To think I deeply respected this guy. He had a backbone, and the courage to speak to the facts publicly.
I thought he would've made a great President.
Then there's this - http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/29/kerry-grovels-over-israeli-apartheid/
Even within this, Kerry was initially very accurate, only to back-pedal and grovel -
"It is a mark of how upside-down Official Washington has become over
facts and evidence that Secretary of State John Kerry, who has developed a reputation
for making false and misleading statements about Syria and Russia,
rushes to apologize when he speaks the truth about the danger from
Israeli “apartheid.”
After public disclosure that he had said in a closed-door meeting of
the Trilateral Commission last week that Israel risked becoming an
“apartheid state,” Kerry hastily apologized for his transgression,
expressing his undying support for Israel and engaging in
self-flagellation over his word choice."
...
"But apartheid already is a feature of Israeli society. As former CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar wrote
in 2012, “the Israeli version of apartheid is very similar in important
respects to the South African version, and that moral equivalence ought
to follow from empirical equivalence. Both versions have included grand
apartheid, meaning the denial of basic political rights, and petty
apartheid, which is the maintaining of separate and very unequal
facilities and opportunities in countless aspects of daily life."
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