Annotated Transcript and Video Coverage of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Historic 12/28/16 Speech

“Thank you, all. It’s good to be here, even in the middle of a holiday week. I wish you all…

Israel cannot have both, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, in unprecedented comments, Sunday, at the annual Saban Forum…

No one takes US ‘peace plan’ efforts seriously anymore – the Amman meetings were proof of that.US Secretary John Kerry…

US Secretary of State John Kerry called PM Netanyahu, this morning, asking him to set specific goals and objectives for…

The US has announced that there will be no new Middle East peace project offered by the American Secretary of…

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry and the US administration’s Middle East envoy expressed disappointment at the Israeli occupation…

The Israeli Jerusalem municipality, this past week, approved a plan to build a three-story housing complex for Israeli settlers in the center…

Secretary of State John Kerry, on Wednesday, urged Israeli and Palestinian officials to resume a “genuine” peace process, stressing that…

Leader of Israel’s opposition and head of the Zionist Union party, Isaac Herzog met with US Secretary of State John…

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday, rejected statements made by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, that Israel is…

United States Secretary John Kerry has, once again, visited the Middle East, to exert his particular brand of useless influence…

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday expressed support for Israel’s right to ‘defend’ itself from ‘terrorism’ and ‘senseless…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jordan, renewing his push to ease violence and tension between Israelis and…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will be holding a meeting in London, on Tuesday, with the Palestinian delegation headed…

The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) has officially decided to file an application to the United Nations Security Council, demanding a resolution…

US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Amman, Thursday, with Israeli PM Netanyahu and the King Abdullah II of…

VOA reported, today, that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to meet with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in…

Global donors pledged several billions of dollars in aid to the devastated Gaza Strip, on Sunday, despite warnings that the…

Palestinian negotiators met with US Secretary of State John Kerry for over two hours of ‘constructive’ talks concerning future relations…

Major General of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, along with the head of the Palestinian negotiation team, Saeb Erekat,…

According to John Kerry, international efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza must lead to the…

On Friday, a draft of US Secretary of State John Kerry‘s ceasefire proposal was shown to Israeli officials. The draft…

Israel has rejected a Gaza ceasefire proposal recently outlined by US Secretary of State John Kerry, according to Israeli public…

Egyptian sources have reported that US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Tel Aviv, Wednesday morning, to meet with…

US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel, Sunday, in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between…

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be holding a meeting, on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, with Palestinian President, Mahmoud…

US Secretary of State John Kerry announced, yesterday, that he has decided to take a pause in order to re-evaluate…

According to US media, US Secretary of State John Kerry said to a number of senior international officials that Israel…

Israeli Minister of Economy and head of the Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, denounced statements by US Secretary of State,…

After the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused to attend a meeting, Wednesday, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, thus…

[Tuesday, April 1, 2014] Unites States Secretary of State, John Kerry, left the Middle East following his meeting with Israeli…

US Secretary of State John Kerry has approved that the drafted framework peace agreement, to be signed between the Palestinian…

In the framework of the Palestinian reconciliation talks, and just days after a Fatah delegation arrived to the Gaza Strip…

Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, Danni Dannon, stated Sunday that American Secretary of State John Kerry intends to travel to the…

Secretary-General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership rejects the proposed agreement presented…

An Israeli official said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged King Abdullah, of Jordan, and King Abdullah bin…

[Monday January 6, 2014] US Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way home today, after four days of…

[Saturday January 4, 2014] Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, said that…

Amidst ongoing Israeli violations, invasions and assaults, as well as ongoing illegal settlement construction activities, U.S. Secretary of State John…

According to an Arab League official, US Secretary of State John Kerry will present Palestinian and Israeli leaders with a…

[Wednesday, December 18, 2013] Senior Palestinian sources are accusing the Obama administration of taking up Israeli positions in the peace…

US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted, on Sunday, that concrete progress has been made in peace talks between Israelis…

Well… U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated that he strongly believes peace is possible between Israel and the Palestinians…

[December 11, 2013] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive to the region, today, in order to…

The White House announced that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would be visiting Tel Aviv and Ramallah on Wednesday,…

Israeli TV Channel 10 has reported that Arab Members of Israeli Knesset are demanded the visiting US Secretary of State,…

[Thursday, December 5, 2013] After landing in Tel Aviv, U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry held a meeting with Israeli…

[Thursday, December 5, 2013] Israeli media sources have reported that United States Secretary General, John Kerry, will be separately meeting,…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated that Israel needs to withdraw from the Jordan valley and from Jordanian-Palestinian borders,…

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, started a Middle East Tour in which he plans to visit a number of…

