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Kerry skewers Israel: It 'cannot be both' Jewish and democratic with one-state solution
Secretary of State John Kerry (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Kerry skewers Israel: It 'cannot be both' Jewish and democratic with one-state solution

President Barack Obama's White House is certainly closing out its final weeks with a no-holds-barred approach to Israel, following the Friday vote on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which blocks the Jewish state from establishing settlements in land the Palestinians claim as their own.

In a Wednesday speech that sounded more like a diatribe against Israel, outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry explained the Obama administration's decision to abstain from — rather than veto — the 14-0 vote on the anti-Israel resolution, skewering the country for advocating a one-state solution.

"If the choice is one state," Kerry said, "Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both."

However, contrary to Kerry's comments, Israel is actually the only legitimately democratic country in all of the Middle East.

Moments after the secretary of state made the bold remark, Dan McLaughlin, a lawyer and contributor at National Review, took to Twitter to call Kerry out.

"Imagine an American Secretary of State declaring that a nation can be Islamic or democratic, but cannot be both," he wrote.

Similarly, Republican consultant Nathan Wurtzel called Kerry out for the irony in his statement.

And Free Beacon reporter Alyssa Canobbio said her "jaw is on the ground" after Kerry's statement.

During his speech, Kerry also said, "Today, there are a similar number of Jews and Palestinians living between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea. They have a choice. They can choose to live together in one state or they can separate into two states."

However, negotiation is significantly hampered when one partner in the negotiation refuses to acknowledge the other partner's right to exist.

"The Palestinians won't recognize the Jewishness of the State of Israel and won't accept it," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in 2014. "The Israelis say that if we don't recognize the Jewishness of Israel there would be no solution. And we say that we won't recognize or accept the Jewishness of Israel and we have many reasons for this rejection."

It is interesting to note that, while Jews living in the U.S. tend to side with the Obama administration when it comes to Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the ability for Israel and Palestine to co-exist, Israeli Jews, who are actually on the ground, see it differently, according to new data from Pew Research.

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