Op-ed: US secretary of state keeps saying Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged. What about the situation in Syria, Iraq, Russia, China and Turkey?
Like a regular mantra, US Secretary of State John Kerry has a habit of saying that the Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged.
Strangely enough, he isn’t saying that about the conflict in Syria, where the death toll has already crossed the 200,000 mark with people being slaughtered, beheaded and dying in different ways, on its way to the 250,000 mark; he isn’t saying that about four million refugees from Syria and 10 million displaced people; he isn’t saying that about the Islamic State, which is beheading people and butchering minorities; he isn’t saying that about Iraq, which has been torn into pieces, or about Baghdad’s airport which is about to fall into the hands of jihadist terror.
He isn’t saying that about Libya either, a country controlled by a coalition of insane jihad organizations, on the verge of Europe. He isn’t saying that about Yemen, which has died and is controlled by wild tribes navigated from behind the scenes by the “smiling” Iran; he isn’t saying that about the intolerable uranium enrichment in Tehran, which has him and the West wrapped around its little finger.
He isn’t saying that about Russia either, which not only conquered eastern Ukraine, but also annexed the huge Crimea region. It isn’t an “occupation,” after all; that only exists in Israel.
He isn’t saying that about Turkey, which brutally conquered one-third of the island of Cyprus, and still controls the area; he isn’t saying that about China either, which is slowly turning Tibet into a region inhabited by Chinese; he isn’t saying that about Hezbollah, which is piling up tens of thousands of missiles on Israel’s border; he isn’t saying that about his Qatari friends, who are cunningly funding the terror that the United States is fighting against; he isn’t saying that about Hamas either, which proudly announced that it is rebuilding its network of terror tunnels targeting Israeli territory.
He is only saying that about Israel – the only safe, stable, democratic place one can rely on in the Middle East. Only in Israel, the situation cannot remain unchanged.
I would just like to mention that it was John Kerry who was Syrian President Bashar Assad’s personal friend and sat down with him many times for intimate meetings. It was John Kerry, in his former position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who worked to return the American ambassador to Damascus and pressure Israel, with the price being the Golan Heights of course. Then too, the situation could not remain unchanged, and aren’t we lucky that it did remain unchanged.
The question is why is he always singling out Israel of all the nations in the world? Could it be that it pains him to see Israel secure and thriving, and that’s why he has such an urge to weaken it? To sell it to a Palestinian gang whose only goal is to weaken Israel, and then resume the fighting against it after it crumbles?
Can’t he hear the leader of this gang, Mahmoud Abbas, referring to the Jews as “impure,” as they are defiling the Temple Mount when they visit it? Can’t he see the law sentencing a Palestinian to death for daring to sell a house to a Jew? Abbas even added that he would step up the punishment for selling homes to Jews, but how can a death sentence be stepped up?
The situation cannot remain unchanged. Perhaps the foreign minister of the United States would care to explain to us why he only uses this expression here. Why is he singling Israel and the Jews out of all the nations?
@ bernard ross:
Too many too keep it under wraps. All you need is one credible whistle-blower to bring down the house of cards. Heck it’s Washington after all!!!! nothing stays secret for long. You watch it might even happen when he is still in office.
yamit82 Said:
it will embarrass too many crooks from both parties, they will agree to keep it quiet as they already do and move on to the next feeding trough cycle
mar55 Said:
If half of what we think we know is ever brought to light in mainstream forums as fact it would turn the whole institutional structure of the American system on it’s head… The coverup is so broad and deep that few will escape culpability in the coverup.
The American people who looked the other way rejected the truth and never asked the obvious question and voted twice for the Black Plague will have to do the most soul searching and I’m not sure they will and I know they won’t like what they find out if they do.
It will make Watergate look like a tea party.
@ yamit82:
And I hope they can clean the media and get rid of the inept compromising Republicans.
yamit82 Said:
Turtlenecks, mock turtlenecks, polo shirts, gore tex pull overs practical cloths.
(con’t) correction: no one is going to want to be associated with obama or his minions, they are finished. If the US electorate cannot figure this out then all is lost. One would think since the gulf states are allied w Israel, The US would have no need for the standard even handed diplomacy, yet they are still giving Israel the short end of the stick.