U.S Secretary of State, John Kerry, held on Wednesday [October 23, 2013] a seven-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin…

Israeli sources have reported that United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be arriving in the region this coming…

The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that on Sunday evening [September 9 2013] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…

Commenting to the Israeli decision to build hundreds of units in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, U.S.…

On Monday [July 29], US Secretary of State John Kerry named Martin Indyk as the administration’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian…

[Thursday July 18 2013] Reuters has reported that U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, will be flying back to the…

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, stated that the gap between the Israeli and Palestinian stances regarding the resumption of…

[Tuesday at night July 16 2013] Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting with U.S Secretary of State, John Kerry,…

An Israeli political source stated that, during his latest visit to the region, U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, told…

[Monday July 15 2013] A Palestinian official told the France Press News Agency that President Mahmoud Abbas plans to meet…

[Friday June 28 2013] Reuters has reported that U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, held a meeting with Israeli Prime…

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, held a meeting on Thursday [June 24 2013] with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,…

Thursday [June 27] as part of his Middle East trip, U.S. Secretary General John Kerry held a meeting with king…

Amidst speculations that U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, would organize a direct meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, met in Amman on Tuesday head of the U.S Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, and…

U.S Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry on Friday assured Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of his commitment to Israel’s…

‘ARA, Thursday, January 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities Thursday released the longest-serving Palestinian freedom fighter Karim Younis after spending…

Palestine News Network On 28 January 2020, the US released its permanent “apartheid” plan for Palestine, which was mainly authored…

The two longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, cousins Karim and Maher Younis, have been behind bars for 38 years,…

photo: Apartment building in Gaza after bombing by Israeli aircraft. IAI, which services 80% of Amazon’s cargo planes, also provides…

Jehad Abusalim, policy consultant at American Friends Service Committee, discusses the situation of children in the Gaza Strip on June…

The humanitarian impact of Israeli settlements in Hebron on Palestinian residents is the focus of a new United Nations report,…

In a speech to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international peace…

PA President Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday, proposed a peace plan at the United Nations Security Council that tackles core issues,…

Reporting from the Gaza Strip, journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal says that Netanyahu’s domestic corruption case has not even…

by Yara Hawari Overview Key figures in the international arena have described the situation in the West Bank as apartheid, citing…

~ Madeeha Araj/ nbprs/pnn Since the beginning of the year, the West Bank, and especially East Jerusalem, is witnessing an acceleration…

Nabil Maarouf, Palestine’s Representative in Canada, calls for sanctions, boycotts and criminal prosecutions to being an end to Israel’s system…

Nabil Maarouf, Palestine’s Representative in Canada, discusses the Trudeau Government’s continuation of Stephen Harper’s extreme pro-Israel policies. TRNN transcript: Dimitri…

Israeli news site Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet) has published a report on housing unit construction plans made by the West Bank Israeli…

For two decades, some Israeli officials and Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East reportedly asked, during last week’s meeting, for Israeli Prime Minister…

Overview Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory does not only exist above ground. Since 1967, Israel has systematically colonized Palestinian natural…

Gideon Levy is a prominent Israeli journalist and author of the weekly column Twilight Zone in the Israeli paper Haaretz.…

~ Madeeha Araj/ National Bureau for the Defending of Land and Resisting Settlement/PNN The racism in Israel is reflected in every…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved plans for the construction of 2,500 housing units in…

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, on Tuesday, has called on Norway to recognize Palestine in…

Palestinian sources warned, Monday, of Israeli intents to establish an illegal settlement outpost on Palestinian land located in eastern Nablus.…

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has reportedly cancelled plans to vote on approving the construction of new Israeli settlement units, in occupied East…

In the first Security Council Resolution involving Israel and Palestine in six years, the UN Security Council on Friday passed…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org,…

UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, on Tuesday, released a statement on Israel’s “legalization bill,” which…

(Photo: A Palestinian stands on his property overlooking the Israeli settlement Har Homa, West Bank, February 18, 2011. UPI/Debbie Hill)…

Israeli Public radio reported, Friday morning, that the Israeli occupation municipality of Jerusalem is to announce plans for building thousands of…

via the Alternative Information Center (AIC), Beit Sahour. Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre, in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, has re-published…

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, on Tuesday, issued a statement condemning Israel’s plan to support the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement,…

The Middle East Quartet has released a report on impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations entitled, ‘Two-state Solution in Danger.’ The…

As thirty nations prepare representatives to meet in Paris Friday for talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Jerusalem Post reported…

NSNBC – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called for international mobilization against the planned Paris Conference…

Jordan has decided not to install security cameras at Islam’s third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in annexed East…