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US: Kerry didn't 'link' Israel, Islamic State growth
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 17.10.14, 23:40
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1. With Sotero in the colored house..
Beary White ,   Norway   (10.18.14)
... then the US government is starting to blaming Israel for wars in the world!! We must NOT forget there is a sunni boy in the colored house, and as the rest of the leftist politicians, the islamic cult followers will ALWAYS blame Israel to gain popularity amongst his/her believers,, to get a free bear and get laid...
2. Backpeddling
LJH ,   Canada   (10.17.14)
If the state dept has to do any more backpeddling from Mr Kerrys statements, they might want to install a permanent reverse gear on what he says.
3. the American explanation I a bridge I like to sale you
JJJ   (10.18.14)
If you buy the American explanation I a bridge I like to sale you. They meant every ward they uttered, you see they know they throw an idea and the world takes as a fact, and this is the exactly what they meant to do
4. There is no bigger "encouragement" to terror than Obama!
(10.18.14)
5. Kerry has feet and hands in the mouth disease
Yoa Sari Levi ,   Haifa Israel   (10.18.14)
This Horse's Assss,can't help himself,he hates us,and we return him the favor.He has no communication skills.A real Debile.
6. kerry is a velvet liar
mark   (10.18.14)
warmed over bullcrap artist along with his state department mouthpiece, kerry is a total bust. At leeast bennett and erdan blasted kerry. Bibi won't c ause he is scared stiff of US sanctions or being alone. He would even agree to 67 border negotiations with reservations just to curry favour.He is as gutless as they come.And yet israelis are dumb enough to vote for him or the labour alternatiives even after their beloved olso and concessions are totally discredited/ US israel relations are important notwithstanding that obama's mideast policy are delusional as peres with kerry being totally full of it./
7. What A Sack Of Doodie
(10.18.14)
To think that over the coarse of a few months so-called sec kerry Has Stuck His FOOT IN HIS MOUTH ONE TOO MANY TIMES, makes the statement of marie REDICULIOUS, everybody on this forum Read What He Said and All came the same CONCLUSION, so to back peddle again Is BULLSHIT, just like this current US administration!!! He ment what he said Again and what he said is What He Ment!!! Israel Will Do What Israel Has To Do concerning the arab Fakenstians ON ISRAELS TIMETABLE!!!! PERIOD, so marie Save Your b.H.o. BS for the arabs your boss SO LOVES!!! BTW don't send kerry back Until Bibi calls for him, he has enough Frequent Flyier Miles!!!
8. No, I don't think so
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.18.14)
Ketchup Kerry ... running his mouth ... the big Swift Boat hero (snicker) who collected purple hearts for getting shot in the ass -- say, doesn't that mean he was running away? He's a moron. Just like his sand monkey boss. Kerry and Obama are political amateurs and complete idiots. If they want to put their 90 average IQs up against Israel's 180 average IQs -- well, do it. Watch what happens. Fricken' assholes is what Kerry and Obama are. Do they really think that they can bully Israel into submission? Okay. Make that 80 IQs. Cretins. Don't they know that they are dealing with the cleverest people on the planet? They'll find out. Very much to their chagrin. Am Israel has seen great civilizations crumble into dust The Americans and the Europeans are rank amateurs. Showtime, folks! Pass the popcorn.
9. what is the meaning of peace maker?
Calibi ,   Sydney Aust   (10.18.14)
Demanding by intimidation and attempt to take away the rights of the Jewish in the Jewish land of Abraham, Issac and Jacob (Israel). Kerry give up don't call yourself a peace maker! Who call the shots? hussein you or clinton? Kerry if you are right China is qualified to help USA on issue of black Afro American & Red Indians grievance! GOD bless Israel & Zion
10. lies and liars
CJK   (10.18.14)
kerry specifically linked israel to recruitment to isis. kerry specifically stated that "humiliation" and lack of "dignity" was a "cause of recruitment" to the isis. kerry is repeating muslim propaganda. according to muslims, all of the problems of their societies stem from the existence of israel.
11. Muslim humiliation: the real cause
CJK   (10.18.14)
muslims have not achieved much of anything for hundreds of years. their claim to Islamic supremacy is a trap since their societies are backward in all respects. israel is a convenient target for their frustrations.
12. Kerry, yeah... Kerry
Toledano Jean-Pierre ,   Israel   (10.18.14)
It's very simple! Obama has his personal links with the Sunna. Not my problem! He has also political links with his ex-pastor and with Louis Farakhan (Nation of Islam). Obama denied it, but... the facts are there. Also Kerry has indirectly (family) links with Iran. What we can expect. For me, everything, the USA policy towards Israel is very clear.
13. Why cant Kerry,etc say "I am sorry"?
Benny ,   Iran   (10.18.14)
It is tragic that kerry & the WH entourage want to trample on everyone, insert mouth in foot, but never say, "I am sorry to the Israelis" for making assinine inflammatory & dangerous statements to the jewish world -- emboldening the Islamists to "lash out at Jews & Israelis" everywhere. Thanks to Kerry, Obama, jen Psaki, Harf, Rice & all the Islamist gems in the WH. Biden makes a statement & apologizes to the brutal dictator, Erdogan, of all people. This guy who tramples on the Kurds, Jews, U.S. & everyone in between & thinks his shit doesnt stink!
14. Once again He is stuck with -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (10.18.14)
- His foot in the Bucket . Arn.Sweden.
