Regarding this comment: “It baffles me what he planned or hoped to accomplish with this speech.”

He isn’t assessing things in the same way you or I would. He lives in a dream world, focused only on himself and his own status and comfort. He was simply acting in another scene in the movie in his imagination, World Peace Starring John Kerry.

Recently, particularly after reading Trump’s The Art of the Deal, I’ve become almost optimistic. Trump is a great deal maker. He may not create love and harmony between the two groups, but it is quite possible that he will settle at least the critical ‘who gets what land’ part of this dispute.

And that may be what has Obama and Kerry so ticked off. Trump will do what they couldn’t do. That’s why they’re doing their best to so poison relations that any settlement becomes impossible.

That may not prove true. Obviously incompetent to settle the disputes, they may prove equally incompetent at preventing Trump from doing so. For instance, far from blocking progress, this dreadful UN resolution offers an opportunity for Trump to counter it by moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. That’ll create a brief fuss, but in the end it will remove one more obstacle to a negotiated settlement.

No, Kerry is not Jewish.

He’s not even Jewish by the fairly broad definition of the Nazis:

The Nuremberg Laws, as they became known, did not define a “Jew” as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents was defined as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual identified himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community. Many Germans who had not practiced Judaism for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror. Even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity were defined as Jews…

Consequently, the Nazis classify as Jews thousands of people who had converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.

Kerry had two Jewish grandparents on his father’s side. Those grandparents converted before they came to this country, about a century ago. You can find a short article about it here.

Kerry himself was raised Catholic (that’s the faith to which his Catholic paternal grandparents converted a century ago). He didn’t even know he had Jewish granparents till about 2000 or so (it had been kept a secret in the family). His mother was a DAR-type New England blueblood. Not Jewish.

So, As an american citizen and soldier….Kerry attacked his fellow AMERICAN soldiers as being beneath him.

AND threw someone ELSE’S medals over the fence…..while misleading everyone to think that the medals were his…

Yet ..He spent only 4 months in Vietnam, so the possibility exists that he could have adversely affected the rules of engagement for OTHER soldiers, making their lives more difficult and less safe with his testimony.

Even though he was several thousand miles away and very safe.

Forty years later….he possibly does the same thing to Israel, (fellow Jews ?) ….providing that he is Jewish.

But he doesn’t live in Israel, so his “solution” really doesn’t affect him personally.

And once again, his “gasbaggery “could make entire situation less safe for BOTH sides…..while he is thousands of miles away and very safe.

He is a Strange guy.

I’ll be glad when he is retired and back “wind-surfing”.

Kind of an apt hobby, his whole career was a ride on hot air.