Netanyahu’s new spox: John Kerry ‘has a 12-year-old’s intellect,’ Obama's actions 'anti-Semitic'

Published time: 6 Nov, 2015 09:24Edited time: 6 Nov, 2015 09:28
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.  Carlo Allegri / Reuters
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The US has been up in arms over controversial comments made by Benjamin Netanyahu's newly appointed, but not yet approved spokesman. Ran Baratz once accused Barack Obama of anti-Semitism and suggested that Secretary of State John Kerry had the intellect of a 12-year-old.
Predictably, the United States blew a gasket, expressing concern at Netanyahu's appointment.
"His comments about US officials, including the president and Secretary Kerry, we believe were troubling and offensive. We obviously expect government officials from any country, especially our closest allies, to speak respectfully and truthfully about senior US government officials," State Department spokesman John Kirby said.
As head of public diplomacy and media, Baratz, a 42-year-old philosophy, history and Zionist thought lecturer and the founding editor of a conservative news site, will be tasked with revamping Israel's reputation in the world. If Israel’s cabinet approves Netanyahu's nomination of Baratz, he will serve as spokesman to the Israeli media and become a close adviser. 

Netanyahu's newly appointed spokesman Ran Baratz.  Olivier Fitoussi / Reuters

Within hours of his appointment Wednesday, Israeli media put Baratz’s numerous quotes on Facebook and articles under the microscope. For some reason, they appear to have gone unnoticed by Netanyahu's staff.
In comments made in a private capacity, in a Facebook post last March, Baratz said Obama's response to a speech by Netanyahu to the US Congress, during which he slammed the emerging Iran deal, "was what modern anti-Semitism looks like in Western and liberal countries."
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In October 2014, Baratz attacked Kerry in an article published in Mida, which bills itself as a "news and intellectual website which aims to present the public with information and opinions not common in the Israeli media." Remarks made by Kerry on the occasion of a Muslim holiday, when he said Middle East leaders had told him feelings stirred by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were a factor in Islamic State recruitment, made Baratz laugh, he said.
"This is the time, then," Baratz wrote, "to wish the secretary of state success and count down two years on the calendar with the hope that someone in the State Department will then wake up and begin to see the world through the eyes of a man with a mental age above 12."






https://www.rt.com/news/321025-netanyahu-baratz-obama-kerry/

Za one koji ne znaju engleski:

" Ovo je vrijeme , dakle, " Baratz napisao , " željeti državnog tajnika uspjeha i odbrojavati dvije godine na kalendaru s nadom da netko u State Department će onda probuditi i početi vidjeti svijet kroz oči čovjeka s mentalnom dobi iznad 12 godina "

Netanyahu je ovaj put pogodio u sridu. Kerry je na razini djeteta od 12 godina. Ako ne i manje.
Samo to je ipak zastrašujuće - kakav je ovo svijet u kojem takvi likovi vedre i oblače?

marcus-t wrote:Netanyahu je ovaj put pogodio u sridu. Kerry je na razini djeteta od 12 godina. Ako ne i manje.
Samo to je ipak zastrašujuće - kakav je ovo svijet u kojem takvi likovi vedre i oblače?

Pa sad bas da vedre....

Izrael puppet state SAD-a ili SAD Izraela? Teško je reći...

Pa to je i 12godisnjem djetetu jasno...