15. Kerry is telling the truth but you refuse to understand
Harri ,   EU   (10.18.14)
As Kerry said "there wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation." he was just telling the truth, but nobody in Israel want to listen. To fight that phenomenon, Arab leaders are forced to turn more and more against Israel, just to keep their public calm. Just like Netanyahu is forced to build in settlements to keep Israeli public calm. You both need the peace and two states badly before that anger and agitation blows on your faces also in Israel. Recognizing Palestine is best medicine against that anger at the moment. It gives a promise that this quagmire will end some day.
16. Kerry didn't say so but if he meant it Hats of to him
lydia ,   Brisbane   (10.18.14)
Israel State and ISIS are one and the same. Both sides of the same coin:. Land thieves and mass murderers
17. 8.?Cleverest people on fthe Planet" You Idiot
lydia ,   Brisbane   (10.18.14)
You obviously equate duplicity with cleverness but no one else does Wasn't clever to pitch tent surrounded by 300mil justifiable angry Muslims and it wasn't clever to claim a Sky God gave you land in Palestine because no one is buying the bs you're peddling..
18. The Secretary of US State want to help Israel
Mathilde   (10.18.14)
The conflict between several arab goverments and local fanatics in those countries doesnt matter how they want to call themselfs often have different focuses but share very similar financial systems and extremist ideologies. why to slam Kerry? Netanyahu compared hamas, Iran, Isis, Nasralla, Al Nusra, al qaeda etc in his effusive UN speech last month...uffff we see everybody doing absurd analogies this days, whats going on with all of you? Yesterday was another schmuck saying Isis is ebola! - kofi anann said: " i am disappointed with the response of the international community, which would have been different if the crisis had erupted in the west." - And according to scientists and experts "it would take a state-backed effort with extensive resources to carry out a biological attack with Ebola." - USA armed a coalition to fight islamic status group in Iraq and Syria, whoever is telling to the public indirectly that as long theres no cure for ebola is suggesting also theres no strategy to fight Isis or isil, even though more than 20 countries joint a kind of third world war coalition to kill perhaps thousands of arab or muslims militants, fanatiics or not, it hearts to think about so many innocent people suffering for wars that they dont choose. Peace for all the middle east countries now! Peace for Israelis and Palestinians! shalom
19. To: No. 17
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.18.14)
No, I was just counting the Nobel Prizes and patents that are held by the Jewish people. As to our land, I'm just kind of relying on the fact that there was a Kingdom of Judaea and a Kingdom of Israel -- well documented by both the written record and the archaeological record -- long before there was ever such a thing as Arab sand niggers. Now go back and finish scrubbing the toilets, chica. You don't want your Jewish employers to fire your fat ass.
20. Is Kerry trying to cause spat between Israel and Suadis
Miron ,   USA   (10.18.14)
Will it drive oil price 20 bucks northwards... Buy Exxon and don't blame me for insider trading, pretty please with sugar on top.
21. terrorism
mike north ,   karmiel israel   (10.18.14)
Mr Kerry should be informed that Arafat and his crowd were terrorising long before there were "occupied territories"-send him and Obama on a history lesson
22. To nr 15
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (10.19.14)
The Arab-Israeli conflict is not about borders or land disputes - it's about Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state in the first place within any border. Israel is not building any "settlements" since we Jews have historical and legal rights to all of our land. I just want to remind you that we Jews are the natives of Israel - not the Arabs. Arabs have 22 states, we Jews have just one - which is roughly the size of half of Denmark. And the Arabs already control 80% of our Jewish homeland - Jordan. Denying the factual nature of what I've just stated is simply immature and intellectually dishonest. The Arab-Israeli conflict will be solved when Jews expel the Arabs from Israel and when the Arabs learn to respect Jews and Israel as their equals and as a natural native country in the Middle East amongst themselves and agree to the notion that the Middle East is large enough to house several ethnic nationalisms - not just the Arab one. No Arab state can be built at our expense. Jewish and Arab nationalism can exist side by side and it already does - 1 Jewish state and 22 Arab ones, but not at our expense and if only the EU and the Arabs could accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state and Israel's right to claim its historical homeland the conflict would have ended a long time ago. This isn't a matter of debate. Just repeating the empirically false and unfounded notion of the "centrality" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, turning an existential conflict into a territorial one and falsely portraying Jews as "foreigners" (who are returning natives) and Arabs as "natives" (who are the real foreigners and imperialists) will not in any way, shape or form solve the conflict. The whole notion that Israel needs to cede its own land to which it has moral, historical and legal rights to claim, simple because the EU and the Arabs demand it, is morally repulsive, illegal, violates thousands of years of Jewish history in Israel but most of all - lays the responsibility of the conflict on the wrong party and misidentifies the essence of what the conflict is truly about. No amount of EU intervention has helped to solve this conflict a tiny bit. On the contrary, all EU intervention has only intensified and prolonged the conflict. Using this as a track record, maybe Europeans should rethink their propensity of embracing imperialist feelings of interfering with other countries' conflicts, domestic and international affairs, and just admit that the European involvement is counter productive, uncalled for, hypocriticial, misguided, destructive and beyond their ability. No amount of hysteria in European mass media changes the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict does not effect the daily life of a single EU citizen. The "effect" is the hatred and street violence of Arabs and Moslems in EU countries against Jews, Israelis, and against the Europeans themselves, but the responsibility for this Arab Moslem violence in Europe lies on the Arab party and the European reluctance to stop them and the foolish European decision to let them in into Europe in the first place. Israel cannot be held responsible for Arab street violence in Europe only because Arabs are Jew haters and anti-Semites. Blame the Arabs - not us. Besides Arab street violence in Europe, the "conflict" has no impact on your personal life.
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