Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Wednesday’s speech by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, calling it biased against the Jewish state. “Secretary Kerry paid lip service to the unremitting campaign of terrorism that has been waged by the Palestinians against the Jewish state for nearly a century,” Netanyahu said. “What he did was to spend most
of his speech blaming Israel for the lack of peace by passionately condemning a policy of enabling Jews to live in their historic homeland and in their eternal capital Jerusalem.” Netanyahu’s remarks followed Kerry’s attempt to justify the U.S.’s decision to allow passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel over settlements in the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank. READ MORE
