‘Embarrassing’: John Kerry Skewered over Cease-fire Talks and Compared to an ‘Alien Who Just Disembarked His Spaceship’       Jul. 27, 2014    Sharona Schwartz                                                                              The Israeli government and left-wing driven media are fuming at Secretary of State John Kerry over his botched efforts at forging an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, with a prominent diplomatic reporter likening him to an alien who just descended to Earth from a spaceship.  Sources in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet speaking on background plastered the Israeli media over the weekend with their assessment that the Kerry proposal was a one-sided capitulation to the demands of Hamas, a group designated not only by Israel but by Kerry’s State Department as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

This photo was captured in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, July 23, 2014                                      before the Israeli government rejected Kerry’s cease-fire proposal,                                          but the look on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face                                        was striking. (AP Photo/Pool)

Barak Ravid, diplomatic correspondent for the left-wing Haaretz newspaper, who has made a career of bashing Netanyahu in his coverage, has now penned among the most scathing descriptions of Kerry’s failed mission, denouncing the secretary of state over his lack of “judgment and perception of regional events” and accusing him of all but lying in his effort to paint a more rosy picture of his progress this weekend.

This, as the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s top-rated television news show, Channel 2’s Udi Segal, quoted government ministers who called Kerry “negligent,” “lacking the ability to understand” the issues, and “incapable of handling the most basic matters,” the Times of Israel reported.  
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