Posted on 03/19/2015 5:01:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
Benjamin Netanyahu won the Israeli elections Tuesday. John Kerry lost.
It’s well known in Washington, Jerusalem and the West Bank that Kerry dreamt of being the statesman who finally secured an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. President Barack Obama wasn’t convinced, but he let Kerry try. Neither the Israelis nor Palestinians were much convinced either, but they showed up for a year of negotiations that spectacularly collapsed last spring.
But still, the secretary of state kept wishing there’d be some way back. With polls looking good for Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog last weekend, Kerry mentioned no names, but told a reporter in Egypt that he was looking forward to Israelis electing a government that could “obviously meet the hopes for peace.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party scored a resounding victory in the country's election, final results showed Wednesday, a stunning turnaround after a tight race that had put his lengthy rule in jeopardy.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
That was before Netanyahu won his huge victory with a closing argument that bragged about how he’d approved settlements in East Jerusalem specifically for the purpose of expanding Israeli territory over the 1967 borders, and followed it up by promising that he’d stand in the way of an independent Palestine.
“Kerry was kind of packing his bags on the assumption that if Herzog won, he could pick up where he left off,” said Daniel Kurtzer, an Obama supporter who was President George W. Bush’s first ambassador to Israel.
Now?
“That’s gone. I’m sure Kerry doesn’t believe that, because he’s irrepressible. But all he had to do was listen to the prime minister the last few days,” Kurtzer said.
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In ten years, Kerry will be totally forgotten. And it's going to kill him!
Even his run for president will be forgotten. Ask a young person who Hubert Humphrey or Adlai Stevenson was. They won't know. Even further back, Alf Landon, John W. Davis, Charles Evans Hughes. Who?? Exactly!
Being from MA, I'm delighted in Kerry moving quickly into forgotten oblivion.
Kerry sill be saying “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” soon.
Soetoro keeps fielding his JV team. Kerry and Slick Willie’s wife.
Whew!
Good thing no part of this disaster has been Obama's fault...
Kerry is such the protoypical liberal; practiced in and so used to assuming an air of moral, scientific, or political superiority. Whatever’s convenient for the moment. And it just ain’t there. He is two things, which coincidentally rhyme. One is a “suck up”. The other I will omit.
The sooner we can bury this generation of ‘60s Leftists, the better off this nation will be. That’s why they are hell bent on indoctrinating our children to carry on their pernicious ideology. They’ve aborted theirs.
Nice to see Kerry wearing his St. Pat’s Day tie...
“Good thing no part of this disaster has been Obama’s fault... “
Obama heard about this on CNN.
This guy has been around since the 70 or before. he never goes away.
Why don't these people freaking dry up and go away?
Look how long we suffered with Ted Kennedy and all the harm he caused not only to individuals but to America altogether.
You certainly have Kerry’s number in the bank.
Kerry has always run on empty because he is empty. Stunning that such a bore could rise in US politics while on empty.
But, it says more about the people than it does him, I guess.
"The Kerry Boy is a LOOOOOSER!"
Silly Kerry! All he had to do to get his Nobel Peace Prize was get elected to the US Presidency as a halfrican Sunni Communist Conmander-And-Sheik-And-Liar.
They would have fallen all over themselves mailing it to him.
\NAMOLA (North American Media-Obama Love Association).
NAMOLA - the love that dares not speak its name.
motto - "We're not as bad as NAMBLA, as far as YOU know!"
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