Alan Dershowitz, FOX News: John Kerry's meaningless speech and tragic missed opportunity
What if the Secretary of State gave a policy speech and no one listened? Because Secretary Kerry’s speech Wednesday came after the U.S.'s abstention on the Security Council vote, nobody in Israel will pay any attention to anything he said. Had the speech come before the abstention, there would have been some possibility of it influencing the debate within Israel. But following the U.S. abstention, Kerry has lost all credibility with Israelis across the political spectrum. This is why his speech wasn’t even aired live on Israeli TV.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 28, 2016
John Kerry Gives a Final Warning to Israel and Netanyahu -- Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
John Kerry’s ‘eulogy’ for Middle East peace -- Christa Case Bryant, CSM
Trump Could Be Israel’s Worst Nightmare -- Gregg Carlstrom, Politico
John Kerry's Final, Harmful Insult to Israel -- Elliot Abrams, Weekly Standard
Why Iran sees Aleppo as chance to get in rather than out -- Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor
Why ISIL fights in Europe -- Jean-Pierre Filiu, Politico
The Smart Politics Behind Abe’s Visit to Pearl Harbor -- Michael Auslin, WSJ
Why Japan's Prime Minister Abe should apologize at Pearl Harbor -- Rabbi Abraham Cooper, FOX News
The Party Endures: China and the World in 2016 -- Will Edwards, Cipher Brief
Five North Korea scenarios -- Korea Joong Ang Daily
Has Boko Haram been defeated? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Averting Another Crisis in Congo -- Bloomberg editorial
Putin's Perfect Storm -- Brian Whitmore, RFE
Europe's far right set for a big 2017 – but how big? -- Sara Miller Llana, CSM
4 ways Russian-NATO relations could break down in 2017 -- Alexey Timofeychev, UPI/Russia Beyond the Headline
The three tactics that took Trump from outsider to insider -- Alissa Quart, Reuters
Spy Vs. Spy: The Bay of Pigs and the Battle for the Soul of the CIA -- James Lockhart, War on the Rocks
