The Obama State Department is claiming that a call between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was disconnected on Sunday while speaking about the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, but was the call accidentally “disconnected” as they say, or did Benjamin Netanyahu hang up on John Kerry?

Did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Hang Up on John Kerry?

I would have to believe that this was not just a call that got disconnected. Maybe 10 years ago I would think that the Obama State Department’s explanation would have worked, but not anymore, and especially not with communications between the Israeli Prime Minister and US Secretary of State.

The fact that they had not spoken since the previous call was “disconnected” is a definite sign that the call was not ended on good terms. Most people who are cut off during a phone conversation would call back to finish the conversation. The only time that someone doesn’t call back is if the call was not going very well.

We would be almost anything that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hung up on John Kerry, whose anti-Semitic statements since the conflict started have shown that he is against the ability of Israel to defend itself from terrorists.

Kerry has betrayed Israel 8 times!

• The Hot Mic Moment. Just last week, as Hamas fired hundreds of rockets into Israel and Israel responded by attempting to hit military targets and avoid civilian casualties – Israel sacrificed its own troops in order to distinguish civilian from military targets – Kerry was caught on an open mic on Fox News ripping Israel for civilian casualties. “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation, it’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Kerry whined. “We’ve got to get over there.” According to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, other media quashed coverage of this anti-Israel broadside.
• Kerry Threatens Boycotts. Following the lead of his president, Kerry stated, “The risks are very high for Israel [if an agreement is not reached]. People are talking about boycott. That will intensify in the case of failure. Do they want a failure that then begs whatever may come in the form of a response from disappointed Palestinians and the Arab community?” According to IDF Radio, Kerry himself organized European boycotts of Israeli goods should an agreement not be reached.
• Kerry Threatens Intifada. In November, Kerry threatened that Israel’s failure to reach an agreement could lead to violence. “Failure of the talks will increase Israel’s isolation in the world. The alternative to getting back to the talks is a potential of chaos. I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?” Kerry warned. “I believe that if we do not resolve the issues between Palestinians and Israelis; if we do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation of Israel. There will be an increasing campaign of delegitimization of Israel that’s taking place on an international basis. That if we do not resolve the question of the settlements and who lives where and how and what rights they have; if we don’t end the presence of Israeli soldiers perpetually within the West Bank, then there will be an increasing feeling that if we cannot get peace with a leadership that is committed to nonviolence, you may wind up with leadership that is committed to violence.”
• Kerry Calls Israel an “Apartheid State.” In April, Kerry said that Israel had to make concessions to the Palestinians or face becoming an “apartheid state.” He also warned again that Israel could precipitate violence by not surrendering to Palestinian terror. “A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state,” Kerry said.

Kerry Pushes 1949 Lines. Mirroring the policies of President Obama, Kerry has reportedly pushed Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders referred to in Israel as “Auschwitz borders” due to their indefensibility.

• State Department Rejects Requiring Palestinians to Accept Jewish State. Kerry’s State Department rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate that any peace deal be predicated on acceptance of Israel as a Jewish State. In March, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, reportedly told Palestinian Authority Al-Quds newspaper, “The American position is clear, Israel is a Jewish state. However, we do not see a need that both sides recognize this position as part of the final agreement.”
• Kerry Backs Iran Deal. When Israel objected to the Obama administration’s absurd nuclear deal with Iran, Kerry’s spokesperson instead said that Israeli worries about the deal were “inaccurate, exaggerated, and not based on reality.” According to NPR, “the secretary himself reportedly told senators behind closed doors that they should disregard the Israeli reports about the deal. Kerry’s also been more vocal lately about Israeli settlement building in the West Bank as his other priority, Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, falter.”

With the above info on hand it is easy to see why Netanyahu would want to hang up on Kerry.

A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of war was holding for a second day Wednesday, ahead of negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and a broader deal for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata reported from Tel Aviv on Wednesday that despite the longest lull in fighting since the current crisis began, the cease-fire felt more like a standoff, and the prospect of a return to war wasn’t far away; Israeli tanks were still positioned right on the Gaza border.

Whether the calm lasts, said D’Agata, was entirely dependent on the success of the talks in Cairo. Both sides have sent teams to discuss opposing demands that Hamas demilitarize and Israel end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

But they’ve been fighting over those same opposing demands for eight years, and each minute of the 72-hour cease-fire that passes, is one minute closer to the deadline running out.

In the coming days, Egyptian mediators are to shuttle between delegations from both sides to try to work out a deal.

Some details have emerged about the negotiating points of Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, including an internationally funded reconstruction that would be overseen by a Palestinian unity government led by President Mahmoud Abbas.

Meanwhile, Norway is organizing a donor conference and the Western-backed Abbas is expected to take the lead in overseeing the rebuilding in the coastal territory, which his Fatah movement lost to Hamas in 2007.

The Times of Israel reports that a call between Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was disconnected Sunday. The two reportedly have not spoken since.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said “their phone call was cut off” and that there was a “communications issue.”

“Sometimes calls get cut off. [I]t was a brief call, is what I’m trying to convey,” Psaki said when asked if the Israeli prime minister might have hung up on Kerry in anger. “There was nothing that interesting about it, no. That was not the case. That was not the case.”

The cease-fire is the longest lull in a war that has killed nearly 1,900 Palestinians. Israel has lost 67 people, including three civilians.

The war broke out on July 8, when the Israeli military began bombarding targets in Gaza in an attempt to stop Hamas from launching rockets at Israel. On July 17, Israel sent ground troops into the densely-populated territory to destroy underground tunnels it said Hamas had constructed for attacks inside Israel.

But in the weeks leading up to the war, Israeli-Palestinian tensions were soaring in the wake of the June killings of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered two weeks after they disappeared in the West Bank.

Israel accused Hamas of being behind the abductions, and subsequently carried out a massive ground operation in the West Bank, arresting hundreds of Hamas operatives as part of a manhunt. And in early July, an Arab teenager was abducted and burned alive by Israeli extremists in an apparent revenge attack. Six Jewish Israelis were arrested in that killing.

On Wednesday, Israel’s justice ministry confirmed that the suspected mastermind behind the killing of the three Israeli teens had been arrested in July. The suspect, Husam al-Qawasmi, allegedly led a three-man cell that Israeli prosecutors say kidnapped and murdered the teens. It wasn’t immediately clear if al-Qawasmi has been charged.

In Gaza, meanwhile, people have taken advantage of the calm to return to their devastated homes and inspect the damage.

For the first time in nearly a month, CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward said the streets of Gaza were bustling Tuesday, as Israeli troops withdrew completely and both sides stopped firing.

Ward reported that after weeks of relentless bombardment, the full extent of the damage was only just beginning to sink in. Many of the people who were finally able to come home Tuesday found they had no homes to return to. Entire neighborhoods have been completely destroyed.

Cars and donkey carts loaded with household goods and mattresses filled the streets and queues formed at banks as people waited to withdraw cash from ATMs.

Crews from utility companies worked frantically to repair downed electricity and telephone lines, though with Gaza’s only electrical generating plant badly damaged by an Israeli attack, it may be a long while before anything resembling normal service is restored.

In the devastated Shijaiyah neighborhood east of Gaza city, carpenter Mahmoud Al Maghani, 44, surveyed the damage to his property.

“I think my workshop was here, but honestly I can’t make sure of that,” he said. “I came yesterday and all I found was rubble.”

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