Showing posts with label US Secretary of State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Secretary of State. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Israeli Ambassador Meets Rex Tillerson, Netanyahu Invites US Secretary of State to Israel - Yossi Aloni ISRAEL TODAY

Israeli Ambassador Meets Rex Tillerson, Netanyahu Invites US Secretary of State to Israel

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 |  Yossi Aloni  ISRAEL TODAY
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, got a chance to personally congratulate new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the day of his confirmation when both men attended the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month.
Danon was among some 100 foreign dignitaries invited to the annual event.
Danon and Tillerson discussed Israel’s treatment at the UN, and the Israeli thanked the Trump Administration for appointing as its new ambassador to the UN former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, who has vowed unwavering defense of the Jewish state.
On Tuesday, shortly after touching down in Washington, DC for his first meeting with President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Tillerson to visit Israel in the near future to continue their discussions on pressing matters such as Iran.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Kerry: Israeli Settlement Construction to Blame for Violent Palestinian “Frustration”

Love For His People Editor's note: Killing, beating and stabbing innocent people isn't the way to "vent" your "frustrations." Lawlessness must be dealt with aggressively, to save your people. 

Blindness will always seek to excuse the wrong doer. Only one more year of this one in that position.  Steve Martin

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a Harvard sponsored event Tuesday, October 13, 2015. (Photo: US Department of State)

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a Harvard sponsored event Tuesday, October 13, 2015. (Photo: US Department of State)

Kerry: Israeli Settlement Construction to Blame for Violent Palestinian “Frustration”


“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.” (Proverbs 18:2)
US Secretary of State John Kerry attributed on Tuesday evening the current wave of terror to strike Israel to Palestinian “frustration” over the “massive increase in settlements.”
Speaking at Harvard University, the secretary warned that “unless we get going, the two-state solution will be conceivably stolen from everybody.”
During a question-and-answer session following his talk, Kerry linked Israeli construction in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria as a reasonable excuse for Palestinian violence and terror.
“There’s been a massive increase in settlement over the course of the last years and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing,” he said, adding that there is also a growing “frustration among Israelis who don’t see any end.”
“I look at that and I say if that did explode – and I pray and hope it won’t – and I think there’s options to prevent that, then we would inevitably be at some point engaged in working through those kinds of difficulties,” Kerry explained.
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The US official expressed his confusion over why previous peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have failed, arguing that many people have a sense of how to permanently resolve the conflict.
“So better to find the ways to deal with it before that happens than later and I think what always perplexes me – we’ve been through Oslo, Wye Plantation, Madrid, countless negotiations. Most people I talk to have a pretty damn good sense of what has to be done.”
“It’s a question of making the judgments and having the courage to go there,” Kerry said, adding that “we have 16 months left in this administration and we’re going to stay engaged and try to work through these issues because there are options and there is a better other side to the current conflict we’re witnessing.”
The last US-backed peace talks collapsed in April 2014 following nine months of back-and-fourth negotiations. Kerry revealed he would be visiting Israel “soon” to push for a fresh round of talks to “see if we can’t move away from this precipice.”
On Tuesday, Israel was victim to an unprecedented surge in terror incidents across the country. Three Israelis were killed and over 20 injured. Kerry condemned the attacks earlier in the day, saying “this violence and any incitement to violence has got to stop.”

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/51148/kerry-blames-israeli-settlement-construction-for-violent-palestinian-frustration-jerusalem/#7EfQiEv5qWfyum8O.99