PhotoSecretary of State John Kerry on Sunday accused right-wing Israelis of deliberately thwarting efforts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians. “And more than 50 percent of the ministers in the current government have publicly stated they are opposed to a Palestinian state and that there will be no Palestinian state,” Mr. Kerry said. But Mr. Kerry dismissed the idea that more Arab states would strike peace deals with Israel without any moves toward an agreement with the Palestinians. “There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace,” he said. That is a hard reality.”In the view of the United States government, Israel’s accelerated building on Palestinian-owned land is a deliberate obstacle to peace, Mr. Kerry added.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2016 03:52 UTC