Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called out Secretary of State John Kerry for his Middle East peace speech, which blasted Israel, Wednesday, arguing the message made matters worse by “emboldening” Israelis and Palestinians.
“While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” Schumer said in a Wednesday statement, per The Hill. “This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember.”
In his lengthy speech, which was dubbed a “lecture” against Israel by many viewers, Kerry chastised the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East for not more actively seeking a two-state solution with Palestine.
“While he may not have intended it,” Schumer said, “I fear Secretary Kerry, in his speech and action at the [United Nations], has emboldened extremists on both sides.”
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“While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel,” Schumer said in a Wednesday statement, per The Hill. “This is something that people of all political stripes in Israel vividly remember.”
In his lengthy speech, which was dubbed a “lecture” against Israel by many viewers, Kerry chastised the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East for not more actively seeking a two-state solution with Palestine.
“While he may not have intended it,” Schumer said, “I fear Secretary Kerry, in his speech and action at the [United Nations], has emboldened extremists on both sides.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/1...errys-israel-speech-he-emboldened-extremists/