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Kerry, Meeting With Netanyahu, Sounds a Cautious Note of Optimism (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | October 22, 2015 | MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ALISON SMALE

Posted on 10/22/2015 8:22:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1

BERLIN — With Israelis and Palestinians caught in another widening cycle of bloodshed, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Berlin on Thursday and urged him to tone down the harsh language that American and European officials believe is fueling the violence.

The message delivered on Thursday to Mr. Netanyahu, who claimed this week that a Muslim cleric had inspired the Holocaust, will be repeated in the coming days when Mr. Kerry meets the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, whose own comments Mr. Netanyahu and others have blamed for provoking attacks.

Mr. Kerry sounded a positive note after his meeting with Mr. Netanyanu, saying that their conversation gave him “a cautious measure of optimism,” Reuters reported. He added that the talks gave him hope that there may be a way “to defuse the situation and begin to find a way forward.”

At the center of the crisis is a long-running dispute over Israel’s management of an Old City holy site, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, and the country’s recent efforts to limit access to the area by young men who it says are instigating violence.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; War on Terror
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Killing Palestinians who are stabbing Israelis perpetuates the "cycle of violence". Sometimes the NYT disgusts me.
1 posted on 10/22/2015 8:22:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Bibi must ave the patience of a Saint.

meeting with John John Kerry? PLEASE....

NUKE PALESTINE NOW!!!


2 posted on 10/22/2015 8:25:07 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: reaganaut1
Kerry, Meeting With Netanyahu, Sounds a Cautious Note of Optimism

that Kerry will be able to position Netanyahu so Obama can stab him in the back.

3 posted on 10/22/2015 8:25:47 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Netman sees them clear as day...

They (Bozo and Little Johnny) are like a kid playing hide and seek while wearing a Neon costume honking a bicycle horn to draw attention to themselves...

They are far beyond conceited, they are convinced that they are right and the world just needs time and “coaching” to come over to their side and way of thinking...

Sure Bark, the check is in the uhhhhh...mail

No not a Male, get your mind out of the Gutter Barky!!


4 posted on 10/22/2015 8:30:45 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: reaganaut1
Is he bringing James Taylor with him to serenade the "alleged" mohamicidal attackers?

Johnny's a hero! He shot more videos than VC!

5 posted on 10/22/2015 8:37:58 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: reaganaut1
There is only one man that can bring peace to the Israelis and that is Trump...

He is a deal maker, and a great one at that, so he would listen to both sides, then tell them both what was going to happen...keeping Israel as our allay and telling the Palestinians that if they kept it up, they would be bombed to kingdom come...and if they didn't listen, there would be on more Palestinians....

Now how hard is that? The Palestine people don't belong there, they belong to Egypt...why aren't they there? because Egypt doesn't want them either...

6 posted on 10/22/2015 8:56:36 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: 100American
... the world just needs time and “coaching” ...

"coaching"...

7 posted on 10/22/2015 9:01:47 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Navy Patriot

Kerry is cautiously optimistic that a “final solution” can be reached...


8 posted on 10/22/2015 9:04:05 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Navy Patriot

Of course, we are just children and lucky to be shaded by their mighty shadows...

And when we disobey there are consequences...

They are excluded as their judgement, although not perfect, is never wrong...

Playing God...


9 posted on 10/22/2015 10:00:35 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: reaganaut1

Looking at the photos from this meeting did not make me ‘cautiously optimistic’. They made me decidedly worried. Kerry is simply stupid. A cretin. An oblivious, animated pile of stupid meat. Just like he always does. Bibi looks worried. Bibi looks like a man existentially worried. As he has never appeared before.

The only world leader who is not aloof from or overtly hostile towards Netanyahu right now appears to be Putin, but their relationship at best resembles detente and has the wild card of Iran in the mix. China is making soft neutral noises. That appears to be it. A handful of maybe neutrals, set against the official hostility and undermining intermeddling or subversion by the rest of the Middle East, the EU, and the United States at official levels. Israel stands alone in the world. Right now. Today.

This is indeed a time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Go and look at the photos of Bibi Netanyahu, from the time he excoriated a silently mocking UN, to this dog and pony show of quisling Kerry’s.

Time to call down some Psalm 1.


10 posted on 10/22/2015 11:37:19 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Another Lurch-Zero helluva pinpoint operation:
11 posted on 10/24/2015 12:53:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: reaganaut1
The message delivered on Thursday to Mr. Netanyahu, who claimed this week that a Muslim cleric had inspired the Holocaust

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

12 posted on 06/10/2017 6:23:06 PM PDT by piasa
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