{"id":2616,"date":"2017-06-20T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T11:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:20:59","slug":"yaalon-responds-to-kerry-we-know-exactly-what-we-are-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/yaalon-responds-to-kerry-we-know-exactly-what-we-are-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ya\u2019alon Responds to Kerry: \u2018We Know Exactly What We Are Doing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defense Minister Moshe Ya\u2019alon responded to US Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s accusations that Israel is responsible for stalled peace talks, charging that Kerry\u2019s plans for Israel would endanger its security and were impracticable.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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In an interview with the\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>magazine this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed frustration with the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process and\u00a0placed the blame on Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know exactly what we are doing,\u201d Ya\u2019alon told Israel\u2019s\u00a0IDF Radio<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cI will say this clearly: we do not want to rule over them [the Palestinians] and it is good that they have political independence and that they vote for their own parliament. Between this and [Israel] leaving Judea and Samaria \u2013 then what? It [the Palestinian entity] will be vital \u2013 financially, with infrastructure and even security? If we[the IDF] would not be operating [against Palestinian terrorism] in Jenin and Shechem, Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas] would cease do to so as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret we don\u2019t agree [with the Americans] on everything,\u201d he added. \u201cIf we would have implemented Kerry\u2019s plans for security, which he passed on to us over a year ago \u2013 then there would be\u00a0mortar shells falling on Ben Gurion Airport<\/a>\u00a0today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan blasted Kerry for his lack criticism of the Palestinians for their refusal to negotiate and their terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply regret Kerry\u2019s remarks,\u201d he stated. \u201cI will not begin to ask similar questions about other conflicts occurring across the globe. I think that Kerry would have done better\u00a0if,\u00a0instead of making those statements, he put pressure on the side that\u00a0actually refuses to enter a diplomatic process<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

By: Max Gelber, United with Israel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defense Minister Moshe Ya\u2019alon responded to US Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s accusations that Israel is responsible for stalled peace talks, charging that Kerry\u2019s plans for Israel would endanger its security and were impracticable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-politics","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}