1. John Kerrys Trial by Media
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(12.29.16) |
Sadly a huge opportunity missed
An opportunity to try to bridge divides was instead a puerile and grotesque attempt at Trial by Media a bizarre finale to his faltering career at Israels expense?
The speech the words the body language said it all - was so wretchedly and obviously full of cheap Kerry pique and vindictiveness and obsession ‘to teach Israel a lesson for not giving way to his demands and his high risk strategies’
A sort of crusty old doctor demanding Israel takes his medicine without question ‘for your own good’
So is this the diplomat who expects Israel should stop settlement building in the West Bank immediately WITHOUT Israel DEMANDING ANYTHING IN RETURN such as an end to incitement and the financial support of terrorists?
Does he truly believe that Israelis are not fully aware of the demographics, the economic and human costs for Israelis and Palestinians to maintaining security in the West Bank at the expense of other areas in Israel?
That Israelis crave a resolution just as much as any Palestinian but no Israeli harbours a ‘death wish’.
Is this the diplomat who openly stated in that speech that ‘Israel had a tendency to call criticism Anti Israel or Anti Semitic at the least excuse…perhaps he would understand Jewish ‘sensitivity’ just a generation removed from the Holocaust and the mass expulsion of ¾ million Jews from Arab lands?
Is this the diplomat was to keen to paint Israel as extreme by his profuse collection of quotable quotes from an assortment of right wing Israeli politicians BUT NOT ONE QUOTABLE QUOTE from Hamas or the PA..perhaps too extreme to repeat for at the very least HONEST BALANCE?
Does Kerry who professes to ‘understand’ the geopolitical dynamics of the region really not see that undermining friends so theatrically in that media circus is no good for US credibility, no good for regional stability, no good for the peace process and ….a disaster for any Kerry legacy
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