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...
The top US diplomat, after his return from a Middle East trip, infuriated Israeli ministers on Thursday when he said the unresolved conflict was fuelling recruitment for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.
"There wasn't a leader I met... who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Paleostinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation," he said.
Reacting to that, PLO secretary general
Yasser Abed Rabbo... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo.....
said that "linking the fight against terrorism and the end of the Israeli occupation is a strategic position that we support."
The PLO is "ready to work hard with the American administration and all regional leaders to develop mechanisms to implement different levels of the strategic direction announced by Kerry," he said.
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said that "even when a British Moslem beheads a British Christian there will always be someone who blames the Jews."
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf insisted that Kerry "did not make any linkage between Israel and the growth of ISIL (an alternative acronym for the Islamic State group), period."
"If we could achieve peace between the Israelis and Paleostinians, that would create a more stable region writ large," she said.
For his part, Abed Rabbo said "those who criticise Kerry want the terrorism of the Islamic State organization to continue to use it as an excuse to obstruct a political solution and end to the occupation."
"We hope that these balanced American statements will reflect on the Paleostinian resolution in the (UN) Security Council that will be proposed in the coming days" to call for the end of Israel's occupation.