Kerry’s Israeli speech — back to the past
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Secretary of State John Kerry.
By Padraig O’ Malley
If you lived in the Middle East in 2013, when John Kerry succeeded in bringing the Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table, you knew the talks were going to go nowhere. All you had to do was to talk to an Israeli Jew in Jerusalem, or a Palestinian in Ramallah or Gaza, and you knew the jig was up before negotiators had even taken their seats at the table.
And of course, the talks did collapse. Now, some three years later, in the final days of the Obama administration, Kerry once again leaps into the valley of futility. Earlier this week, he outlined a set of principles the United States believes should serve as guidelines for negotiations. The reaction? Uproar in Israel; smug gloating in the Palestinian Autho...