Israeli settlers group the Yesha Council has kicked off its official “Don’t Surrender to Kerry” campaign, urging Israelis and their political leadership not to reach any deal on Palestinian statehood.
The campaign includes media spots, banners, and organized public protests against peace talks, saying that reaching a deal amounts to “surrendering Israel’s security and national interests to John Kerry.”
The campaign is an extension of an early anti-Kerry campaign by the Yesha Council, which included videos of an actor portraying the US Secretary of State advising Israelis to use porcupines instead of toilet paper.
While the more moderate portions of Israel’s far-right coalition have tried to continue to notion that a peace process is being worked on, much of the coalition is openly averse to the very idea of peace, and politically influential settlers groups like this are the reason why.
What would any intelligent person expect? Voluntary return of stolen land?
All ten trips to Israel last year by Kerry was just to assure Netanyahu that the US supports his settlement expansions…… What a waste.
I think most of this is pure bullshit!
It is time for Kerry to bring a one state solution front and center, and give Israel a taste of how we treated the Jim Crow South.
"Our American friends," Moshe Dayan said, "offer us money, weapons, and advice. We take the money, we take the weapons, and we decline the advice."
Moshe Yaalon: "The only thing that can save us is if Kerry wins the Nobel prize and leaves us alone."
The US should take our money, weapons, advice, and UN veto, and leave Israel alone.