Secretary of State John Kerry just gave his final foreign policy speech, and he addressed the outrage regarding the bogus anti-Israel U.N. resolution the U.S. refused to veto. He said the Obama administration could not– with good conscience– stand in the way of the U.N. resolution. According to Kerry, we need to have an honest, clear-eyed conversation on the reality of the situation. Because if there’s anything Kerry has a grasp of, it’s reality. (Refrigerator chemicals are just as dangerous as Islamic State terrorists, just FYI.)
He ultimately said the U.N. resolution was about preserving the two-state solution. That’s what the United States was trying to preserve for Israel’s sake. See? By abstaining, we were helping them.
Kerry: “The 2-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians” https://t.co/uzOvXOYAg4
— CNN (@CNN) December 28, 2016
For some reason, Kerry fails to realize that the two-state solution can never work, because the Palestinians refuse to acknowledge a Jewish state. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
Sec. Kerry: Despite our best efforts, “the two state solution is now in serious jeopardy” https://t.co/ssJFG1KDYN https://t.co/43TNFAjCDC
— CNN (@CNN) December 28, 2016
I’m so sick of hearing Kerry whine about compromise. How can you compromise with people who refuse to accept your existence? It cannot be done. But Kerry continued and said that Israel can be Jewish or democratic, but it cannot be both.
“If the choice is one state…Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both, & it won’t ever really be at peace.” – Sec. Kerry
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 28, 2016
While Kerry condemned Palestinian terrorist attacks, he said many of the terrorists were radicalized by…wait for it..SOCIAL MEDIA. He’s essentially blaming social media for the Palestinian attacks against Israeli citizens. Remember when knife-wielding Palestinians tried to board a bus of Israeli children and when two young Palestinian boys stabbed a security guard and when another Palestinian drove his car into a crowd of people at a bus stop in Jerusalem? Social media drove them to do those things. And after all of the shooting and stabbing sprees (which you can read about here, here, here, here and here), President Obama called the incidents “random violence” caused by “misunderstanding[s]” and “rhetoric.”
But listen. Kerry said “there is absolutely no justification for terrorism and there never will be,” so take THAT, Palestinian terrorists.
John Kerry: “There is absolutely no justification for terrorism, and there never will be” https://t.co/6Flx0pjxXB https://t.co/0uJWiAKss6
— CNN (@CNN) December 28, 2016
No one identified the problem better than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Terror comes form the desire to annihilate us,” Netanyahu said. “That was the motivation for terror in the early days of Zionism, and that’s what’s behind it today as well.”
Exactly.
The truth is, Israel’s always on the defense. Israeli settlements in the West Bank are NOT the reason Israelis and Palestinians can’t reach a permanent peace agreement. Even when they pulled out of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians responded by shooting rockets their way. There will never be peace until Palestinians recognize Israel’s right to exist, and I don’t see that ever happening. THAT’S what stands in the way of the two-state solution– not the Jewish people.
Needless to say, Kerry basically spent the majority of the speech trying to convince the American people (and himself) that this is the most pro-Israel administration in the history of history. And I’m not sure if anyone else caught this, but he subtly admitted that they abstained to punish Israel for electing officials they don’t like.
Sec. Kerry: “The Israeli pm publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right wing in Israeli history.”
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 28, 2016
I mean, why else would he say something like that?
My only consolation is this: The Trump administration takes power in less than a month. Things are about to change.
We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the U.S., but…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2016
not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2016
Stay strong Israel. Help is on the way.