John Kerry Warns Israel of Consequences of Palestinian Authority Collapse

Kerry made his remarks at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum during a speech on Saturday. “It will not happen and we will continue to protect the lives of Israelis”.

“Israel will not be a binational state, but in order to have peace, the other side needs to decide that it wants peace as well, and unfortunately this is not what we are witnessing”, Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting.

John Kerry said calls from some Israeli politicians to let Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ administration wither are counterproductive and self-defeating for Israel.

And another 72 Palestinians, said by Israel to have been attackers, have been killed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will not become a binational state, blaming the Palestinians for the standstill in the peace process.

“And again, it reminds us of the situation in the Middle East, where the Palestinians see that there is no future for them and have to either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence”, she added.

Secretary of State John Kerry caused consternation in Israel when he said the nation threatens to implode if a two-state solution is not reached with Palestinians, drawing the ire of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is simply not a viable option”, he said.

Wallstrom had already taken heat by Israeli officials last month, after discussing the frustration of Palestinian youth from the Israeli occupation, several days after the Paris terror attacks in which 130 people were killed, implicitly tying the two issues together.

JERUSALEM/STOCKHOLM Relations between Sweden and Israel hit a fresh low on Sunday after Israel said Sweden’s foreign minister had accused it of unlawful killings and Stockholm responded by saying that the comments had been “blown out of reasonable proportion”.

The United States, the worldwide community and many Israelis have endorsed the “two-state solution” – establishing a Palestinian state and ending Israel’s control over millions of Palestinians in territories occupied in the 1967 war.

Since October 1, nearly daily assaults and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers and violence between Palestinians and Israeli settlers have killed 109 Palestinians, including an Israeli Arab, 17 Israelis, an American and an Eritrean, according to an AFP count.

“It is important that it doesn’t become a slogan, a throw-away phrase, that it becomes a policy, which is what it is meant to be”, said the secretary of state.

“Are Israelis prepared for the consequences this would have for their children and grandchildren who serve in the (Israel Defence Forces)?” he questioned.