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Kerry outdoes himself in new diplomatic frenzy
Matthew Lee, Associated Press
Published: 04.04.14, 09:40
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1. Israel-Palestine Effort-Complete Waste.
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (04.04.14)
Kerry should know now that it is a waste of time trying on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He should focus on Ukraine and the Koreas. He could not even get to a point where both sides could agree on what the basis of negotiations might be. Israel wants the land and to control Palestinians or get rid of them. Palestinians appear willing to share the land, but want freedom which Israel opposes.
2. Why Kerry likes to fly?
Leon   (04.04.14)
What does he do on the flights, enquiring minds want to know.
3. C'mon Kerry if anybody can clear the negativity and acrimony
(04.04.14)
You can!
4. But would he?
Chaim ,   Arad   (04.04.14)
Might as well as you are making no progress here will see that as the rockets flew from Gaza, you are begging Israel to make concessions again, to release prisoners, and give up more land. You would do better dealing with Syria, Russia, North Korea, and of course let's not forget the US. Bye, and don't let the door of the aircraft hit you in the, well, you know the saying.
5. The Fallacy of a Military option as a last resort !.
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (04.04.14)
Comitted to Chamberlaining Policy, all troubbles in the World are now coming to explode in the Face of this policy. All Antiforces of the world has gained momentum, taken the initiative and has become unhandable. Not surprisingly !. Arn.
6. Frenzy.
michael Pielet ,   israel   (04.04.14)
Kerry is trying to place lipstick on a pig.. Peace between Israel and the terrorists will only happen when the terrorists stop being terrorists and reconcile themselves to a Jewish state. That is at best a 50 year process. In 2 years, Kerry can go back to his 150 foot yacht and rest forever.
7. well intentionned but no bottom line
jerold   (04.04.14)
kerry had good intentions but as john mccain said, he was naive about putin, add naive about iran, about the moslem brotherhood, about abbas and hamas. There is no bottom line to the man. His greatest deed in his life that one can measure dollars and cents is marryinig a rich heiress. Other than that he thought he could browbeat and charm and bluster the parties into a deal w hich they both don't want. The arabs want to destroy israel and reverse 48. Sissi has a better way to handle them. israel has to stop using the oz meretz formula which has been a disaster and threaten the PLo with removal. There is no other way.Jordan belonged rightfully to israel so since it is occupied by arabs, the west bank arabs should sign voluntary departure papers one way or another and be moved out to the west bank. the days of peres and olmert are finished. Olmert is going to jail no matter the appeals cause the state now will protect its position and soon indict olmert for obstruction of justice which meadns olmert could sit in jail until he is 80 and rightfully so, the harm he has caused israel. Kadmaon, shiffer, the 2 orens, even bibi and livni and peretz can visit him there and tell him how wonderful he is. Ynet can even plan his return to the PM office whenhe i s 80 where again he can offer assad the golan, abbas 100% of judea in land swap equivalent and as he said, things will be wonderful. What a deluded and disconnected dunce much askerry is deluded. Kerry now says its time for reality check. His mission caused israel endless trouble and was useless. Stay out of the middle east and let it blow up. Obama has shown great misunderstanding of israel. He should check the real history of the place and not the bullshit that rashid khalidi taught him over weekly dinners.l100% of the relics are israeli, there are almost no palestinian archealogic findings. Does that not tell you something??!!illed since you are dealing with a kill culture. The
8. # 1 LOL like obama 's done sooo well re: Putin and N.Korea!
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.04.14)
poor obama, can't buy a clean towel in the bath house. As Rodney Dangerfield once said, "He gets no respect", and rightly so. Annexation and repatriation for the pals to Jordan will occur and the terrorists pals will leave Israel. Best of all, the US laws forbid any payments tot he pals should they attempt joining the U. So, rave on lunatic, the party's over. BUILDING AND WINNING !!!
9. # 2 He sits in the can and farts
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.04.14)
nothing else important to 'report.' KEEP BUILDING !!!
10. # 3 No he can't.
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.04.14)
That's why this fool's lamely running like hell from a situation his boss created and now, has back fired big time. He can use his questionable talents to resolve Syria.. Or, No. Korea. LOL or go home to his ill wife. BUILDING IS WINNING !!!
11. # 4 Chaim, I just posted pretty much the same as you..
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.04.14)
'great minds run in the same channels.' LOL.. Shalom.
12. To All Commentators
Harold ,   USA   (04.04.14)
I bet President Obama and Sectretary of State John Kerry will never give up the two staes solution. Nethanyahu started the problem by not releasing the 26 prisoners as he promissed last July and he is the one who is against peace and the return of the occupied Palestinian lands.
13. Time for action
John Prophet   (04.04.14)
Israel’s unilateral concessions and idle threats against Iran (which no one believes anymore) have been nothing but a slippery slope for Israel. It’s now time for Israel to take some tough measures to keep from sliding into the abyss. 1. Annex Judea, Samaria 2. Take out Hamas and Hezbollah. There is no status quo now for Israel. Time to show the world enough is enough!
