by Alan M. Dershowitz • December 29, 2016 at 2:30
pm
What if the Secretary of State gave a policy speech and no one
cared? Because Secretary Kerry's speech came after its abstention
on the Security Council vote, few in Israel will pay any attention to
anything he said. Had the speech came before the abstention, there
would have been some possibility of it influencing the debate within
Israel. But following the U.S. abstention, Kerry has lost all credibility
with Israelis across the political spectrum.
This is why his speech wasn't even aired live on Israeli TV.
The speech itself was as one-sided as the abstention. It failed to
mention the repeated offers from Israel to end the occupation and
settlements, and to create a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza:
Arafat's rejection of the Clinton-Barak proposals in 2000-2001: and
Abbas' failure to respond to the Olmert offer in 2008. To fail to mention
these important points is to demonstrate the bias of the speaker.
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