John Kerry
“We do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically-elected government of an ally.”
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This kind of animosity toward a U.S. president is "certainly unprecedented," an Israeli analyst says.
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Kerry delivered his harshest rebuke of the current Israeli government with just three weeks left as the nation's top diplomat.
Kerry “obsessively dealt with settlements.”
“We cannot, in good conscience, do nothing, and say nothing."
Going further would have been seen as putting his own thumb on the scale, the outgoing secretary of state argued.
“No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology or without proper input,” Secretary of State John Kerry says.