Why is kerry singling out Israel? kerry works at the pleasure of potus. kerry is doing the job he was hired to do, picking on Israel would have been one job description obama would have made certain kerry would be in compliance with. LOOK at all of obama’s second term cabinet/key personnel, you rank them; measure one: track/attack record on Israel; critical of “occupation”: 1-10, 10 is virtual certainty of compliance: none of these jokers tainted by their twisted loyalty to the first muslim POTUS should render their careers finished/caput.
kerry 10
hagel 10
power 10
indick 10
biden 10
malley 10
brennan the muslim 10
unfortunately the plan was for obama to help the muslim brotherhood to take over the region: FAILURE
Kerry like Ashton believes that he must be tough on Jews to show their lack of pro-Jew Bias. Both have some remote connection to Jews.
The Pr. has decided to unleash the non-Islamic Muslims on America.
The major enemies of the Jews: far left, seculars and Islamists (Shia & Sunnis)
@ honeybee:
Did you mean Land’s end chain???? 😉
@ honeybee:
While you were gone I began a data base search for names like those you supplied. Didn’t notice you returned.
@ bernard ross:
After he is out of office the shit will hit the fan. Constitutional crisis I bet. All the hidden information and secrets will emerge. Till now the Republicans have protected him, institutional America and the media….. It will come out and I don’t think there will ever be another black president after Obama.
honeybee Said:
Chose your land If I can’t buy I’ll conquer it.
yamit82 Said:
Not my style, I am more of Landsend girl.
yamit82 Said:
maybe just to talk to congress
Its a harsh blow just before the election, it clearly appears to distinguish between the dunces and the nation, possibly reaching out to congress……
looks like Obama hasnt had much good luck, although I doubt that he cares as he had a good ride and got a term more than Carter…….. I wonder how his golf game is going?
@ bernard ross:
They may never let him back into America at least not in the next two years 🙂
Iran must be getting close to a breakout.
Looks like the US public is getting a dose of the current regimes incompetency, clearly enunciated by Yaalon, just before the election; and the clearly worded statement demonstrating that the leadership is not mistaken for the US nation. I wonder if the Obama admin knew this was coming, perhaps the real reason for the snub
The close ally tells the US public that the Obama admin is clueless on ALL fronts just before the vote.
@ honeybee:
All you can handle. You can buy out the whole flee market and binge in Neiman Marcus. I am the most generous and giving. money don’t mean much to me except to enjoy it even and especially-it’s giving it to mi hermosa abeja de la miel, que me dará el placer de verte siempre feliz.
yamit82 Said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHM3wV7a_M
bernard ross Said:
As you can see he had a Jewih father that allowed him to live here under the Law of return but as a christian there is an option to reject so he must have had pull…
When and if a Messiah shows up I’ll wager it will be long after he has departed this life on earth.
yamit82 Said:
Looks like he is hedging his bets
I wonder if he is going to get a surprise when the Messiah comes 😛
honeybee Said:
He was referring to outer beauty.
souls you got me, 🙁
Mood ???????
Guy has to know when to duck and get out of the line of fire.
Then again, he could do everything to tickle her so her mood changes to a purrr.
yamit82 Said:
Skin, soul or mood ???????????????????
honeybee Said:
I can see that but still you got SASS!!! An unbeatable combination of attributes but you forgot beauty. Inner I can see and will guess outer as well. As king Solomon wrote “dark is beautiful”
yamit82 Said:
Cow, camels what the difference, feces is feces. I said feces in deference to dweller.
yamit82 Said:
No,, I wanted to be the good girls who is loved and praised. The Almighty gave me a good IQ, a strong sense of right/wrong and the prickly nature to wrap it all up.
honeybee Said:
What they call a ranch is a bunch of lazy camels sitting around and crapping in the sand,
honeybee Said:
He will be supportive of Israel politically and try to convert as many Jews as he can. Two sides to his coin.
honeybee Said:
I get the feeling you would have done as you pleased without the push. 😉
yamit82 Said:
bernard ross Said:
Guess who is going to get the blame
yamit82 Said:
When I was a girl I was blamed for things I did not do, after a while I didn’t care any more about blame and did as I pleased.
yamit82 Said:
Oh,, the ranch is in Israel, will Rosenberg ride for the brand?
yamit82 Said:
There’s a ranch in Egypt????
@ bernard ross:
Back at the Ranch:
Christian Missionary Joel Rosenberg and Family Make Aliyah
Vice PM Yaalon at Epicenter in the name of Jesus?
yamit82 Said:
I dont buy the figures NOR the “narrative” of non muslim attraction.
yamit82 Said:
Looks like Kerry has a supporter in Israel who agrees with him……..someone who should change his name to LAPDOG
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@ bernard ross:
Meanwhile back at the Ranch:
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yamit82 Said:
the residual effects of Stockholm Syndrome
bernard ross Said:
Jews call being pissed on rain… After awhile they all believe it’s true.
