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US
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a town hall meeting with
university
students at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 18,
2014 (AFP/File,
Jewel Samad)
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Washington
— In a rare move, Secretary of State John Kerry protested Wednesday to Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about strong criticism of US foreign policy
by his outspoken defense minister.
In a
telephone call, Kerry told Netanyahu the comments made by Defense Minister
Moshe Yaalon are inconsistent with strong ties between Israel and the United
States, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
"Clearly
his comments were not constructive," Psaki told reporters, after Yaalon
slammed the US administration for showing weakness around the world,
particularly on its policy with Iran and Ukraine.
"Secretary
Kerry spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning and protested to him his
concerns about these comments," she said, adding that the United States
has an "unshakeable commitment" to Israel's security.
"It is
certainly confusing to us why Defense Minister Yaalon would continue his
pattern of making comments that don't accurately represent the scope of our
close partnership on a range of security issues and on the enduring partnership
between the United States and Israel."
But Kerry
has a "thick skin" and "we're ready to move forward and keep
talking about the peace process," Psaki added.
It is not
Yaalon's first diatribe against the administration of President Barack Obama
and Kerry himself.
In January,
the State Department denounced as "offensive" comments made by the
defense minister accusing Kerry of an "incomprehensible obsession"
with his push for Middle East peace.
Yaalon was
later forced to apologize to the top US diplomat, who has been trying to hammer
out for the past year a comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and the
Palestinians.
Psaki
refused to divulge what Netanyahu's response was on Wednesday's call, nor
whether Kerry had asked the Israeli prime minister to fire Yaalon.
Netanyahu's
office would not comment on the call, but Israeli news website Ynet said the
premier had spoken to Yaalon about the matter and that a source in the defense
minister's office said Yaalon was "expected to smooth things over with the
Americans."
In an
address to Tel Aviv University, Yaalon was quoted as saying Tuesday that if the
United States continued to demonstrate weakness overseas, its own security
would be harmed.
"If
you sit and wait at home, terrorism will come again," the Haaretz daily
quoted him as saying.
"If
your image is feebleness, it doesn't pay in the world... I hope the United
States comes to its senses. If it doesn't, it will challenge the world order
and the United States is the one that will suffer."
He also
toughened his line on Iran and appeared ready to back an Israeli military
strike.
"We
had thought the ones who should lead the (military) campaign against Iran is
the United States... But at some stage, the United States entered into
negotiations with them, and unhappily, when it comes to negotiating at a
Persian bazaar, the Iranians were better," he said.
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Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon
arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at
the prime
minister's Jerusalem office on
October 20, 2013 (Pool/AFP/File, Abir
Sultan)
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