A Whiff of Perfidy: John Kerry's Base Betrayal of Israel

Victor Sharpe / Canada Free Press

The stench of betrayal was evident in the House of Representatives on Thursday, March 13, 2014.

Secretary of State, John Kerry, revealed utter appeasement towards the overwhelmingly Muslim Palestinian Authority and a cavalier dismissal of the legitimate rights of Israel: The Jewish state. With his own words, he can now no longer be regarded as an honest broker in the so-called “peace process.”

Kerry spewed words that are a complete betrayal of promises that both he, and his master in the White House, had previously and repeatedly made to Israel that any final “peace agreement” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would demand and require that Israel be recognized by the PA as a Jewish state.

But Kerry reneged on that solemn promise and undertaking by telling a House Committee that it is a “mistake” to insist that the Palestinian Arabs recognize Israel as the Jewish State.

President Obama, to whom John Kerry reports, had stated last March, 2013, during a visit to Israel and while standing next to Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, that he was urging the Palestinians to recognize the “Jewish state” as part of a peace agreement. He had then said in part:

“But for now, let me just reiterate that a central element of a lasting peace must be a strong and secure Jewish state.”

Some little while before John Kerry mouthed his base betrayal of Israel – America’s most loyal ally – a Palestinian government official had said that Allah would gather the Jews so that Palestinians could slaughter them all. Needless to say, Kerry was mute in the face of that loathsome rant.

John Kerry’s base betrayal of Israel

Nor did he have much, if anything, to say in condemnation of the 100 missiles fired a day earlier at Israeli villages and towns by Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists from Gaza. Predictably, the Palestinian Authority’s, Mahmoud Abbas, condemned Israel’s retaliation to the rocket fire, accusing Israel of a “military escalation.” He did not, however, condemn the rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.
So why is it so fundamental for the Muslim Arab side to finally accept Israel as a Jewish state? And why do they remorselessly refuse to do so?

Well, we need to go back to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, which posited that both Israel and the Palestinian Arabs would fully recognize the legitimacy of each other. During these 21 wasted years since Oslo, the Palestinians have refused to accept the legitimacy of the national rights of the Jewish people.

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