Zionist Israeli minister apologizes for zionist Kerry diatribe

Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Yaalon has apologized for his comments about US Secretary of State John Kerry.

On Tuesday, Yaalon disrespectfully criticized Kerry’s efforts to broker an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, calling his ideas on the so-called peace plan unworthy and obsessive. Afterwards, Washington reacted angrily.

On Tuesday evening, Yaalon issued a statement in which he apologized to Kerry, saying that he had no intention to cause any offense to the United States’ top diplomat.

“Israel and the United States share a common goal to advance the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians led by Secretary Kerry. We appreciate Secretary Kerry’s many efforts towards that end,” the statement said.

The minister “had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if the secretary was offended by words attributed to the minister,” it added.

Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney said Yaalon’s remarks “are offensive and inappropriate, especially in the light of everything Secretary Kerry is doing to support Israel’s security needs”.

“Secretary Kerry and his team have been working nonstop in their efforts to promote a secure peace for Israel because of the deep concern the United States has and the deep commitment the United States has for and to Israel’s future and the Israeli people,” Carney said.

“To question Secretary Kerry’s motives and distort his proposals is not something we would expect from the… minister of a close ally.”

Meanwhile, a US State Department official demanded Netanyahu publicly disown his minister’s comments.”We expect the prime minister to put this right by expressing publicly his disagreement with the statements against Secretary Kerry.”

Just a week after Kerry’s visit to Israel, Tel Aviv unveiled plans to build another 1,800 new illegal settler units on the occupied Palestinian land.

The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands.