John Kerry Meets With Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem as Stabbing Attacks on

Amid an ongoing wave of Palestinian attacks on Israel, US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to “calm things down a little bit”.

“Today I express my complete condemnation for any act of terror that takes innocent lives”.

“Clearly, no people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks in the streets, with knives or scissors or cars”.

“He (Kerry) showed understanding for Israel’s right to self-defense while ignoring the Palestinians’ right to defend themselves against Israel’s state terrorism and summary executions”, Aiatah told the Palestinian Khabar news agency.

Responding to reports that Israel might grant the Palestinians a greater role in running affairs in Area C, hard-line Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel said the transfer of any land to Palestinian control, especially under terror, constitutes “a red line” that might merit his Jewish Home party to quit Netanyahu’s coalition.

Kerry will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin while in Jerusalem, then meet separately with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah. While Israel alleged many of those were attempting to attack Israelis when they were shot, Palestinians and rights groups have disputed Israel’s version of events in a number of cases.

The latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians ignited early last month following clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at a holy site in Jerusalem revered by both Jews and Muslims.

Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights activist.

The Magen David Adom, Israel’s paramedic agency, says that 21 Israelis have been killed within the same period – a figure that also includes an Eritrean asylum seeker killed by a mob who misidentified him as an attacker.

In another step, Mr Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel intends to cancel work permits of relatives of Palestinian assailants.

“It happens nearly every day over there and it’s awful, and too many Israelis have been killed and stabbed, and too many Palestinians”.

The larger vision of a two-state solution has been the centerpiece of American foreign policy in the Middle East for decades.

In Abu Dhabi on Monday, Kerry said Washington had ideas “for how things could proceed” to try to stem the violence.

The body of an Israeli soldier, who was stabbed and killed by a Palestinian at a petrol station, is covered near the West Bank village of Khirbit Al-Misbah between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

A ricochet from one of the bullets he fired injured a passerby – an Israeli man, hospital officials said.

On Monday, a Palestinian fatally stabbed a soldier, two Palestinian girls were shot after they stabbed an elderly Arab man and a vehicle struck a pedestrian before speeding off to a nearby West Bank town.

Abbas in his speech to the United Nations in September said he was no longer bound by accords with Israel, saying “we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements”.

Israel says the violence stems from Palestinian incitement and incendiary videos on social media. In that letter the President said that the U.S. would take into account the “changes on the ground” and “existence of Israelis population centers”. They are the same people we are supposed to give better lives to. “We have much to talk about”, Kerry continued, adding the issue of ISIS will also be discussed during their meeting.