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John Kerry: The betrayal
« on: July 27, 2014, 01:03:14 pm »
http://www.timesofisrael.com/john-kerry-the-betrayal/


John Kerry: The betrayal

Op-ed: Astoundingly, the secretary’s intervention in the Hamas war empowers the Gaza terrorist government bent on destroying Israel
By David Horovitz July 27, 2014, 2:55 pm

When The Times of Israel’s Avi Issacharoff first reported the content of John Kerry’s ceasefire proposal on Friday afternoon, I wondered if something had gotten lost in translation. It seemed inconceivable that the American secretary of state would have drafted an initiative that, as a priority, did not require the dismantling of Hamas’s rocket arsenal and network of tunnels dug under the Israeli border. Yet the reported text did not address these issues at all, nor call for the demilitarization of Gaza.


It seemed inconceivable that the secretary’s initiative would specify the need to address Hamas’s demands for a lifting of the siege of Gaza, as though Hamas were a legitimate injured party acting in the interests of the people of Gaza — rather than the terror group that violently seized control of the Strip in 2007, diverted Gaza’s resources to its war effort against Israel, and could be relied upon to exploit any lifting of the “siege” in order to import yet more devastating weaponry with which to kill Israelis.

Israel and the US are meant to be allies; the US is meant to be committed to the protection of Israel in this most ruthless of neighborhoods; together, the US and Israel are meant to be trying to marginalize the murderous Islamic extremism that threatens the free world. Yet here was the top US diplomat appearing to accommodate a vicious terrorist organization bent on Israel’s destruction, with a formula that would leave Hamas better equipped to achieve that goal.

The appalled response to the Kerry proposal by the members of the security cabinet on Friday night, however, made plain nothing had gotten lost in translation at all. The secretary’s proposal managed to unite Israel’s disparate group of key political leaders — from Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman on the right, through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni on the center-left — in a unanimous response of horrified rejection and leaked castigation.

The Netanyahu government has had no shortage of run-ins with Kerry in the mere 18 months he has held office. The prime minister publicly pleaded with him in November not to sign the interim deal with Iran on its rogue nuclear program, and there has been constant friction between the two governments over thwarting Iran’s bid for the bomb. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon in January ridiculed Kerry’s security proposals for a West Bank withdrawal, calling the secretary “messianic” and obsessive” in his quest for an accord with the Palestinians that simply wasn’t there. The collapse of the talks in March-April was accompanied by allegations from Jerusalem that Kerry had botched the process, telling Israel one thing and the Palestinian Authority another, including misrepresenting Israel’s position on Palestinian prisoner releases.

But none of those episodes, though deeply troubling and relating to issues central to Israel’s well-being, provoked the kind of outraged disbelief at Kerry’s performance that has been emanating from the Israeli leadership in the past 48 hours. Leaked comments from unnamed senior government sources to Army Radio, Channel 2 and other Hebrew outlets have described the secretary as amateurish, incompetent, incapable of understanding the material he is dealing with — in short, a blithering fool.

But actually, it’s worse than that. What emerges from Kerry’s self-initiated ceasefire mission — Israel had already accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal; and nobody asked him to come out on a trip he prefaced with sneering remarks about Israel’s attempted “pinpoint” strikes on Hamas terror targets — is that Jerusalem now regards him as duplicitous and dangerous.

Contrary to his public claim at his press conference in Cairo that his ceasefire proposal was “built on” the Egyptian initiative, it manifestly is nothing of the kind. As indicated by the unconfirmed text reported by Issacharoff, by other subsequent reports of its content, and by the cabinet’s outraged rejection, it is a proposal that, to quote an unnamed official cited by Channel 2, “tunneled under the Egyptian initiative,” a document, to quote from another of those leaked comments, that reads like it was drawn up for or even by Hamas’s Khaled Mashaal.

And Kerry didn’t let up after unleashing his dreadful proposal. Following Friday’s fiasco, he jetted off to Paris and, quite extraordinarily, convened further consultations dominated by countries that overtly wish to do Israel harm. He met with his counterparts from Turkey, whose Hamas-backing leadership has lately accused Israel of attempting genocide in Gaza and compared Netanyahu to Hitler, and with Qatar, Hamas’s funder in chief, directly accused by president Shimon Peres last week of financing Hamas’s rockets and tunnels. Staggeringly, he did not bring Israel, Egypt, or the PA to his Paris sessions.

There were further leaks from the cabinet at the weekend to the effect that Netanyahu and his colleagues did not formally announce their unanimous rejection of Kerry’s ceasefire proposal in order to avoid provoking a public diplomatic confrontation with Israel’s most important ally. Instead, word of the rejection was allowed to find its way out. That seems rather quaint given what is clearly a major crisis in Israel-US ties at a time when Israel finds itself in the midst of a complex and costly war.

When Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, got involved in the effort to broker terms for ending Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012, it was self-evident that, first, a ceasefire was at hand, and, second, that the diplomatic work was being coordinated effectively with Jerusalem to ensure that Israel’s vital interests were being served. It is a testament to Kerry’s incompetence (or worse), and to the collapse of faith between him and Israel, that, when he headed ignominiously home on Saturday, neither of those assumptions held sway.

Whether through ineptitude, malice, or both, Kerry’s intervention was not a case of America’s top diplomat coming to our region to help ensure, through astute negotiation, the protection of a key ally. This was a betrayal.
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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2014, 01:45:15 pm »
It is incomprehensible to me how John Kerry can possibly continue as US Secretary of State with this kind of incredible denouncement of him by Israel.  Anyone else in this position would have submitted their resignation long ago....or more correctly, any other President would have summarily fired any cabinet secretary long before they could be criticized like this in such a public manner, but such an important ally.

More importantly, this is a direct rejection of the Obama Administration.  This makes it clear that Israeli leaders across the board are desperately trying not to embarrass Obama, but by sending Kerry over to scramble America's relations with Israel this badly leaves them little choice. 

We knew this was bad but this makes it clear things are much worse than anyone in Washington is willing to admit.


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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 01:57:27 pm »
It's pretty bad when Hillary Clinton is held up as a paragon of competence by way of comparison.

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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 02:06:08 pm »
It's pretty bad when Hillary Clinton is held up as a paragon of competence by way of comparison.

But only because she didn't go in there and collude with Israel's enemies....but even they can't name a major accomplishment by the Hildebeest...

This is a stunning denouncement of a sitting Secretary of State.  I do not see how he can continue.

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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 02:12:31 pm »
Astounding how we can leave Israel so isolated diplomatically. Sadly, Kerry will resign when Holder does.
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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 03:02:15 pm »
I wonder if there are any American Jews who now regret putting all of their eggs in the basket of the Democrat Party that is now leading them to the showers?  Probably not.  This whole situation is dripping with irony.

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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2014, 03:10:47 pm »
Our foreign policy is an abject failure and the disasters that have incurred because of this administration will have fall-out for years to come.  I'm physically ill with disgust at the Obama administration and their butt-buddy media - and with the cretins that voted for them - twice!

I knew when Kerry took over Sec. of State that he would be worse than Hillary Clinton at the job.  How much worse - I didn't even fathom at the time.  It doesn't seem possible, but he actually is a blithering idiot with malevolent intentions.

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Re: John Kerry: The betrayal
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2014, 03:42:34 am »
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This is a stunning denouncement of a sitting Secretary of State.  I do not see how he can continue.

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That's because you're not a liberal/progressive and therefore have at least half a brain, and most likely a lot more.