Kerry wants Netanyahu out and warns that if Israel doesn’t make concessions to the Palestinians it will become an apartheid state and invite terrorist attacks against its civilians
The Daily Beast obtained a recording of remarks John Kerry made Friday before a closed meeting of the Trilateral Commission. From the Daily Beast:
If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday.
It wasn't the only controversial comment on the Middle East that Kerry made during his remarks to the Trilateral Commission, a recording of which was obtained by The Daily Beast. Kerry also repeated his warning that a failure of Middle East peace talks could lead to a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. He suggested that a change in either the Israeli or Palestinian leadership could make achieving a peace deal more feasible. He lashed out against Israeli settlement-building. And Kerry said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders share the blame for the current impasse in the talks.
Kerry also said that at some point, he might unveil his own peace deal and tell both sides to “take it or leave it.”
According to the 1998 Rome Statute, the “crime of apartheid” is defined as “inhumane acts… committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” The term is most often used in reference to the system of racial segregation and oppression that governed South Africa from 1948 until 1994.
Comparing Israel to the repressive white regime that ruled South Africa is a new low for the Obama administration. There are 1.5 million Arabs living in Israel and, as Israeli citizens, they enjoy full equality with Jewish citizens.
While Kerry blamed both sides for the impasse, he clearly put most of the blame on Israel and its settlements. And when he suggested a change in leadership, he was really thinking much more about Netanyahu than Abbas. That is a reflection of the hatred Obama has for Netanyahu.
Saying that the failure to achieve a two-state solution will lead to a third intifada is nothing more than a veiled threat. If anything, it is an invitation for the Palestinians to resume their terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians.
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