[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
returns to Israel next week, seeking to ease tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has denounced the nuclear deal with Iran as a "historic mistake."
Kerry will also travel to Ramallah for talks with Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
as he tries to keep delicate Israeli-Paleostinian peace negotiations on track, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
The Middle East portion of the December 3-6 trip will come after the globetrotting top U.S. diplomat first attends a meeting of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
foreign ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, and then travels to Moldova as well.
"In Chisinau, Secretary Kerry will meet with senior Moldovan officials. He will discuss bilateral issues, as well as Moldova's path toward European integration," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
But the toughest leg will be his return to Israel and the West Bank -- his eighth overnight visit since becoming secretary of state in February.