Posted on 12/28/2016 11:41:11 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Israel fired back at Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasting Kerry’s lengthy televised rebuke of the Middle Eastern democracy and the United States’ abstention from an anti-Israel United Nations vote last week.
Netanyahu, speaking in Jerusalem just over an hour after Kerry’s speech had ended, said the speech was “as unbalanced as the anti-Israel resolution passed last week.”
“Secretary Kerry paid lip service to the unrelenting campaign of terror that has been waged by the Palestinians against the Jewish State,” Netanyahu said.
He later added: “Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.”
Netanyahu’s office immediately slammed Kerry’s speech.
"Like the Security Council resolution that Secretary Kerry advanced in the UN, his speech tonight was skewed against Israel,” a statement said. “For over an hour, Kerry obsessively dealt with settlements and barely touched upon the root of the conflict – Palestinian opposition to a Jewish state in any boundaries.”
Netanyahu’s speech came shortly after the Israeli Attorney General’s office approved a police probe of the prime minister in two separate cases, The Times of Israel reported, citing Channel 10. A Netanyahu spokesman told Haaeretz the case was “nonsense.”
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon also panned Kerry's speech.
“To coordinate anti-Israeli initiatives with the Palestinians at the U.N. and to advance a one-sided resolution against Israel in the Security Council is the opposite of supporting Israel,” Danon said. “The Obama Administration acted against Israel at the U.N. and any claim to the contrary is a distortion of reality.”
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A factually unbalanced speech by a mentally unbalanced secretary of state.
An adult national leader firing back at an idiot....
Yes, but I thinnk the important thing is that both the Dims and the Russians continue to show that they did not like this one little bit. That cold put paid to Obama’s/Kerry’s future plans.
cold = could
Obamas TRUE legacy has been empowering, defending and helping to spread radical Islam while kicking the legs out from the USA and its allies on every single level, and the sonofabitch is doing it to the very end. 24 more days left of hands down, THE worst administration in US history. Al Qaeda, ISIS, only wish they could do the kind of damage to the USA and out allies that this POS has done.
The sticking out the tongue every second was weird..but I guess that is what snakes do
the speech was unbalanced because it was 100 percent for the Moslem terrorist attack gangsters.
the speech was delivered by an unbalanced person, too
hopefully Bibi meant to say that , too
What is it that the Russians didn’t like?
Obama the Jews choice, what a shame they couldn’t understand he was just lyin
How long before Obama laughs and tells us he was always a Muslim?
How long must we endure these Jihadi-enabling fools?
Hard to believe but here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508848/posts
Probably afraid that Kerry/Power/Obama go too far and will allow Trump a free rein to basically dismantle the MidEast policies of the last 30 years.
Lurch is out of his league.
Once again BiBi is correct
The Russians could have vetoed
I am praying hard for God to save America and Israel until President Trump takes over...God Bless America and Israel!!!
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