What are the immediate implications of Kerry’s speech? The parties invited to the Paris summit will have to decide whether or not to adopt his framework and, moving quickly, place it before the UN Security Council as a resolution
Secretary of State Kerry’s Speech on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
While the challenge regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict posed by US Secretary of State John Kerry on December 28, 2016, shortly before the end of his term in office, was directed primarily at Israel, it was also aimed at the Palestinians. In his speech, Kerry stipulated the starting points for any future talks between the sides, yet ignoring the fact that in previous rounds of negotiations held over the last twenty years toward a permanent status agreement both sides have rejected these principles. Furthermore, the Secretary of State ignored the turbulence in the Middle East of recent years, although this upheaval demands a reexamination of the traditional negotiations paradigm.
