”Hör Israel”

PS I somras besökte Robert Herbst (advokat från New York) som representant för USA ” Jewish Voice for Peace” Sverige för att delta i Kairos – Palestina sommarläger. Robert Herbst till oss deltagare i sommarlägret vidarebefordrat sin reflexion och kommentar på John Kerrys ”banbrytande” avskedstal under rubrik ”HÖR ISRAEL ”

”The most disturbing thing about the landmark speech that Secretary of State John Kerry just delivered is that the American political system is so dysfunctional that the truth could be spoken only after – not before – a national election, in the short period between the end of one Administration and the beginning of another.

Kerry delivered his “candid thoughts” about the Israeli Palestinian conflict in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bitter and provocative criticism of the United States for not vetoing the UN resolution reaffirming the illegality of Israel’s settlement construction and expansion: “Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council.” Kerry’s rejoinder to the Israelis and the American people, publicly before the world, was that “friends need to tell each other the hard truths.”