Israel’s latest round of angry condemnations of Secretary of State John Kerry is provoking an unusually terse backlash from administration officials, who warn that Israel is risking its relationship with the US with such tantrums.
At their daily press briefing, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki went into considerable detail about the Israeli “misinformation” campaign against Kerry, saying it wasn’t the sort of thing allies are supposed to do to each other.
Far from the so-called “Kerry plan” being a huge series of concessions to Hamas, Psaki insisted the plan was materially unchanged from the Egyptian proposal, which Israel had publicly agreed to just 10 days prior.
Israel objected to the ceasefire plan not giving them permission to keep attacking Gaza tunnels, nor imposing a full “demilitarization” on the Gaza Strip, but neither of those were included in the Egypt plan either.
The Egypt plan died on the vine because after Israel accepted it, Hamas noted no one ever even presented them with it, and they read about it in the media. Yet now it seems Israel has a problem with the plan, because as they continue to escalate the conflict, they want more and more.
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Instead of a ceasefire, it should be sanctions that the US is imposing on Israel as well as the cessation of all US financial and military aid. Then the Israelis might come to the table…nah, never happen.
Even if Bibi had bit*h slap Kerry it would be business usual, when all of this was taking place Obama was on the phone to Bibi, and what did he say; ” we reaffirmed your God giving right to defend yourselves and the American support will continue.”
Israel just wants the whole world to kiss its ass. All day, every day. And send money. The special relationship needs to END. With friends like this, a thousand leeches would be more beneficial in the long run. At least, a leech can be removed with relative ease. Zion$t$ ? Worse than barnacles. The U$ leaders need to grow collective backbones, and that's a tall order, I know, but not impossible. We are no longer "great" and "Our" so called "white hats" are blood red. Heroes at this moment we are not, but Netanyahu has a Svengali like hold over men and women who ought to know better.
The Israelis always "want more and more." They often get it too. That seems to work for them, so they keep doing it.