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Netanyahu: Kerry's speech 'biased' against Israel, obsessive about settlements Netanyahu: Kerry's speech 'biased' against Israel, obsessive about settlements
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the speech of the US State Secretary John Kerry as "biased" and added that the US top diplomat completely ignored the deep roots of the conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced a speech by US State Secretary John Kerry as "biased" and added that the US top diplomat completely ignored the deep roots of the conflict.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW Kerry dealt "obsessively" with the issue of the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, Netanyahu said in a statement, calling his speech anti-Israeli.
"Like the Security Council resolution that Secretary Kerry advanced in the UN, his speech tonight was skewed against Israel," the statement reads, as cited by Reuters.
He went on to say that Kerry almost completely ignored the root of the conflict that, according to the Israeli PM, consisted in the Palestinian opposition to the very existence of the Jewish state within any borders.
In his speech earlier Wednesday, Kerry said that the “two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
He also defended the Obama administration’s record regarding Israel, saying: “No American administration has done more for Israel’s security than Barack Obama’s… More than half of our entire global foreign military financing goes to Israel.”
“If Israel goes down the one-state path, it will never have true peace with the rest of the Arab world,” Kerry added.
The war of words follows the ratcheting up of tensions between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama’s administration. The US has refused to veto a UN resolution that urged Israel to stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
It was the first resolution passed by the UN Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in almost eight years.
Before Kerry’s speech, President-elect Donald Trump sent a series of tweets urging Israel to “stay strong” and saying, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.”