Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply criticized US Secretary of State
John Kerry Sunday for threatening Israel with boycotts if peace talks
fail. "Attempts to impose a boycott on the State of Israel are
immoral and unjust," Netanyahu stated, at the opening of his
weekly cabinet meeting. "Moreover, they will not achieve their
goal.
First,
they cause the Palestinians to adhere to their intransigent positions
and thus push peace further away.
Second,
no pressure will cause me to concede the vital interests of the State
of Israel, especially the security of Israel's citizens. "For
both of these reasons, threats to boycott the State of Israel will
not achieve their goal," Netanyahu concluded.
The
public's outcry over the plan has been long and loud, with ongoing
protests against the plan's preconditions - the release of 106
Palestinian Arab terrorists back into public life - and vigils,
protests, and even mass prayer calls being held against Israel
accepting the Kerry framework.
Outrage
has intensified since the new boycott threat, the second time Kerry
has been known to orchestrate boycotts against Israel - despite being
an ally. Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon responded to Kerry's
threats of boycotts, saying
"We
respect Secretary of State Kerry but will not hold talks with a gun
to our head. Friends don't put ultimatums on the security of the
state of Israel." "We will make decisions that guard the
interests of the state of Israel," Danon continued.
"If
we made choices based on the various forecasts of boycotts, we
wouldn't be here today. In the past we saw that wherever the IDF
wasn't present terror takes root."
Sometimes,
even the US eats its words. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki
took to Twitter Sunday to defend the remarks of US Secretary of State
John Kerry, who threatened Israel with boycotts if peace talks fail.
"Today’s
status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent,
cannot be maintained. It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary,"
Kerry stated on Saturday night at the Munich Security Conference.
"You see for Israel there’s an increasing de-legitimization
campaign that has been building up [. . .] there are talk of boycotts
and other kinds of things. Are
we all going to be better with all of that?"
Kerry's comments
were widely perceived as threats by not only the media, but the
Israeli government. Both Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon and
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply criticized Kerry's
comments.
Source: Arutz
Sheva
My
comments:
The
godless US attempts to FORCE Israel into a compromised situation
With
the treat of boycotts.
This
is an act of cursing Israel and will bring a curse upon the US.
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