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| Moshe Ya'alon | John Kerry |
Tensions between Israel and America spilled into the open on Tuesday as the US angrily rejected the Israeli defence minister's claim that John Kerry is on a messianic quest for peace in the Middle East.
Moshe Yaalon, a hawkish Israeli cabinet minister, reportedly dismissed the US secretary of state's frenetic peacemaking efforts as outside meddling motivated by "an incomprehensible obsession and a sense of messianism".
"The only thing that might save us is if John Kerry wins the Nobel Prize and leaves us be," Mr Yaalon told US and Israeli officials, according to the Yediot Ahranot newspaper.
The former Israeli general reportedly said Mr Kerry "can't teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians" and disdainfully dismissed a US security proposal as "not worth the paper it was written on". » | Raf Sanchez, Washington, Inna Lazareva in Jerusalem | Tuesday, January 14, 2014
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