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Sending the Wrong Signals
(Wall Street Journal) Aaron David Miller - During a foreign policy discussion at Harvard on Tuesday, Secretary of State Kerry said he would not apportion blame for the outbreak in Israeli-Palestinian violence. Yet he implicitly did precisely that with his comments on "a massive increase in settlements." To credit them publicly as the cause of the current violence endorses and legitimizes Palestinian motives for violence. The writer is a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.