Kerry speech biased against Tel Aviv: Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says US State Secretary John Kerry’s speech over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was biased against Tel Aviv.

“What he did was he spent most of his speech blaming Israel for the lack of peace,” said Netanyahu following a speech given by Kerry on Wednesday.

He added that during his speech Kerry had dealt “obsessively” with the topic of the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and that “Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.”

“Like the Security Council resolution that Secretary Kerry advanced in the UN, his speech tonight was skewed against Israel,” the Israeli prime minister added.

Earlier in the day, Kerry gave a speech in defense of Washington’s abstention on the resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
“The two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” said Kerry.

“Today, there are a similar number of Jews and Palestinians living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea,” he said.

“They have a choice. They can choose to live together in one state, or they can separate into two states,” Kerry added.

The US secretary of state also said that Netanyahu’s “current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by the most extreme elements.”