Why does John Kerry keep harping on non-facts?
A s if the betrayal of Israel by the United States in the recent Security Council vote weren’t enough President Obama took the additional step of sending Secretary of State John Kerry to throw fuel on the fire. Secretary Kerry’s speech was supposed to be a final summary of the foreign policy he conducted — albeit with little success — during his tenure. Yet the entire speech focused on Israel.
What did we do to deserve this dubious honor? Evidently Kerry views us as the problem in the world. We are responsible for all the ills of mankind. Indeed his speech was not only provokingly biased in favor of the Palestinians from beginning to end (with a few lines of lip service to the condemnation of terrorism) it was also repellent full of falsehoods and purposely oblivious of the facts on the ground. It was a repugnant speech for it tried once again to sell the moldy old message that the whole world order has been undermined by the “illegal settlements” in Judea and Samaria.
According to Kerry the slaughter of half a million civilians men women and children in Syria’s bloody civil war is all due to… you guessed it: the settlements. ISIS is rampaging all over the world and can you guess why? Name the problem and Kerry will name the cause apparently the only word he knows: the settlements. In his exasperating speech he demanded that Israel retreat to its 1967 borders. We are to abandon “occupied” East Jerusalem and return it to the Palestinians including the Western Wall which also belongs to them. Prime Minister Netanyahu wryly commented that apparently when Yehudah HaMaccabi took Jerusalem and purified the Temple he was actually taking over Palestinian territory.
Such is the astounding ignorance of Jewish history and the history of Jerusalem in particular that Mr. Kerry displayed. It was a speech full of falsehood for it deliberately ignored the fact that generations of Jews lived in Hebron until one Shabbos morning in August 1929 when the Palestinians got up and massacred them. It deliberately ignored the fact that there have been periods in Jerusalem’s history when Jews formed the majority of the Old City’s population until 1948 when the Jordanian Legion conquered the Jewish Quarter exiled the inhabitants and destroyed the synagogues. Gush Etzion suffered a similar fate when its flourishing settlements were cut down by Arab rioters with the aid of the Jordanian Legion which took over all of Judea and Samaria and held it for the 19 years between 1948 and 1967. So who in this scenario is the occupier?
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