
"Our position is always very much in defense of Israel and protection of Israel’s interests at the Human Rights Council," a U.S. official aboard Kerry's plane told reporters, saying any investigations of Israel should be "objective and neutral and not ... one-sided and biased."
The official said that one of Washington's main concerns was a U.N. inquiry into last summer's conflict in Gaza in which more than more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel were killed.
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Bibi’s got Obama and his entire team all wee-weed up over a little speech. Good Lord, what are they going to do under the pressure of a real crisis?
just words.
And this comes from a journalist named ‘Arshad Mohammed’. I’m sure we can believe anything he says about Kerry defending Israel, right?
Arshad Mohammed at Reuters — bound to be a nice objective story about Israel.
A real crisis they always ignore and whitewash with the leftist media cover, like ISIS, the IRS, the NEA, etc.
Lacky Lurch Lunges Laughingly
LOL! The Obamites are scared $hitless and Obama has probably been “sedated” for several days now. The Botoxified cretin, Lurch, is turning tail.....what a circa$$!
All the world’s a stage, but Kerry’s a poor actor
Oh what a tangled web we weave.....
Defending Israel there, doesn’t amount to much ... while allowing Iran to wipe out Israel, elsewhere.
Israel should go on high alert! The Kerry Effect on peace is like the Gore Effect on weather.
The SOS Lurch is conveniently out of DC abroad on ‘business’ when the leader of our key ME ally is to address Congress. I find this very purposely disrespectful and petty but not surprising in the least.
BiBi knows the true story, he wouldn’t be coming here if Obama and his cronies had good intentions, he knows the TRUTH, Kerry and Obama want Israel blown to smithereens..BiBi will do EVERYTHING possible to protect the homeland
As if anyone in the DiC’s administration would ever defend Israel
Hilarious title. I guess Jane Fonda will be the second person to defend Israel. Perhaps Sirhan Sirhan third.
“...more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, ...”
Show me the proof that this number is correct, and then show me the proof that the Palestinians didn’t kill the vast majority of them.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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