söndag 10 november 2013

Jerusalem Post om Kerrys uttalanden

I följande artikel skriver Herb Keinon om reaktionerna på Kerrys uttalanden.
Kerry interview nudges Netanyahu relations back to the past 
"... For a diplomat, Kerry was strikingly undiplomatic in that interview, warning Israel that if it did not do what the Palestinians and the US wanted, it would face a third intifada and international isolation.
“The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos,” Kerry said. “I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?”
Some might have asked Kerry the question in reverse. “If you impose an agreement on Israel that doesn’t give it the security it believes it needs, does the US want to see rockets falling on Tel Aviv?”
What made Kerry’s threats of a third intifada even more jarring was that they came just days after a poll conducted by the Arab World For Research & Development found that only 29 percent of the Palestinians said they supported a third intifada.
Kerry invoking a third intifada is reminiscent of Obama calling for a complete and total settlement freeze in May 2009, something the Palestinians weren’t talking about at that time, thus forcing their hand and pushing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas up a tree from which it took years to bring him down..."

Bayit Yehudi MK to Kerry: You are not an 'honest broker' to Israeli-Palestinian talks
 "...US Secretary of State John Kerry is not a fair negotiator, MK Orit Struck (Bayit Yehudi) wrote Friday, in what appears to be a trend of lawmakers from her party penning angry letters to Kerry.
Struck's letter came after Channel 2 News interviewed Kerry Thursday, and the lawmaker summarized his comments as "threatening Israel with a third Intifada if it refuses to capitulate to [his] demands and those of the Palestinians and remove its soldiers from the areas of Judea and Samaria..."

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