Last week John Kerry’s peace process moved from its mannerist phase to something else—something very dangerous and destructive. At a State Department reception celebrating the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, Kerry said Israel was responsible for the rise of the Islamic State.

“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL coalition,” said Kerry, “there wasn’t a leader I met with in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt–and I see a lot of heads nodding–they had to respond to.”

Israeli officials, led by Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett, criticized Kerry’s comments: “It turns out that even when a British Muslim beheads a British Christian,” said Bennett, referring to the ISIS fighter with a British accent who murdered British aid worker Alan Henning, “there will always be those who blame the Jews.”….

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