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Obama Administration: Kerry and Air Grievances

obama administration: The key question for the Obama administration, newly willing to air grievances with Israel on live television, is why now We cannot, in good conscience, do nothing and say nothing when we see the hope of peace slipping away, Kerry said in a speech that ran more than an hour, according to Brandon Sun. Yet in just over three weeks, Obama will no longer be president, Kerry will no longer be secretary of state, and the U.S. will have a new leader under no obligation to embrace any of what Kerry said. Though they've clashed bitterly before, mostly notably over Iran, the two governments seemed further apart than ever after a speech Wednesday by Secretary of State John Kerry and last week's United Nations resolution. President-elect Donald Trump has assured Israel that things will be different after Jan. 20, when he's to be inaugurated, and lamented how the Jewish state was being treated very, very unfairly. He laid out a six-point framework for a potential peace deal that it will be up to the next U.S. government to try to enact, if it chooses to do so. Kerry took pains to voice America's staunch commitment to Israel's security and support for its future, and to detail U.S. complaints about Palestinian leadership and its failure to sufficiently deter violence against Israelis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.