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Kerry: Israeli, Palestinian leaders must 'lead'
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Published: 03.04.14, 12:28
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1. Both People's Peace Incompatible
Zechariah   (04.03.14)
The real life peace terms of the Core of Jews and Palestinians are incompatible at this stage only Interim Arrangements with truces are possible for now.
2. Give up Jerusalem
Youseff Bey ,   USA   (04.03.14)
Kerry wants Israel to give up Jerusalem for so called peace. These from the West wanted Israel to give up the Gaza and now we all see the results. Ultimately, the US & the UN want Israel to give up its country and be overrun with these terrorists animals. Sounds sane, doesn't it.
3. How shortsighted of Abbas!!!
Brett L ,   JHB RSA   (04.03.14)
the palaistinaians have made no compromises and continue to demand and when Israel doesn't release prisoners, which should NEVER happen in the first place, they start approaching the UN, for what thats worth!! Abbas and his cohorts never had any intention of making peace in the first place.
4. 1. Zechariah: Interim arrangements? Like the Covenant with
Rivkah   (04.03.14)
Death of Daniel in Scriptures? That one lasts seven years but after 3 and a half years it is broken by the Anti-Christ. What a horrible and wonderful time to be alive, to see the Messiah Yahoshua return but before that the holocausts and wars and pestilences and wild animal attacks and famine. Fear not. What will be, will be. Fear is the opposite of faith. Call on the name of the Father (Yahovah) and the Son (Yahoshua) to be delivered, Scriptures tells us. When the people who are called by Elohim's name call on Him by Name, He will come. He won't come to JeZeus. He will come to Yahovah-Yahoshua. Israel must call on Him by Name.
5. 3 Palestinians have been compromising for 65Y
lydia ,   Brisbane   (04.03.14)
Israel compromises i continue building squatter settlements on land it know it does not own
6. 5
y Allon ,   adelaide/Israel   (04.03.14)
The Quran says there is no Palestine also Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran.King Hussein's father said Jordan is Palestine.Allah says Israel is the land given to Jews. You are one of the stupidest,uneducated posters on this site.Go back into your kennel.
7. In Reply to Lydia in Brisbane
Brian Freed ,   Netanya   (04.03.14)
Bullshit. How about your building a squatter camp in Sydney and throwing the Aborigines to the wolves. History is based on fact not on your perceived fantasies. Brian Freed. Netanya. ISRAEL
8. Boehoe - you can hand jews poison, but
Daniel ,   TA - IL   (04.03.14)
the pesky hardheads do not want to drink it.... drink your poison yourself mr. kerry.
9. Israel was not bound to release any prisoners!
michael redboun ,   Lisbon - Portugal   (04.03.14)
Ynet and Jpost journalists keep saying that Israel backed off releasing the last batch of prisoners as agreed. The fact is that every release of prisoners was predicated on progress in the talks which never happened. So Israel in fact released 3 lots of prisoners when it wasn't obligated to.
10. Just who says we have to drink the poison water?
Avraham ,   Netivot area   (04.03.14)
We've drank more than enough of that poison water, not let the Palestinians drink it. Annex all of Yehuda & Shomron now. Jordan, where 80% of the population are Palestinians, is their Palestine homeland, let them all go home now.
11. kerry pushes, bibi wilts
geroge   (04.03.14)
watch this play out-kerry pushes overnight, bibi will concede 426 prisoners and quiet settlement freeze. Why,because he is afraid, likely never in his life took a position that said no to the United States. He does this over and over again with regard to erdogan and compensation, with settlement freeze. He was never more than a press spokesman period. As for livni, this 6 person party who thinks when she looks in the mirror that she decides for bibi what policy is, is so arrogant that she doesn't appreciate that israelis were sick of olmert and are equally sick of her. You have bibi running around screaming about iran, and livni running around seeking peace talks while israelis are being killed. I am shamed of the 2 of them.
12. We want to 'push' and 'nudge' you out of here Mr. Kerry
Scott ,   Haifa   (04.03.14)
Go home, nobody wants or asks for your presence here. Popular concensus is that Moshe Ya'alon is 100% correct about you.
13. EXACTLY, WE are not horses... your water is polluted
Isaac ,   Israel   (04.03.14)
Even a horse may smell a polluted water and decide not to drink... The American plan is good only for the good name of the Secretary of State, not for the Jewish State. Palestinians will never agree no plan, they simply do not understand what peace means. Let them go to the UN and get his own state, let other countries help them to be a country.....
14. Kerry: Los Estados Unidos needs you
ASTRONAUT ,   SC, USA   (04.03.14)
We've had another shooting at Fort Hood, Kerry...how about you "facilitate, push, and nudge" for the secure borders of YOUR OWN homeland!
