’Israeli’ Ministers Lash out at Kerry over Settlement Remarks

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Two senior "Israeli" government ministers lashed out at US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday over remarks he made linking the "Israeli" settlement plans with the growth of extremist groups.

"I respect John Kerry and his efforts but he keeps breaking new records in lack of understanding of our region and the essence of our disputes," the so-called "Israeli" Communications Minister Gilad Erdan said in an interview with "Israeli" radio.

"I think that this time it is really a new record," he said.

Kerry said on Thursday that in conversations he had heard that "the unresolved "Israeli"-Palestinian conflict was fuelling recruitment for the "ISIL" group."
"There wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between "Israel" and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation," Kerry said.

"People need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity," he added.

Erdan, a member of "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party who holds a seat on the prestigious security cabinet, mocked the idea that building settlements in the occupied West Bank, was fanning the flames of extremism.

For his part, "Israeli" Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said that "the world sought to make "Israel" a scapegoat for its troubles."
"Even when a British Muslim beheads a British Christian there will always be someone who blames the "Jews"," he wrote on Twitter.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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