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Posted on March 3, 2014 by JNS.org.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer. Credit: U.S. Congress.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer. Credit: U.S. Congress.
(JNS.org) Without mentioning Secretary of State John Kerry by name, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) apparently took a shot at comments on boycotts of Israel that Kerry made last month in Germany.
Those with even with the best of intentions who warn Israel that it will face increased boycotts if it does not reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians have it all wrong, Schumer said at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
Those quote unquote friends [of Israel] should be condemning the boycotts in any possible way, weakening them, Schumer said.
Schumers remarks come after Kerry in February at the Munich Security Conference said in connection with the outcome of U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations, There are talks of boycotts [of Israel] and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that? President Barack Obama, asked by Bloomberg View columnist Jeffrey Goldberg if he agreed with Kerrys assessment on boycotts and if the current talks present the last chance for peace, said in comments published Sunday that Kerry has been simply stating what observers inside of Israel and outside of Israel recognize, which is that with each successive year, the window is closing for a peace deal that both the Israelis can accept and the Palestinians can accept.
Obama also said, If you see no peace deal and continued aggressive settlement constructionand we have seen more aggressive settlement construction over the last couple years than weve seen in a very long time... If Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the international fallout [for Israel] is going to be limited.
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)He's a pretty nasty character on subjects such as this.
cali
(114,904 posts)I can't stand him- and not just on this issue.