The collapse of the Israel-Palestine peace talks was immediately followed by Israel declaring the failure entirely the fault of the Palestinians. The blame didn’t stick there, so now the Israeli government is insisting it is entirely Secretary of State John Kerry’s fault.
The talks effectively collapsed two weeks ago, when Israel reneged on the last round of prisoner releases. The initial revision by Israel tried to blame the collapse, as well as the lack of a release, on the Palestinians signing the Geneva Convention, even though that came days later.
The new narrative centers on the idea that the prisoner release was never planned in the first place, despite being widely reported in the Israeli media and openly “cancelled” by the Israeli government last week. Instead, officials claim Kerry made the whole thing up, told the Palestinians it was true, and then the chaos ensued when it didn’t happen.
That claim isn’t particularly credible, but whatever the narrative that eventually sticks, there is one thing Israel seems right about, that there is “zero chance” for any new peace talks any time soon.
The quality of the hasbara coming out of Israel lately shows desperation. If they don't believe that the consensus is rapidly changing in the US then they should just read the comments section of the NYT on the "peace talks" lately. Israel is getting reamed by one and all and the only people that bother to defend it are obvious hasbarists using the same old tired list of talking points. I think Netanyahu hiring israeli college kids for hasbara was a mistake because they are so bad at it and their rage and racism bleeds through onto the page. In the next few years it may become a liability for political leaders to accept campaign funds from AIPAC at all, and if any local candidates do accept Israeli money I'm going to do my best to make that clear to the voters.
For years I lived a block and a half from Kerry. I did not know him but knew scores of neighbors who did. One opinion, a very common one, of him is that he is vain and prickly. Vain people ate having their vanity highlighted, as when the convicted child molester Lieberman made the crack about Kerry and a Nobel Peace Prize. Israel is making a big mistake. Kerry has tons of money and nowhere further to go. They cannot hurt him but the reverse is not true. Part of winning is assessing your enemies carefully.
Kerry got away easy this time the Zionist put the Turkish minister to sit on a child`s chair in one of their diplomatic meetings.They are nothing but trouble stay far away from them.
NOW Israel bombing of civilians and group punishments are a war crime and that the Palestinians have observer status it can be prosecuted, NO Security council intervention allowed and in fact that could constitute a further War Crime by the member state!
It's nice that they at least pick a hate-able scapegoat.
Kerry kissed their backsides but he just didn't "do it right".
"It takes a liar to know another liar." Both these guys need to see a shrink.
And when it unfortunately doesn't stick to Kerry,, they will "select" someone else to blame…well, of course, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snoden!
Israel isn't particularly credible. For that matter, neither is the US State Dept. If a spokesperson from either said the sun was going to set in the west, I'd go outside to confirm it first.
There is a chance, but it would require the US to take down Netanyahu in a direct political confrontation that requires Israel to replace its right wing government. It won't happen, but that is the only chance, and in theory it is an option available. When Kerry and Obama don't do that, it is on them, because they could, and should have a long time ago. Like sending people to jail for torture and Iraq, it is backing down from what must be done.
US and EU liberalism idea never been about the rights of people, if that was the case they wouldn’t take people’s right replacing it with austerity arguing that they are saving money, if that was the case they wouldn’t create more of police states, wanting to expend more if their militarism regimes, expending more of people’s money for expansion, decreasing the level of quality in people’s healthcare or shrinking people’s pension, they wouldn’t be the guardians of lazy aristocracies elite whom are wast recepiance of social welfare in Europe, bankers and their illegal gamblers making sure that people are suffering while these elites of vulture capitalism gambling with people’s life’s all over the world, but that’s only their domestics politics, in regard to their international politics, they refuse to understand who is wrong and who is right, in Israel case, they are blind by their nativity lack of intelligent understanding that Israel is the source of people’s suffering in Middle East, that they have created a monster which they themselves have no clue what to do with it, as they don’t know what to do at home. For liberals, a “perfect” democracy is when fascism, hooligans and mercenaries of all kind have a place in a “democratic” societies, meanwhile they themselves shouting for less immigrants while engaged in Ukraine promoting their kind of Neo fascism wanting for them to become a new EU member, and in Syria they are engaged by supporting their created barbarians with Saudis and UAE helping to develop the idea since Balkan, Iraq, Libya war and occupation of Afghanistan.
In regard to Israel they simply use their racial profiling, claiming that certain Arabs, Palestinians, are bad but immigrant Europeans-American Jews stealing Palestinians lands are good, that Palestinians need to accept the Israel as a Jewish states, while palestinians lose their national heritage, dignity and national identity as Palestinians. These liberals right wing aristocrats, from Sweden to England to Germany and…., simply have bypassed the word hypocrisy, they simply have bypassed the meaning of the word hypocrites, they have developed to what is Neo fascism.., and if you wait enough, Hillary Clinton will show you.
Guest,
What you refer to as "US Liberals" are actually those money-grubbers who are quite eager to do Israel's bidding as long as there is a buck in it for them. Money is at the top of their totem pole, not philosophy. Several money-hungry "white-trash" politicians fit the bill you describe quite well; the Clintons being the prime example. They are not hypocrites; they are true believers (in money, that is). And remember, Kerry married into money. He can't be hard-up; maybe he is just stupid.
If only Obama, Kerry and the USG had a semblance of internal fortitude ("GUTS") to stop supporting the rogue nation of Isreal in spite of Isreal's actions being harmful not only to the American People but to the whole world this madness will soon stop.
Pure projectionism on Israel's part. Note how they blame everyone but themselves for the failure of the "peace" talks. The truth is Israel doesn't want peace.