By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently made the startlingly ridiculous statement that in his travels in the Middle East "there wasn't a leader I met within 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."
The suggestion that the lack of resolution between Israel and the Palestinians is in any way a reason for radicalism and the rise of ISIS is simply uninformed fiction.
The presence of the United States and the role of the United States in the Middle East - including the coalition, have much more to do with increased recruitment to ISIS and radicalization in the region than the lack of progress between Israel and the Palestinians.
And that is still no reason for the US to stop its involvement.
Kerry continues to stun me. How can the person responsible for US policy in the Middle East repeatedly make these ridiculous statements?
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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