Kerry butthurt over Israeli criticism

I guess that John Kerry and the State Department are unhappy that Israelis can think for themselves and they know a bad deal when they see one, according to the Associated Press;

“Israel has no better friend, no stronger defender than John Kerry,” said Tony Blinken, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser. He said the criticism of Kerry was based on “people leaking things that are either misinformed or attempting to misinform.”

Pfft. The US has better friends than John Kerry, FFS.

In trying to implement the cease-fire over the weekend, “U.S. Secretary of State of State John Kerry ruined everything,” wrote columnist Ari Shavit in Monday’s Haaretz, Israel’s leading liberal newspaper. “Very senior officials in Jerusalem described the proposal that Kerry put on the table as a ‘strategic terrorist attack.'”

The State Department claims that Kerry only presented a “draft proposal” for a ceasefire and I guess they’re upset that the Israeli government released details of the “draft”. That may be true, but I’m sure that Israel is busy destroying tunnels from Gaza and they don’t want their operations to cease at this particular time. The Egyptians claim to have destroyed more than 1600 tunnels between the Sinai and Gaza while hamas has been more attentive to the border with Israel lately;

Cairo has poured troops into the peninsula to counter a rising insurgency since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year, and its security operation involves the destruction of these tunnels.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which is the main power in Gaza, reportedly uses the tunnels to smuggle arms, food and money into the blockaded coastal enclave.

Even the Washington Post is ripping on Kerry. David Ignatius claims that Kerry has empowered Hamas;

Kerry’s error has been to put so much emphasis on achieving a quick halt to the bloodshed that he has solidified the role of Hamas, the intractable, unpopular Islamist group that leads Gaza, along with the two hard-line Islamist nations that are its key supporters, Qatar and Turkey. In the process, he has undercut not simply the Israelis but also the Egyptians and the Fatah movement that runs the Palestinian Authority, all of which want to see an end to Hamas rule in Gaza.

According to BBC, yesterday, Hamas broke their own unilateral ceasefire hours after it began.

So, this week, Kerry is headed to India to see how bad he can f’up relations with them and their new Prime Minister Narendra Modi. You know, because he did such a bang-up job with the Gaza thing.

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