aljazeeraamerica:Opinion: Israel jittery over global boycottsU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is e
aljazeeraamerica:Opinion: Israel jittery over global boycottsU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to unveil a framework for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians within weeks. Amid growing pressures from economic boycotts, Kerry said the current status quo in the West Bank is “illusionary” and unsustainable. He had warned Israel of a glum response should it reject his peace plan.“For Israel, there’s an increasing delegitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it,” Kerry told a security conference in Munich on Feb. 1. “There are talk of boycotts and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?”His comments drew angry responses from Israeli politicians. “I would advise John Kerry and some Israeli leftists to at least hide their smiles when they talk about threats of boycotts on Israel,” Dani Dayan, Israel’s chief foreign envoy to the Yesha Council, an umbrella organization of Israeli settlement municipal councils, wrote on Twitter. In a veiled reference to Kerry’s comments, Naftali Bennett, who heads the pro-settler Habayit Hayehudi party, added, “We expect our friends around the world to stand beside us, against anti-Semitic boycott efforts targeting Israel, and not for them to be their amplifier.”Continue(Photo: Ammar Awad/Reuters) -- source link