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Kerry tells Israel it better accept the Two State Holy Grail or it will get more of the recent terrorism.

By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published:

October 29th, 2015

Source: The Jewish Press » » ‘Unify Syria, Divide Israel’ Says Kerry in Major Middle East Policy Address

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Oct. 28, 2015.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke about U.S. Policy Towards the Middle East on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Kerry touched on many topics during his hour-long talk, including the Nuclear Iran Deal, ISIS, the war in Syria and, of course, the Arab-Israeli conflict.

GENESIS OF ISIS

Kerry claimed that ISIS – which is apparently now to be known in U.S. Diplo-talk as Daesh – arose out of the chaos during the early days of the Syrian Revolution, when poor, disillusioned Syrians were protesting in the streets because they just wanted jobs and a future.

But Bassar al-Assad’s thugs, Kerry explained, beat up those young people. Then the parents of the young people went out in the streets to clash with Assad’s thugs, who in turn used bullets and bombs on the protesting parents.

“Having made peaceful change impossible, Assad made war inevitable,” Kerry said. And then Assad turned to Hezbollah for help, and then to Iran and Russia, and this exacerbated tensions between Sunni and Shiite communities, and this paved the way for Daesh.

Kerry made clear the U.S. is not pleased with Russia’s role so far in the conflict, because instead of fighting ISIS, Russian airstrikes have been targeting Assad’s enemies.

But Kerry is committed to a political solution to the crisis – he apparently sees ISIS and the Syrian conflict as the same battle – and believes there must and will be a political transition that sidelines Assad.

Kerry claims that all the participants in the conflict agree that “the status quo is untenable.” Sound familiar?

We all agree that we need to find a way to have a political solution, we all agree that a victory by Daesh or any other terrorist group absolutely has to be prevented. We all agree that it’s imperative to save the state of Syria, and the institutions on which it is built and to preserve a united and secular Syria.

Kerry called on the Russians to get with the program and allow a transition “that will unite the country and will enable this beleaguered country to rehabilitate itself, bring back its citizens, and live in peace.”

That’s all. Not asking much. Just stop the fighting, unite the country, have free and fair elections, and all will be good.

SYRIA MUST BE UNITED; ISRAEL MUST BE DIVIDED

In contrast to Kerry’s insistence that Syria – a factionalized country with various warring ethnic groups none of which want to be controlled by the other – be united, Kerry’s diktat for Israel is the opposite.

Although Israel has gained territory repeatedly as the result of wars waged against it by belligerent outsiders, and which since the fall of the Ottoman Empire has never been ruled by any other nations, the U.S. demands that Israel must be divided.

STATUS QUO ON TEMPLE MOUNT GOOD; STATUS QUO IN ISRAEL BAD

And Kerry continued to insist that the status quo must be maintained on the Temple Mount – a status quo which prevents Jews from moving their lips lest they be deemed praying – but the status quo in which Israel does its best to defend its citizens must be terminated.

When not pointedly referring to Har Habayit, Kerry insisted that “the current situation is simply not sustainable. President Obama has said it publicly many times, I’ve said it publicly and it is absolutely vital for Israel to take steps that empower Palestinian leaders to improve economic opportunities and the quality of life for their people on a day to day basis.”

Really? Israel has to empower the leaders of the terrorists so that economic opportunities and their quality of life is improved? The PA, one of the single largest recipients of international aid ever?

And, of course, there was the inevitable call for the Two State Holy Grail.

“A two state solution with strong security protection remains the only viable alternative. And for anybody who thinks otherwise, you can measure what unitary looks like by just looking at what’s been going on in the last weeks.”

Sounds like a threat, doesn’t it? You’ll just be getting more terrorism unless you hand over territory – not just any territory – but parts of Jersualem, including the Old City – to the Arabs. That’s what you’ll get and that’s what you’ll deserve.

Kerry also called on both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leader of the PA Mahmoud Abbas to display “firm and creative leadership.” He specifically called on the Palestinian Arab leaders to “cease the incitement of violence and to offer something more than rhetoric.”

Abbas, apparently, was not listening.

ABBAS DEMANDS UNSC PROTECTION FROM ISRAEL

Meanwhile, just as Kerry continued repeating his mantra that Netanyahu and Abbas must do everything possible to cease the incitement, Abbas also gave a major policy address.

The leader of the Palestinian Authority, currently in the 11th year of his four year term, spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Council. In his speech, Abbas claimed that the PA needs the U.N.’s protection from Israel.

No joke.

After a month of grotesquely brutal attacks by Palestinian Arabs on innocent Israeli Jews, the leader of the PA was asking for protection from Israel. And no one laughed.

Abbas had sought the special session from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The UNSC convened specifically in response to that request, “a courtesy never previously shown to a United Nations observer state,” according to the New York Times.

Abbas urged the UNSC to establish “a special regime of international protection” for his people. Protection from themselves? Protection from their enduring propensity to destroy any opportunity for a good life for themselves and their progeny?  Protection while they stab Jews, so they can continue stabbing without interference from Jewish policemen or Jewish bystanders trying to prevent the slaughter?

Abbas wasn’t saying.

What he did say is that his people need protection, and they look to the U.N. to provide it.

Abbas was strongly condemned by Eviatar Manor, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N.

Manor said the address by Abbas was yet another example of incitement, and he also rebuked the UNSC for convening the “scandalous special meeting” which was used as a prop to further fan “the flames of conflict.”

But over at the State Department Daily Press Briefing, the spokesperson absolutely refused to condemn the speech by Abbas. Brad Klapper of the Associated Press asked State Dept. Spokesperson John Kirby whether he felt the “tenor of the speech was consistent with the kind of the approach you’re looking for from him right now:”

AP’S KLAPPER: Are you happy with the message? That would be the basic question.

MR KIRBY: I think what I would say, what we want to continue to see – what we want to see is words and deeds that do not do anything to escalate the tensions and actually can contribute to calm, and I think I’d leave it at that.
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