TIMES OF ISRAEL
What John Kerry should have told the Saban Forum
by David Horovitz
December 7, 2015

My friends, I can only begin with an apology. The Obama administration, and myself personally, invested extraordinary efforts in trying to foster Israeli-Palestinian peace. And we failed. The failure is by no means ours alone. But we made mistakes. Too many. We should have known better. We could have done better. This prestigious forum has become a place to speak candidly. A place for friends to air their criticisms in a constructive atmosphere. It would be wrong of me, therefore, to start with anything other than an honest acknowledgement of where we went wrong, some self-criticism, if only in the hope that my experiences can help ensure that my successors’ efforts meet with more success. We can’t come to a forum like this, we can’t have meetings under the norms of diplomacy, and pretend.[IMHO Horovitz is off base on Bibi, ignoring his settlement freeze which was ignored by the PA] READ MORE