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July 17, 2014

Thanks, But No Thanks

SecState Lurch was politely, but firmly and repeatedly, advised that his presence at any peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel was not needed.
Secretary of State John Kerry offered numerous times to fly to Cairo or Jerusalem to assist in cease-fire negotiations but was told that the sides “didn’t need American mediation,” according to an account of events by Haaretz.

Senior Israeli officials told Haaretz that Kerry offered to come to directly join the talks in each and every call during the attempted brokering of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas on Monday, but was “politely rejected” by all sides.
Story here and here.

6 comments:

Doom said...

That'll leave a mark. Kerry doesn't care, more time for windsurfing or yoga. One more dem admin and America won't be invited to soccer games. While a good thing, soccer being what it is. No invitation to even that is a bad thing.

Funny? Liberals are all about reaching out, internationally. But they are so inept at it that they are actually bringing about isolationism. Majority isolationism is a good thing, if it's handled well. This isn't being handled well. This is more like exclusion. Oh well.

Then again a full out war between Hamas, or even muslim nations around Israel, and Israel, is better than what Kerry and ilk would establish. There is that.

Fredd said...

Doom is of course right. Didn't Kerry and his ilk recommend 'land for peace?' That was wildly successful. Not.

A full blown war between Israel and nearby Muslim nations would actually help the situation, assuming Israel press the war to its conclusion: unconditional surrender from all its enemies or face annihilation.

sig94 said...

Doom - So the Jews and Arabs are now Gaza-boating Kerry, eh? Maybe someone can give him some more faux medals so he can throw them against the Wailing Wall. That'll fix things...

sig94 said...

Fredd - I still maintain that Israel did not learn anything from the initial Canaan invasion of 1400 BC. They need to drive those people out. Nearly 1 million Jews were expelled from Arab lands after 1947. If Israel had responded in kind they would be in a much better security position right now.

Gorges Smythe said...

The world knows Kerry and his boss are dingle-berries, whether America does or not.

Kid said...

Outstanding, I hope they insulted that POS as well in the process.