John Kerry Blames Terrorism On Jews – While State Department Calls Israel Terrorists
State Department: “Certainly, individuals on both sides of this divide have proven capable of and, in our view, are guilty of acts of terror.“
At an event at Harvard University on Tuesday evening, Kerry spoke of the unraveling situation in and around Jerusalem, where a tempo of violence has relentlessly increased over the last two weeks.
“What’s happening is that, unless we get going, a two-state solution could conceivably be stolen from everybody,” Kerry said.
[Stolen from everybody? Or would it be land stolen from Israel by lunatic Muslim terrorists?]
“And there’s been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years, and now you have this violence because there’s a frustration that is growing.”
… State Department spokesman John Kirby told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday “Is it a source of frustration for Palestinians? You bet it is, and the secretary observed that. But this isn’t about affixing blame on either side here for the violence. What we want to see is the violence cease.”
He said that the US position against Israel’s settlement construction is “crystal clear” and remains unchanged.
… While Kirby has called on both Israel and the Palestinians to reduce tensions by ending “incitement,” he declined to list examples of such incitement on either side. He also declined to attribute blame for the current cycle of terrorism, which has seen 28 separate attacks in 14 days, claiming 7 Israeli lives and wounding 70 others.
… The State Department also concluded on Wednesday that an attack by an Israeli Jew against Israeli Arabs constituted terrorism. “Certainly, individuals on both sides of this divide have proven capable of and, in our view, are guilty of acts of terror,” Kirby said. [Now the State Department is calling Israel terrorists.]
Kerry plans on visiting the region in the near future to discuss the crisis, though he may not visit Israel or the Palestinian territories. His aides have left open a trip to Jordan, instead, where he would meet with Israeli and Palestinian leadership.
Kerry hopes that a calming of the situation may provide an opening for the resumption of negotiations toward a two-state solution.
Leftists “never let a good crisis go to waste”…
Instead of wasting tax dollars and fuel to fly all the way to the Middle East, John Jew-hater Kerry, ought to concider following Teddy Kennedy’s peace plan and driving off a bridge on Chappaquiddick.