[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] 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...
defied a Federal Aviation Administration ban and flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday in a sign of sheer will to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gazoo Strip despite little evidence of progress in ongoing negotiations aimed at halting fighting that's left at least 31 Israelis and 650 Paleostinians dead.
Kerry's arrival in Israel came as Israeli troops battled Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces of Evil near a southern Gazoo Strip town as dozens of Paleostinian families trapped by the fighting scrambled to flee the area.
It also came as Israel closed the border crossing into Gazoo at Erez "until further notice," citing the heavy fighting.
Kerry planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
during what appeared to be a crucial day in the flailing talks.
Kerry reported some progress, reports the Rooters news agency, which quotes him as saying soon after he got to Jerusalem for a meeting with Ban,"We have certainly made some steps forward. There is still work to be done."
Kerry flew to Tel Aviv from Cairo, where he met Tuesday with Egypt's president and other high-level officials.