Photo Credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv/Flash 90.
Kerry's main point in his meeting with Israel's opposition leader Herzog was to find out how many hands would be raised in the Knesset in support of the Netanyahu concessions. Everything else is just show business.

Not so fast, suggests the Labor chairman. Herzog told Maariv “Kerry looked more determined than any go between in the past to reach a deal.”

I suppose that comparison would include Ralph Bunche, who mediated the 1949 ceasefire between Israel and its neighboring armies, and supposedly asked: Why can’t Jews and Arabs settle their differences like good Christians?

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Yori Yanover
Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.

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