United States urges Palestine and Israel to refrain from escalating the conflict

Secretary of State John Kerry is condemning terrorist attacks against Israelis, saying there is no justification for violence.

“There is no moral equivalence here between the savagery of the Palestinian terrorists and the innocent Israelis they are trying to murder”.

During a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge Tuesday, Kerry touched on a number of challenges including the fight against the Islamic State group.

Students and community members gathered outside IU Auditorium Thursday morning to protest U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit.

“Once again Sec. Kerry and his staff have proven themselves utterly unfit for the positions they hold”, Cruz told the Washington Free Beacon. “Kerry should immediately disavow these remarks or resign”.

The “offensive” comments are a pattern for the State Department.

Kerry will be the first sitting secretary of state to visit IU in 20 years. “Now you have this violence because there’s a frustration that is growing, and a frustration among Israelis who don’t see any movement”.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab police officers next to the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem – the scene of numerous previous stabbing attacks targeting Israelis, reports the Times of Israel.

Cruz said that the Obama administration’s “obsessive antagonism [toward Israel] has been on full display”, in recent days.

Zeldin went on to say that Kirby’s comments warrant an “immediate removal”.

Kerry said that compared to the world in which he grew up, which was defined by the Cold War and the United States vs. the Soviet Union, the world that has emerged since the fall of the Berlin Wall unleashed long-stifled forces, calling for a more complex foreign policy.

Asked whether there is any discussion of Kerry convening a summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jordan, Kirby declined to give information on the agenda of Kerry during his trip to the Middle East.