Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a strong reaction to Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East peace speech on Wednesday, calling the Obama administration out for implicit bias against the state of Israel.
In his speech, Kerry said, “If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both.”
The Secretary also claimed that no other administration has done more for the security of Israel than President Obama’s -- a laughable suggestion from the administration that brokered the Iran nuclear deal.
"Like the Security Council resolution that Secretary Kerry advanced in the U.N., his speech tonight was skewed against Israel,” Netanyahu bluntly stated.
The prime minister added that Kerry’s speech was a “great disappointment” that “obsessively dealt with settlements” and didn’t touch at all on “the root of the conflict: Palestinian opposition to a Jewish state in any boundaries.”
"How can you make peace with someone who rejects your very existence?" Netanyahu said.
The prime minister even issued his own meme of sorts against the president on his official Facebook page:
President-elect Donald Trump, considered a “great friend” by Netanyahu, sent a series of encouraging messages to Israelis via Twitter on Wednesday:
In response to Trump’s inclination to use social media, Sec. Kerry said allies of the United States will not be “swayed and intimidated by a tweet.”
Source: Washington Times
