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December 29, 2016       Share:    

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/kerry-set-to-deliver-farewell-speech-on-middle-east-policy/2016/12/28/69f966be-cd17-11e6-85cd-e66532e35a44_story.html

In Parting Shot, Kerry Tears into Israel over Settlements

(AP-Washington Post) Josh Lederman and Matthew Daly - Secretary of State John Kerry tore into Israel on Wednesday for settlement-building and forcefully rejected the notion that America had abandoned Israel with a controversial UN vote. In a farewell speech, Kerry laid out a two-state vision for peace that he hoped might be heeded even after President Obama's term ends, deviating from the traditional U.S. message that foreign powers shouldn't impose a solution. Most of his speech focused on Israel, and he said the two-state solution was "now in serious jeopardy." Yet he offered fewer details about how to get to such a deal, given the failure of so many previous attempts, including his own nine-month effort that collapsed in 2014.

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