Kerry’s “apartheid” comment has caused quite a stir.  Hard to believe our top diplomat—and one who represents Israel’s strongest ally—would invoke such a discredited lie. Kerry’s suggestion that an apartheid state is one of two possible futures for Israel suggests not so subtly that it is CURRENTLY an apartheid state. For the hundredth time, Israel has 1.7 million Arab citizens (20% of the total population) and they, along with women, Christians, gays, other minorities etc. live more freely than in ANY country in the Middle East, serving at top levels of government, in the Knesset, in academia, in the professions, in the military, etc. See Freedom House, Who is Free in the Middle East.

Why suggest that anything other than the Kerry-sponsored Two State Solution would change this ? 

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JERUSALEM POST
By Martin Sherman
May 1, 2014

More than exposing his personal prejudices, John Kerry’s recent remarks illustrate how biased against the Jews – i.e. anti-Semitic – the entire discourse on the Palestinian issue has become.

From the outset John Kerry was an ill-advised choice for the position of secretary of state. His history of embarrassing gaffes made his appointment as America’s top diplomat clearly imprudent and inappropriate.

But for some reason, none of these prior lapses unleashed the same maelstrom of rage, reproach and ridicule as his leaked prognosis that, unless it hastens to embrace “the two-state solution,” Israel may become an “apartheid state.”

Kerry has, of course, been responsible for measures far more substantially detrimental to Israel than his facile forecast as to its future – such as the abhorrent release of convicted terrorists as a grotesque gesture to coax the Palestinians to the negotiating table. Yet, somehow it was his brandishing the specter of anticipated apartheid that precipitated an unprecedented assault on his competence and character, and even calls for his resignation Thus in a withering review of Kerry’s performance, acerbically titled, “Kerry challenging Biden for ‘most gaffe-prone’” (April 29), Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin wrote: “When ultra-conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and super-liberal Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) are both blasting you, you know you’ve blown it… In a sense, Kerry’s latest debacle can’t really undermine his standing any further. His buffoon-like gaffes… already have made him the subject of derision.”

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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-fray-Kerry-and-the-A-word-actually-both-A-words-351099