'Nonsensical and Ridiculous': Party Leaders Slam John Kerry for Israel Apartheid Remark

Politicians from both parties criticized Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday for saying Israel was at risk of becoming an apartheid state if the nation did not agree to a two-state solution with Palestine.

“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative," Kerry said, according to the Daily Beast. "Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state.”

Kerry made the remark in front of world leaders during a supposedly private Trilateral Commission meeting in Washington, D.C. on April 25, but a Daily Beast reporter recorded the speech. The comparison references the system of racial segregation that was present in South Africa until 1994. Palestinians and Israelis have engaged in armed conflict since Israel become a nation in 1948, displacing many Palestinians, many of whom want a nation of their own. Read more...