'**nsensical and Ridiculous': Party Leaders Slam John Kerry for Israel Apartheid Rema
 

'**nsensical and Ridiculous': Party Leaders Slam John Kerry for Israel Apartheid Remark
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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 **t 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...

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