Perhaps a news paper reporter should ask BB, liberman, etc if they believe that Jewish settlement in YS is illegal or illegitimate?
yamit82 Said:
Respect for Jews began with the 67 war when Israel whipped butt.
I have yet to see the FM call in the ambassadors of EU and US and rake them over the coals for the canard and libel of illegal and illegitimate Jewish settlement in YS;
also he makes NO demand for them to honor their internationally binding legal agreements with the Jews to encourage that settlement.
No one asks him why the jews should NOT expect others to honor their agreements?
I submit that most of the trouble stems from this simple action WHICH HAS NEVER TAKEN PLACE!
It appears obvious that the FM, PM GOI DO NOT believe that Jews have those rights or that Jewish settlement in YS is legal.
If they dont believe it then why expect anyone else to believe it?
Did it ever occur to anyone that how the nations treat the Jews and Israel so maliciously is because we allow them to?
They have become accustomed to it and so have we; it’s a classic symbiotic relationship between sadists and masochists.
Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote in his 1946 Reflexions sur la question juive, published two years later in English under the title Anti-Semite and Jew, a work he later admitted to have written without reading one Jewish book. Sartre’s reflections on the “Jewish question” and, in particular, his essentialist (and some might say racist) remarks on the Jewish character have elicited various responses since they were published. Some implicit and some overt, some mild and some passionate. It appears that Sartre has cut the Jews off from their past; he has consciously permitted himself to accept the anti-Semite’s stereotype of the Jew. His disagreement with anti-Semitism reduces itself to arguing that these Jewish traits…are not so bad. Sartre is transformed in the third part of his essay into the antisemite against whom he rails in the first part.
Sartre’s essay, which sought to combat European antisemitism, seems, rather ironically, to have perpetuated a number of its stereotypes, including those of the Jew’s “obstinate sweetness” and passionate hostility to violence, stereotypes that may arguably be seen as the modern equivalent of the. Jew’s alleged effeminacy Since medieval times, and especially in the early modern era, it had been widely asserted that Jewish men menstruate monthly, a charge that has been perceptively interpreted as suggesting implictly that “Jewish males . . . are, in effect, no longer men but women, and the crime of deicide has been punished by castration. Other scholars have linked the charge of male menstruation with the truncated (and thus less virile) phallus of the circumcised Jew.
Nice Jews went like sheep to the gas chambers!! (Yamit82)
Is it a double standard?
could it be ………anti s******m?
this double standard behavior is an insulting slap in the face to ALL Jews.
Because we are only willing to elect anyone that perpetuate our ancestral role of being born victims.
We rush into the arms of known anti-Semites, be that Arafat or Kerry, etc. And failing that, we also rush to feed, provide services here to mortal enemies.
Other countries can give a flying petunia less about what Kerry or his liege say or want.
“The situation cannot remain unchanged.”
No one says that about any other conflict; there is no great urgency or hurry to address them. Indeed, the international community acts like it has all the time in the world.
Only with Israel, is the rule suddenly different. Israel has to give to a gang of terrorists who butcher Jewish babies for sport a state right now and this very second or the Middle East will explode.
Of course, it makes no sense whatsoever. But for people fixated on the notion that Israel can somehow magically lay every conflict to rest by gracefully committing national suicide, its a fata morgana they simply cannot resist.
As always, when it comes to the Middle East, the West’s treatment of the Jewish State has nothing to do with the facts, truth, fairness or justice.
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Just about everything Israel does is criticized – including exercising the country’s right to self-defense. This does not happen to other states. While Israel is still being condemned even when the country has done nothing wrong, its enemies are silent on many other real crimes in the world.
When did all those who jumped on the bandwagon of self-righteous criticism of Israel take to the streets to protest against, for example, the mas murder and killings in Syria or to castigate the inhuman and murderous policies of the North Korean dictatorship? Are these crimes – and unlike in the case of Israel, these are really crimes – not worthy of protest by the enlightened citizens of the West especially America????
But why is Israel singled out so unfairly and so ruthlessly among the nations of the world? Is it because Israeli motorists on the road use the horn more often than the turn signal? Or that Israelis almost never wear a suit and tie? Or is it perhaps because — yes, yes, I know, the suspicion is terrible — that Israelis (at least the ones who are the targets of criticism) are Jews?