ZOA: Kerry’s Anti-Israel Speech Filled with Lies – Proposal of Hamas/PA Terror State Endangers Israel

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech today essentially was a proposal for a Hamas-Fatah-Iranian-Palestinian-Arab terrorist state, which divides Jerusalem in two, forcibly evicts Jews from their homeland, and requires Israel’s retreat to indefensible borders. His speech was filled with anti-Israel vitriol and falsehoods. Neither the U.S. nor Israel nor any of our allies would benefit from establishing another Iranian or Iraqi or Libyan or Syrian-style state in the Middle East – and that is exactly what Kerry’s proposal entails.  Kerry’s proposal endangers Israel’s safety and security – and would reward the Palestinian Authority (“PA”)/PLO for promoting the murder of Jews, honoring murderers of Jews, and paying pensions to families of murderers of Jews.

Kerry also called for easing the Gaza weapons blockade, which he called “restrictions” on Gaza.  This would enable Hamas to bring in more military equipment, further gravely endangering Israel’s citizens.

In the course of his speech, Kerry repeatedly ignored or twisted reality and/or blatantly lied.

Although Kerry threw Israel a few “bones” – such as speaking about the PA’s incitement of terrorism and naming of public squares after terrorists, Kerry engaged in the false “moral equivalence” of equating Jews living in their homes to the PA’s promotion of terrorism and murder.  And Kerry’s attacks were mainly reserved for Israelis who dare to live in their own millennia-old homeland in Judea/Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.

Despite Israel’s willingness to negotiate and the Palestinian’s refusals, Kerry blamed the Israelis and the Palestinians “equally” for the lack of peace.

Kerry ignored that the PA/PLO rejected offers of statehood in 2000-01 and in 2008 and refused to negotiate with Israel for the past seven years, proving that the issue is Israel’s existence – and not a Palestinian state or Jews living in their old city in eastern Jerusalem and Judea/Samaria.   Despite Israel’s willingness to negotiate and the Palestinian’s refusals, Kerry blamed the Israelis and the Palestinians “equally” for the lack of peace.

Kerry also ignored the diplomatic terrorism carried on by the Hamas-Abbas alliance, which also proves that the Palestinian Authority’s intention is murdering Jews and destroying Israel.

Kerry promoted “justice ” and compensation for Palestinian-Arab “refugees’ – of which there are only about 30,000 remaining. – but Kerry ignored the almost one million Jewish refugees who were forced out of their homes and businesses in Arab countries when the Arabs invaded the newly-reestablished State of Israel in 1948.

Kerry also blatantly lied that the Obama administration has supported Israel regarding Iron Dome and BDS (anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions), etc.  In fact, the Obama administration repeatedly attempted to cut funding to Iron Dome.  Congress restored the funding cut by Obama.  The Obama administration invoked anti-Semitic labeling restrictions, and frequently issued statements (like UNSC Res. 2334) that promote BDS.

Kerry castigated Israel for its security checkpoints – ignoring the fact that the only reason that checkpoints exist is the existence of continual Arab terrorism against innocent Israelis.  If there were no Arab terrorists, there would be no checkpoints.   The U.S. has checkpoints in every airport.  If there was no Islamist terrorism, there would no checkpoints in Israel or in airports around the world.

Kerry also promoted that each side should adopt his proposals “without waiting for the other side.”  Thus, Kerry would have Israel endanger its citizens’ lives by removing checkpoints, without waiting for PA/PLO/Hamas knife and car ramming attacks on innocent Israelis to end.

While Kerry acknowledged that Hamas wants “one (Palestinian Arab) state, Kerry ignored the fact that the PA/PLO/Fatah has repeatedly proven that they also want one Palestinian Arab state that replaces all of Israel.  PA/PLO/Fatah maps, stamps, official emblems and textbooks all show no Israel and a “Palestinian state” that encompasses the entire land of Israel.  The PA/PLO Fatah repeatedly calls the re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 the “first occupation,” and the lands that Israel regained while defending herself in the 1967 war, the “second occupation.” PA leader Abbas at the UN has condemned Israel’s occupation since 1948!

Much of Kerry’s argument against settlements (which he admitted are only located on a tiny portion of Judea/Samaria) was based on Kerry’s baldly-stated false premise that a Palestinian Arab state must be “contiguous” to be viable.  Kerry ignored the fact there are many countries throughout the world that have non-contiguous enclaves and exclaves, which are perfectly viable (including Russia, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Malawi, India and Bangladesh, to name a few).

Kerry also ignored that a “contiguous” Palestinian-Arab state would cut Israel in two, resulting in a non-contiguous indefensible Israel.

