Mideast Ally: Security Council and Obama Administration

mideast ally: In a farewell speech, Kerry laid out a two-state vision for peace that he won't be in office to implement, but that the U.S. hoped might be heeded even after President Barack Obama's term ends, according to The Waterloo Record. He defended Obama's move last week to allow the UN Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal, the spark that set off an extraordinary and deepening diplomatic spat between the U.S. and its closest Mideast ally. Netanyahu accused the Obama administration of a biased bid to blame Israel for failure to reach a peace deal. If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace, Kerry said in a speech that ran more than an hour, a comprehensive airing of grievances that have built up in the Obama administration over eight years but were rarely, until this month, discussed publicly. The Israeli leader faulted Kerry for obsessing over settlements while paying mere lip service to Palestinian attacks and incitement of violence. Netanyahu pushed back in a hastily arranged televised statement in which he suggested he was done with the Obama administration and ready to deal with president-elect Donald Trump, who has sided squarely with Israel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.