Israeli Update

Netanyahu Schools Kerry on His Lies About Origin of Recent Terror Attacks

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference to set the record straight about the recent wave of terror attacks that Israel has been experiencing.

 

The Prime Minister took issue with Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent comments that the violence was as a result of building going on in Israeli communities. Kerry told a crowd at Harvard University that, “There’s been a massive increase in settlement over the course of the last years and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing.”

 

Netanyahu challenged Kerry by saying that, “They’re attacking us not because they want peace or don’t want peace. It’s because they don’t want us here [in Israel]. If they’re frustrated, I assure you that frustration will continue because we’re going to continue to be here. As far as settlements are concerned, this is not a result of a ‘massive’ wave of settlements because there’s not been a massive wave of settlements.

 

It is the very killers themselves who explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. They leave behind Facebook pages in which they cite and repeat Palestinian incitement about the al-Aqsa mosque. All the lies that are said about us trying to bring down the mosque or change the status quo, they cite that as the reason for their activity. And you can’t fit a false template on reality. That is what is driving this current wave.

 

CNSNews asked State Department John Kirby to respond to Netanyahu’s statements. His answer was a complete denial of reality: “We’ve never said – the secretary did not say – that settlements were to blame for the current violence. There’s no excuse for terrorism, and as I said earlier, certainly no excuse for the deliberate and intentional taking of innocent life.”

 

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