Knesset Member Implies Kerry Guided By Anti-Semitism

[Purveyor]

Moti Yogev says top US diplomat has ‘anti-Israel foundations,’ pressure on Israel has undertones of Jew-hatred

BY LAZAR BERMAN January 30, 2014, 2:16 pm

Jewish Home party MK insinuated on Thursday morning that US Secretary of State John Kerry was at least partially motivated by anti-Semitism in his efforts to forge a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians

“The prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) is maneuvering under the obsessive and unprofessional pressures that might also bear an undertone of anti-Semitism on Kerry’s part,” MK Moti Yogev told Israel Radio.

“He has an anti-Israel foundation in that he does not come to compromise, but instead comes with unequivocal answers about shrinking the Land of Israel and establishing a Palestinian state,” Yogev added. “The members of my faction also think that he is not a fair broker and he is not fit to mediate here because his positions are predetermined.”

Yogev also lambasted Netanyahu in the interview, saying that “there is no circus performer [who can compare to] the prime minister in his maneuverings.”

Earlier in January, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was quoted as making scathing statements about Kerry’s involvement in the peace negotiations, calling him “obsessive” and “messianic,” and describing his West Bank security proposals as worthless. The comments elicited outrage from Washington that led to an apology from the defense minister.

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[DURHAM D]

1. Someone needs to do their homework -

A long obscured branch on John Kerry’s family tree
More Jewish forebears, more tragedy

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/10/12/ten-years-later-revelation-john-kerry-ancestry-has-new-chapter/89pyoQEfOJs8PqvazCYqHO/story.html



and from his wiki entry -

It was discovered in 2003 by Felix Gundacker, a genealogist[59] working with The Boston Globe, that Kerry's paternal grandparents, who had been born Jewish, as "Fritz Kohn" and "Ida Lowe", in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, changed their names to "Frederick and Ida Kerry" from "Kohn" in 1900 and converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism in 1901[60][61] or 1902.[62] Fritz' elder brother Otto had earlier, in 1887[61] or 1896,[59] also embraced Catholicism.

[crazylikafox]

2. Thanks. I didn't know that.

[dsc]

7. well that alone doesn't make him not be anti semetic

He wouldn't be the first person with a Jewish grandparent who was an anti Semite. To take one example, Hitler had a Jewish grand parent. Now that said, the Knesset member is out of his mind, but Kerry Jewish grandmother isn't why.

[Jefferson23]

3. Keep crying wolf, asshole...see how much longer you can sing this pathetic song. n/t

[TheMathieu]

4. Israel would make a better ally.

If they ditched their neocons.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. 86 of the 120 Knesset seats are hard-right parties.

Another 15 are Labour and 2 are Kadima, both of which are hawkish when it comes to the Palestinians.

Only 17 seats are genuinely pro-peace parties.

[MisterP]

5. it's even in our kitchens!

[1000words]

6. A popular tactic

It's done here at DU regularly.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. This is one of the problems of ethnic nationalism

it lets demagogues paint any opposition as motivated by racism.

And "shrink the State of Israel"? No, successive Israeli governments have sought to enlarge it in contravention of international law (which doesn't recognise Israel's occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights).