Jerusalem – Israeli Official: Obama, Not Netanyahu, Blocked 2015 Initiative

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. REUTERS/Menahem Kahana/Pool Jerusalem – It was the Obama administration, and not Israel, that poured cold water on the idea of a wider regional diplomatic process, following a meeting in Aqaba in early 2016 among Israeli, Egyptian, Jordanian and US leaders, a senior Israeli diplomatic official said Tuesday.

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    According to a report Sunday in Haaretz, a meeting among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Egyptian President Fattah Abdel al-Sisi, Jordan’s King Abdullah and former US secretary of state John Kerry took place in late 2015, but did not bear any practical fruit because of Israeli opposition.

    But, according to the senior official, it was US opposition that stymied the process, much as the insistence in incorporating Qatar and Turkey into a cease-fire framework to end Operation Protective Edge in 2014 ended that particular process. The cease-fire went into effect, the official said, only after the US was nudged to the side and an agreement was reached between Israel and Egypt.

    According to the official, the Americans wanted to “dictate terms” that were unacceptable to Israel, apparently meaning that Kerry wanted the parameters he has since laid out as the way forward in the diplomatic process to form the core of this agreement.


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    Sam23
    Sam23
    7 years ago

    Every day more truth comes out on the dog Kerry really was, from the Iran deal to the above story.

    pushkin
    pushkin
    7 years ago

    Obamzer at his best.

    Shimon
    Shimon
    7 years ago

    What a shock!
    As time passes, more information will come out. But ultimately, most American Jews will still vote for theses bastards.

    7 years ago

    Gee, what are hashomer/yonoson, and all the NK haters and obama tuches lickers gonna say now?