Report: Kerry threatening Israel with
sanctions
Pressing Netanyahu to give up
crucial land
Published: 11/06/2013 at 8:22 PM
JERUSALEM – Is Secretary of
State John Kerry using the threat of tougher European Union sanctions on Israel
to press Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu into land concessions with the Palestinians?
Kerry is in the Israel in an effort to advance negotiations
between the Jewish state and the Palestinian Authority.
Last August, WND was first to
report the Obama administration is working behind the scenes in tandem with the
EU’s boycott of Israeli settlements, tying the seriousness of the EU’s future
ban to Israel’s
actions during current U.S.-brokered talks with the Palestinians, according to
a senior Palestinian negotiator.
The negotiator claimed at the time
that if Israel
does not collaborate with the current round of Palestinian talks being brokered
by Kerry, the EU financial sanctions could become tougher.
The threat has been communicated
to Israeli officials, according to the Palestinian negotiator.
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Now Israel’s
largest newspaper, Yedioth Aharonot, has reported that Kerry is using the EU
sanctions to blackmail Israel
into complying with talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state that would
include the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
The newspaper claimed that Kerry
“told the prime minister that he heard from his European friends … that if the
negotiations fail, Israel
can forget about participating in the European research and development program
‘Horizon 2020.’
“And that will only be the
beginning. … More and far weightier actions to boycott Israel will follow. They are
already being prepared. This will cause incalculable damage to the Israeli
economy.”
In July, the EU published
guidelines that deny EU funds in the form of grants, prizes and financial
instruments from going toward any Jewish entities in the West Bank, Gaza Strip,
Golan Heights or eastern Jerusalem.
The guidelines, slated to go into
effect in January, further require any future Israeli-EU financial agreements
to include a clause stipulating that the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem
and the Golan Heights are not actually part of Israel.
A senior Palestinian negotiator
helping to lead the current Israeli-Palestinian talks told WND in August that
the EU guidelines were published in full coordination with Kerry.
The negotiator further claimed
that if Israel
fails to cooperate with Palestinian talks being brokered by Kerry, the EU
financial sanctions could become tougher.
Possible further boycotts being
considered, the negotiator stated, include an official statement from EU that
settlements are illegal; a full financial boycott; and sanctions on all trade,
universities and Jewish entities in the settlements.
Another possibility is an EU
dictate requiring special visas for settlers.
On the other hand, if Israel
goes along with Kerry’s peace plan, the EU will reconsider its current and
future settlement boycott, the Palestinian negotiator stated.
John Kerry
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
Note: Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy was a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Martin S. Indyk
is a founding director at the Saban
Center for Middle East Policy, a director at the New Israel Fund, was a U.S.
ambassador for Israel,
and the VP & director of the Foreign Policy Program for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Haim
Saban is a benefactor for the Saban
Center for Middle East Policy, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
a friend of Shimon Peres.
Shimon
Peres is a friend of Haim Saban,
and the president of Israel.
Benjamin
Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
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Members Directory
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members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John F. Kerry is married
to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and the
secretary
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