14. To: No. 12
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.04.14)
When you start a war and lose, frequently the result is a loss of territory. That happens all the time with respect to sovereign territory -- just ask Germany, Japan and Italy. Judea and Samaria is NONSOVEREIGN territory. Having been reacquired by the State of Israel in the course of fighting, and winning, a defensive war against Jordan, the land is Israel's to settle, retain and even annex. You can continue to spout nonsense, which you rather pompously address "to all commentators," or you can actually acquaint yourself with the rules, statutes and convention governing the disposition of transfer of control of nonsovereign territories as a result of war. Unless you don't mind being the village idiot, I'd suggest the latter course of action
15. #12 To one commentator in particular
A ,   Belgium   (04.04.14)
Your predictions have amounted to nothing, the "peace talks" have amounted to nothing, your idiotic posts are worth nothing, and YOU...
16. Mark ben Josef #1, thanks for the comedy
Jake   (04.04.14)
And good punchline, with cue-in for audience laughter...that is, at you, not with you. Now, outside of la-la-land, that is, on Planet Earth, the palestinian factions are unwilling to share the land even with eachother, let alone with the Jewish State, which all of them refuse to recognize (and agree on nothing else).
17. What makes Kerry run?
Alan ,   Tel-Aviv Israel   (04.04.14)
Look at all those frequent failure miles Kerry gets for his efforts.
18. #12 Harold
Amnon ,   USA   (04.04.14)
As always you are a troll, Nethanyahu made a mistake ,execute all terrorists and problem solved.
19. #12 total nonsense
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (04.04.14)
Israel said that they would be released IF the Arabs made progress - that didn't happen and it was cancelled AFTER the Arabs violated every treaty again. And it is the Arabs that occupy our land - not the other way around. Your leaders' stupid support for Arab thieves is the problem
20. Harold #12 You bet
Jake   (04.04.14)
Here's what I bet. I bet the Obama administration will never score a single foreign policy success. I bet it will never succeed in stablizing the situation in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Syria, or Libya, or Iran, or Korea. I bet that in each of these cases, forces hostile to American interests will prevail. I bet the Obama administration will fail in its current debackle with Russia and lose utterly on the Ukraine issue to a victorious Putin. I bet that it will fail in the so-called "peace process", even though it underhandledly tried to use Pollard as a bargaining chip, whom it had no real intention of freeing. That's what I bet, but I don't think you'd bet otherwise, because you know that is the cold, hard truth.
21. Israel losing talks, quitting, taking their Ball, Kerry home
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.04.14)
22. #12 Harold
Albrecht Klein ,   Germany   (04.04.14)
After November 4, 2014, they will.
23. # 18 Execute all pal terrorists? LOVE IT!!!
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
I'd pay to watch that, I bet another 5 billion people would too, where may I buy tickets for the main event? KEEPING BUSY BUILDING !!!
24. # 12 Poor dumb Harold
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
It might be possible that those as of yet unreleased pal terrorists maybe if the PA doesn't mind sealed coffins. KEEPING BUSY BUILDING !!!
25. # 17 His ill wife
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
kerry has the character of a cockroach, he leaves his ill wife while he plays Mr. Important. ( In his mind only ) BUILDING IS WINNING !!!!
26. # 20 Jake you winner!
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
Your bets are winning bets. BathHouse Barry's the laughing stock of late night comics. A tragedy on Americans. KEEP BUILDING !!!
27. #13 & 14
Harold ,   USA   (04.06.14)
You are wrong. We will wait and see. Obama hates to loose what he promised to do.
28. # 27obama's a joke on the late night talk shows
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
and not too funny playing to the American people who he's just screwed royally. Mid term election results will ham string this pathetic criminal obama. He embarrasses all Americans with his eunuch behavior and Bath House protocols. There's a very good chance obama will be impeached he's made nothing but enemies now, even the dems are running from him so as not to be remember as those who gave America on a platter to a pro muslim anti semitic idiot liar. GET EVEN BUILD TO THE MAX!!!!
29. Ben Stein on CBS Sunday Morning just skewered obama
BUILD BABY BUILD!!!!   (04.06.14)
and his lunatics proposals to Israel to end building as the pals refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist. Ben points out that Israel's never had a military loss, and that no other nation on earth is being asked, required, or 'demand' that they 1- End all building 2- Cede their land to their enemy 3- Accept a nation of violent 4- release convicted terrorists with blood on their hands aggressors who are famous for using their own teens as suicide bombers Thank you Ben for saying what ALL American's feel, betrayed, sold out and damned angry. Now, what do you suppose other US allies are thinking? Can we trust obama's new Ameirka? ( I use the letter K for Kenyan to honor our lying, pea brained BathHouse Barry ) And, sadly, the answer is No.! Sooooooo,. BUILD EVEN MORE !!!
30. Arab Peace Games
Ralph Rosenfeld ,   Sun City West   (04.07.14)
Kerry like many others will fail at achieving a final settlement. Why ?. because Israel's well meaning efforts towards the welfare of Palestinians since 1947 have all been regarded as weakness and has simply intensified their hatred of Jews.That is their nature. After the wars, had Israel taken, and rightfully defined it's territory, and disavowed itself completely from any relations with the Arabs, todays situation would be quite different. The world would have screamed [like Crimea] and done nothing. It is Jewish compassion that is doing us in!.When do we stop playing patsy games and do what has to be done ?
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