Wall Street Journal: Kerry Warns Violence in Mideast Could ‘Spin Out of Control’
U.S. secretary of state calls for immediate steps to ease Israeli-Palestinian tensions
BOSTON—After talks in Israel and the West Bank aimed at calming tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday the situation is reaching a pivotal point and that the two sides must take immediate steps so the violence doesn’t “spin out of control.”
“Both sides have important decisions to make for the future and we obviously hope they make the choices that will advance the prospects for lasting peace,” he told reporters traveling with him at the end of a three-day trip to the Middle East that included his first visit to Israel and the West Bank in over a year.
The U.S. is urging the two sides to avoid provocative actions, including Israeli construction of new settlements and Palestinian incitement to violence. Mr. Kerry traveled to the Mideast on Tuesday to try to ease tensions amid a two-month wave of violence sparked by clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at a holy site in Jerusalem.
Update: Kerry fears Israeli-Palestinian conflict may 'spin out of control' (AFP)
WNU editor: After one year U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes a visit to Israel .... and finds that nothing has changed. But the Middle East is changing, and in the whole scheme of things the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is insignificant in comparison to the slaughter that is occurring just next door in Syria and in Iraq.
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