Despite admitting that settlements are on only a small percentage of Judea/Samaria, and that 99% of the Palestinian Arabs live in the areas under the PA’s or Hamas’ authority, Kerry falsely depicted settlement growth, which is almost all within existing Jewish towns borders, as the problem.

Kerry also falsely acted like UNSC Resolution 2334 passed last week was not of any serious consequence, or any different from prior anti-Israel resolutions.   Kerry ignored that Resolution 2334 declares that the Jewish quarter, Temple Mount, and Western wall are now “occupied Arab land” and that makes 700,000 Jews living in the Jewish homeland into pariahs (or even criminals) who are living there illegally. Prior resolutions calling for a “freeze” of “settlements” did not say that the “settlements” were on Arab land.

Resolution 2334 also called for dividing Jerusalem.   And now, in his speech, Kerry publicly proclaimed that he too wants to divide Jerusalem in two.

Kerry also praised the Arab Peace Initiative (API).  He ignored that the API requires Israel to make every concession first, and then the Arabs will decide whether to have normalized relations with Israel.   The API also calls for millions of alleged descendants of supposed Arab refugees to move into Israel, in addition to having a Palestinian state.

In sum, Kerry’s speech tossed a few bones to Israel while again stabbing Israel in the back with a proposal that endangers the Jewish state.

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  1. “Concerning the San Remo Convention
    and
    Jewish Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
    Prof. Paul Eidelberg

    On May 15, 1948, the Jewish State was reconstituted in only a tiny portion of the Land of Israel, despite the fact that it was the whole Land of Israel that was originally designated by the Principal Allied Powers at San Remo on April 25, 1920 for Israel’s re-establishment as is separately understood in the Law of Return. A formula was therefore needed to allow for the Jewish State’s expansion from the original boundaries of May 15, 1948 as set out in the UN Partition Plan of November 29, 1947 to eventually encompass the whole of the Land of Israel. That formula was supplied by the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance of September 22, 1948. By this Ordinance, all the parts of the Land of Israel lying outside the State on May 15, 1948 could ultimately be brought inside the borders of the State thereby making the Land of Israel and the State of Israel one unified territory as originally envisaged.

    The Ordinance stipulates an automatic course of procedure once the IDF has conquered an area of the Land of Israel and taken effective possession of it. The Defense Minister must then issue a Proclamation to inform the population of IDF possession, otherwise a legal vacuum will be created in that area. The Proclamation announces not only IDF possession, but more importantly the application of the entire law of the State to, hence Jewish sovereignty over, the possessed area [including all of Judea and Samaria].

    Unless this mechanism of the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance is activated, de facto sovereignty over the area will exist separately or independently from statehood, which is exactly what happened in 1967 in regard to Judea (excluding eastern Jerusalem), Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, and the Golan Heights (until December 14, 1981, when Jewish law was applied to the latter).

    The failure to invoke this law in the past when it was required to be invoked was illegal. The act of ceding back parts of the Land of Israel to a foreign state or entity after they were conquered and effectively possessed by the IDF was and remains illegal under the same law. This obviously and doubly applies to the Golan, to which Jewish law was applied in 1981, as just noted. “

  2. by appointing Hillary and kerry to secretary of state and then giving them his most unpopular policies to tout, he effectively killed their future presidential chances. this is not uncommon, its called “giving a basket to carry water”
    Hillary’s down fall started when Obama had her carry his anti Israel position and now the same with Kerry. Perhaps this is a longer term strategy by Obama’s muslim funders and handlers.
    Both Kerry and Hillary are finished… Schultz was driven out, and now they are talking about a muslim party leader… how is that possible in the midst of a muslim onslaught globally?

    so who is being chosen as the parties next presidential candidate? Also the Jews are further alienated from the party which removes the leash on the muslim and black agenda for the dem party. Perhaps this is really about taking over the dem party.

  3. Perhaps the obama MO, and his using the kerry stooge, was a way to drive Jews from the dem party so the muslims could take it over completely
    president hussein, Hillary and mb handler huma abedin, keith ellison….. looks like a trend here.

  4. Kerry said that Israel (meaning Jews) has a choice between being Jewish or democratic. As if Israel is not and Jews are not democratic. I am Canadian but if I were an American Democrat I would run so fast to join the Republican Party you would choke on the dust I would raise. All those bastards need to do now is put Ellison as head of the DNC and the Democrats can wait for at least a generation to regain power.

  5. The United States is one of those non-contiguous states. As well as France, UK, New Zealand and all the rest of the colonial powers