by Israel Hayom Staff
"The Palestinians did wonderful work and remained committed to nonviolence," John Kerry says in audio recording • Prime Minister's Office: It is regrettable that Kerry still does not understand that the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel inside any borders.
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Former U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry
Photo: Reuters
Former
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who attempted to broker a peace
deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2014, said in an
audio recording obtained by Channel 10 News and aired on Tuesday that
"Israel doesn't have leaders who want to make peace."
Kerry's comments were reportedly made
several days ago at a closed conference in Dubai. Joint Arab List
Chairman MK Ayman Odeh attended the conference, while Opposition Leader
Isaac Herzog was linked in via video feed.
"If this doesn't change, I'll be surprised
if a new and young Palestinian leader doesn't emerge within the next 10
years and says: 'We tried nonviolence for 30 years and it didn't get us
anywhere," Kerry was heard saying.
In the recording, Kerry said he believes
"Palestine won't be immune forever" to human rights movements that
forced a change in other countries.
"For some reason, Israel ignores this. That is not leadership," Kerry reportedly said.
He also said that in the last Israeli
general elections, Herzog had represented an alternative option and that
"you need to want to make peace." He named former prime ministers Ehud
Olmert, Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres as leaders who tried
forging a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kerry said his mediation efforts failed
because of Israel and that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
was a viable partner for a peace deal.
"The Palestinians did wonderful work and
remained committed to nonviolence. Essentially, when the intifada
erupted, they did not use violence in the West Bank. The [Israeli]
public ignored this. It didn't talk about it. Why? Because most of the
cabinet ministers in the current Israeli government publicly declared
that they will never support a Palestinian state," Kerry was recorded as
saying.
In response, the Prime Minister's Office
said in a statement: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will continue to
stand steadfast on behalf of Israel's national and security interests,
even if this isn't viewed favorably by the person who tried and failed
to push him toward dangerous concessions.
"The reason there is no peace is first and
foremost the Palestinians' refusal to recognize Israel inside any
borders. They are even condemning the British government right now for
the Balfour Declaration. It is regrettable that John Kerry still does
not understand that."
Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon
posted on Twitter, saying, "To blame the Israeli government for
torpedoing the [diplomatic] process, when [Abbas] never even entered
negotiations and slammed the door in the face of Kerry and
[then-President Barack] Obama is a harmful distortion of the facts."
Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2017/11/08/former-secretary-of-state-israeli-leaders-not-interested-in-peace/
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1 comment:
Nov. 10,2017
Is John so-called "Kerry" a contender for worst Secretary of State since the end of WWII ? Or, is it his predecessor, Mme. Clinton ? "Kerry" has a very special problem with his own origins, which butcher-boy Assad Jr. was quite willing to "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" at. It's remarkably similar to that of George so-called "Soros" & at least half a dozen other specimens who were favorite progressive "hymies"{Thank-you for that one Jesse Jackson}of the most incompetent & anti-American president of the last century.He was hardly secretive about it. The most intriguing long term relationship of "Kerry's" political career was with that standard-model Muslim caudillo of Damascus, Assad Junior. All those soirees, photo-ops and outings with the power couple of Syria & Mr.& Mme. Heinz-"Kerry" cannot be left to fall down the memory hole of recent diplomatic history. Indeed, has any one out there got the courage to give it the investigative depth it deserves?
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