Via PJ Media:
As a new intifada brews in the Middle East, Secretary of State John Kerry will be flying to Israel in an effort to move the crisis away from the “precipice.”
Kerry was engaging in a Q&A at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government yesterday and stressed that he was recently on the phone with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The State Department said he was sending both leaders the same message about their responsibility to keep the peace as Palestinians have been randomly stabbing Israelis in the streets.
“We’re working on trying to calm things down. And I will go there soon at some point appropriately and try to work to re-engage and see if we can’t move that away from this precipice,” Kerry said.
He warned the audience that “if we don’t do a better job of taking our values and our interests and marrying them and engaging with the rest of the world to give greater capacity to international multilateral efforts, it’s going to come back to haunt people.”