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Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about Israeli-Palestinian policy, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the State Department in Washington.
Associated Press
In parting shot, Kerry tears into Israel over settlements

JOSH LEDERMAN reach a peace deal. Israel can either be Jewish ald Trump, who has sided who quarreled repeat-
Associated Press In a farewell speech, Kerry or democratic, it cannot squarely with Israel. The Is- edly over settlements,
MATTHEW DALY laid out a two-state vision be both, and it won’t ever raeli leader faulted Kerry the peace process and
Associated Press for peace that he won’t be really be at peace,” Kerry for obsessing over settle- Obama’s nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec- in office to implement, but said in a speech that ran ments while paying mere with Iran.
retary of State John Kerry that the U.S. hoped might more than an hour, a com- “lip service” to Palestinian Trump, who has assured
tore into Israel on Wednes- be heeded even after prehensive airing of griev- attacks and incitement of Israel it merely needs to
day for settlement-building, President Barack Obama’s ances that have built up in violence. “hang on” until he takes
accusing Prime Minister term ends. He defended the Obama administration “Israelis do not need to be over, told reporters that
Benjamin Netanyahu of Obama’s move last week over eight years but were lectured about the impor- Kerry’s speech spoke for it-
dragging Israel away from to allow the U.N. Security rarely, until this month, dis- tance of peace by foreign self. It was unclear whether
democracy and forcefully Council to declare Israeli cussed publicly. leaders,” Netanyahu said Israel came up in a phone
rejecting the notion that settlements illegal, the Netanyahu pushed back from Jerusalem. call Obama, while vaca-
America had abandoned spark that set off an ex- in a hastily arranged tele- The dueling recriminations tioning in Hawaii, placed
Israel with a controversial traordinary and deepening vised statement in which marked a low point for to Trump on Wednesday
U.N. vote. Netanyahu ac- diplomatic spat between he suggested he was done U.S.-Israel relations, and a morning.
cused the Obama admin- the U.S. and its closest Mid- with the Obama adminis- bitter end to eight years
istration of a biased bid to east ally. tration and ready to deal of frustrated ties between Continued on page 3
blame Israel for failure to “If the choice is one state, with President-elect Don- Obama and Netanyahu,