15. Kerry leads Israeli horse to the glue factory
Joe Fraser ,   Canada   (04.03.14)
16. How anti climatic Kerry
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.03.14)
resembles a fellow driving his date to lovers lane and when the girl refuses, drives off and makes her walk home... also known as a jerk. Why push so relentlessly and then, blame the parties for not agreeing with your idiocy? No one is ever going to get any where by insisting two old enemies 'kiss and make up.' Lame and damned dangerous. What else could you have expected from obama/clinton/kerry and the "Demands that israel end all settlement activities."? BUILDING IS EVEN SWEETER !!!!
17. The problem is....
Joe ,   Northern israel   (04.03.14)
Kerry you are ,were and will be stubborn and not familiar enough with the real,in-the-street,ways politics develop and oh so rapidly change here in the Middle East ,due to different traditions,habits and political weaknesses.You picked the wrong "horse" in Egypt,you made every possible political but also humanitarian mistake in Syria,you lost one of the most important players Saoudi Arabia :need we go on? But most important you allowed your greenhorn president spread his legs for Iranian oil-thus loosing for the years to come, your position as esteemed world leader and defender of civil-,trade- and world-peace morality. Lately you have shown how powerless and incompetent you are these days,regarding your so called stand off with Putin. Really the guy does not stop laughing and taking you for daily painful rides. So sit still and restore from the USA your sunken prestige,before forcing your, on wrongly based views on matters you cannot solve.
18. Kerry : Netanyahu and Abbas must do my dirty work for me
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (04.03.14)
So I can win the Nobel Peace Prize just like my boss.
19. Does Kerry know the old adage that 'you can lead
er der   (04.03.14)
a whore to culture, but you can't make her think'?
20. #13 -Well said ...
yosef, phd ,   florida - israel   (04.03.14)
Right on, Isaac. Furthermore, Kerry is now trying to save his idiotic face by spewing inappropriate proverbs - he might as well save those for his boss - the most inept pres. in U.S. history...
21. Why does the Israeli Government continue
(04.03.14)
to let themselves be shown as friars?
22. Liars
Sarah   (04.03.14)
Can the israelis ever agree to a plan and stick with it? Every agreement they have signed, the oslo accord, the camp David summit. israelis will always lie,cheat and steal. They murdered 34 U.S service men, shot out their life boats, dropped napalm on the USS LIBERTY! The U.S congress should be ashamed of them selves for giving the israelis more and more money and when the public finds out they find a different way to disguise the money. The U.S used to give them grants but the U.S has to regulate where that money goes to. They now receive loans in which we forgive them year after year. Politicians should only be not be allowed to be duel citizens, israeli and U.S. They are only out for israel
23. #5 Solve your own problems first
Abbo Namajira ,   Tel-Aviv, Israel   (04.03.14)
ie that of the Australian aboriginals,
24. the 2 things that destroyed any hope of talks
zionist forever   (04.03.14)
Obama turned Abbas the moderate into Abbas the hardliner when he first took office, In his desperate attempt to suck up to the islamic world Obama refused to make any demands of Abbas but made constant demands of Bibi and would try humiliate him every chance he got because thats what the muslims wanted to see, If he had taken the idea of negotiation seriously instead of giving the muslims what they wanted he would have said to Bibi & Abbas you want things from America I want you to talk and if the talks break down I will make public who is responsible and why. Abbas like every other Muslim country was laughing at the weakness of this new American president. Then he got his UN upgrade which was a huge ego boost for Abbas, now he was a man with power and he kept going around threatening to go to the UN. He was not going to let his new found powers go to waste, Abbas wanted a UN resolution to get him his state because that meant no negotiating he demanded and the UN would agree to give it to him. The only reason for the talks was to get prisoners out to boost his image at home and so when the time came for him to go to the UN he could play the victim who tried everything but Israel was not interested in peace so vote for him.
25. So now the Usefull Idiot wants -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (04.03.14)
- Abbas and the Israeli PM to continue His Failed Chamberlaining initiative. Go home Yank and ceep Your Peace !. Arn.Sweden.
26. obsessive and messianic or just too stupid to understand?
Alon   (04.03.14)
27. Drink the water like Arafat did? No thanks...BDS!
Lynx ,   Palestine   (04.03.14)
28. #26 Both
GS ,   Germany   (04.03.14)
29. #22 Take a nap
GS ,   Germany   (04.03.14)
30. The Obama/Kerry duo created the situation, based on no...
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (04.03.14)
...knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the essence of the Arab Israeli conflict, local and regional alike. And, now that they can't deliver they blame the parties. And, worse, they blame the parties in equal way: The party that since 1948 has been eager to achieve peace and made many offers toward this aim; and, the party that to this day calls for Israel's demise and the "cleansing" of the national home of the Jewish people of its Jews. This is the face of American foreign policy, and, sadly, the face of America as seen by both friends and foes.
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