John Kerry to
Deliver Major Address on Israel on Wednesday
by Joel B. Pollak 27 Dec 2016
Outgoing Secretary of State John
Kerry will deliver a speech about Israel
and the Middle East peace process on Wednesday from within the State Department.
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes — President Barack Obama’s alter
ego on controversial international issues, from Benghazi to the Iran deal to
the Cuba “normalization” — told Israel’s Channel 2 (via CNN) that Kerry “will give a speech in which he
lays out a comprehensive vision for how he sees the conflict being resolved.”
The speech comes just days after the passage of UN
Security Council Resolution 2334, which declares the Israeli presence in the
West Bank illegal, and which the Obama administration allowed to pass instead
of exercising its veto. Bloomberg News reports
that Kerry’s speech may be a prelude to a Jan. 15 conference in Paris, where
the international community could seek to announce a “solution” to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which President Obama would try to impose in his
last days in office.
In 2002, UN Ambassador Samantha Power advocated imposing a solution
on Israelis and Palestinians. She backed
away from that position during her confirmation hearings in 2013,
but appears to have reverted to what would seem to be her true ideas.
The Times of Israel reports
that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also anticipates that President
Obama may use the UN Security Council to impose “principles for a Palestinian
state” before he leaves office on January 20 next year.
Last week, Kerry defended the UN vote as necessary “to
preserve the possibility of the two state solution, which every U.S.
administration for decades has agreed is the only way to achieve a just and
lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”
There are no signs of what his speech on Wednesday might
include. Kerry had earlier attempted, controversially, to achieve peace between
the two sides by an arbitrary deadline in the spring 2014; war broke out in
Gaza a few months after his failure.
Benjamin
J. Rhodes
Benjamin J.
Rhodes is the deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a co-author for Without Precedent, and was a special assistant to the president at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars.
Note: Lee H. Hamilton was
the president & director for the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, is a co-author for Without
Precedent, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Cass R. Sunstein
is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
married to Samantha Power.
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, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and Cameron F.
Kerry’s brother.
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), John F. Kerry’s brother, and a senior
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is the lobby firm
for Israel.
David F. Hamilton
was a canvasser for
the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew.
Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now was the plaintiff in ACORN vs. Illinois State Board of Elections.
Barack
Obama was an attorney for the ACORN
vs. Illinois State Board of Elections, an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, and is the president for the Barack Obama administration.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is the lobby firm
for Israel.
Benjamin
Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.
Daniel B. Shapiro
is a U.S. ambassador for Israel, and
was Dianne Feinstein’s legislative
assistant.
Dianne Feinstein’s
legislative assistant was Daniel B.
Shapiro, is a U.S. Senate
senator, and married to Richard C. Blum.
Richard C. Blum
is married to Senator Dianne Feinstein,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at 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), a friend of Shimon
Peres, and a board member for the Friends
of the Israel Defense Forces.
Shimon Peres was a
friend of Haim Saban, and the
president of Israel.
Crown
Family Foundation is a funder for the Friends
of the Israel Defense Forces.
Newton N. Minow
is the president of the Crown Family
Foundation, a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is the lobby firm
for Israel.
Lester
Crown is a VP for the Crown Family
Foundation, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and the founder of Bloomberg
LP.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), a
director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation,
was the chairman & CEO for CNN,
and the chairman for the Broadcasting
Board of Governors.
John
F. Kerry is a governor for
the Broadcasting Board of Governors,
married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, the secretary
at the U.S. Department of State for
the Barack Obama administration, and
Cameron F. Kerry’s brother.
Cameron F. Kerry
is John F. Kerry’s brother, a fellow
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is the lobby firm
for Israel.
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