Time Running Short for Middle East Peace Pact, Kerry Says
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said time is running short for Israelis to negotiate a peace with Palestinians and that any sense of security with the status quo is illusory.
“What is static today will not be static tomorrow,” Kerry said yesterday in remarks to a conference in Washington sponsored by AJC, a Jewish advocacy group. Those who find comfort “because there’s a fence, and because there’s greater security and fewer people hurt, are lulling themselves into a delusion that that somehow can be sustained. It cannot be.”