US Secretary of State John Kerry warns Israel
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday accused right-wing Israelis of deliberately thwarting efforts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians.
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In unusually stark terms, Washington s top diplomat warned that Israeli settlement building was undermining any hope of an agreement to allow two states to live side-by-side.
At the Saban Forum, an annual gathering of senior Israeli and US policymakers, Kerry said some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government had made "profoundly disturbing" statements.
"And more than 50 percent of the ministers in the current government have publicly stated they are opposed to a Palestinian state and that there will be no Palestinian state," he said.
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Earlier in the day, Netanyahu had addressed the forum via video link, arguing that Israeli settlement building was not an obstacle to peace.
