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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Why are the globalists so interested in creating a nation of Palestine? Just absorb the Palestinians into the neighboring countries. These nations will soon be dissolved anyway according to these elites’ long range plans.
Please, pull yourself together.
Thanks.
Is their a pool? My money is on less than a year.
Absolutely, I see your point. But it all hinges on whether there actaully was anyone to talk to. We don’t know, but eventually the history of the Obama presidency will be written, and hopefully we will get an inside view, not only from the usual Dem journalists but from some of the players during this period.
Both statements in this posting were classic rebuttals to odumboshiite, but this one above was especially great! "Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!"
Absolutely a great succinct rebuttal by Trump against the islamic terrorist odumboshiite. Bottom line is, don't trust odumboshiite to handle any transition of power in a smooth, gracious manner. 0dumboshiite is a hardcore, left-wing, marxist, pro-islamic terrorist, and "smooth transition" is not in odumboshiite's transition plans.
Do they elect their street sweepers in MA? ( but that’s honest work so Kerry wouldn’t be able to do it anyway )
“...“Israelis do not need to be lectured ...
...Especially by a traitor POS who betrayed his OWN country in time of war, while in uniform.
Our very own kethup gigolo, JOhn Kerry
What’s needed, I believe, is a multi-party conference after January 20th of all reasonable players (U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq) leaving out Saudi Arabia whose word cannot be trusted anyway, and hassle out a mutually acceptable Syria policy, giving Israel some assurances that backing Assad is not going to result in a big upturn in Hezbollah attacks on them from southern Lebanon. That is why they were at the least ambiguous on the Syrian conflict, although by now I am sure it has dawned on Netanyahu that Assad is the least of all evils in the real list of possible rulers of Syria (a bunch of liberal shopkeepers in London and Paris might be preferable but they can’t even keep their kids from joining ISIS).
This is a hard world and an especially hard region. Dilletantes such as Obama and Kerry have no useful role to play in such a world. They pontificate about things that cannot be and never will be.
If all the players are on the same page, Iran will get the message and align with the chosen policy. If the Saudis or Gulf emirates don’t like it and want to keep playing game of war with civilians in Syria, they should be told, at first quietly, then if it doesn’t work, forcefully, to butt out, go home, and enjoy the high living on the 20-30 years they have left in the oil business.
Those neighbors did not want them in in 1947, don’t want them now. See influx of “ refugees” to EU, don’t want them either.
DISAGREE... Bibi had to show for the first time how Israel has been disrespected by Obozo...He also had to put blame on Obozo so he could transition to Trump. this “personal” perspective is important to show that Trump is different than Obozo.
Fascinating what syntax tells us about a person’s rational faculty. I could not grasp Kerry’s “democracy or Jewish” state idea. I understood Bibi, loud and clear. And how about the cowardice of the Untied States’ President? How bout that snow cone man having a blast fighting pretend Muslim terrorists (assume Muslims rather than ??) who one more time sends a flunky out front to deliver unpopular news. Obama needs fall gals and guys. He makes Swift Boat Kerry look like a real soldier!
Nobody wants the Palis..they are thugs and bums.
i would include Egypt...Sisi is very pragmatic. and hates the Muslim Brotherhood.
“...barely touched upon the root of the conflict – Palestinian opposition to a Jewish state in any boundaries.”
That’s exactly it.
I am so excited we finally have a leader ourselves the caliber of Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is brilliant again
“Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
Awesome tweet by Trump!
I don’t remember any president-elect saying such things before. This is so amazing!
Trump should have both Obama and Kerry arrested at the close of the inaugural ceremony and frog-marched off to Gitmo. Traitors.
I think Netanyahu is failing at this. He’s still reacting personally .. and that, IMHO, is not a good thing. “
Actually he’s reacting a lot like Trump. I wouldn’t expect Trump to react passively either. Both have loads of testosterone. I’m sure Netanyahu is just anticipating getting to work with a man that is pro-Israel.
The Russians have influence in the area We dont
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