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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Statements by PM Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Kerry [silent on PA]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Apparently the Americans insisted that in the
prepared remarks that PM Netanyahu not criticize the PA. Instead Netanyahu
was limited to the following hint "we're fighting also against the sources
of incitement".

Question : Will Mahmoud Abbas also be required not to criticize Israel in
his prepared remark when he meets with Mr. Kerry?]

Statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State
John Kerry

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State John Kerry, this
morning (Tuesday, 24 November 2015), met at the Prime Minister's Office in
Jerusalem and issued the following statements before their meeting:

Prime Minister Netanyahu

"Good morning, John. I'd like to welcome you again to Jerusalem.

You are a friend in our common effort to restore stability, security and
peace. There can be no peace when we have an onslaught of terror – not here
or not anywhere else in the world, which is experiencing this same assault
by militant Islamists and the forces of terror. Israel is fighting these
forces every hour. We are fighting them directly against the terrorists
themselves; we're fighting also against the sources of incitement. And we
believe that the entire international community should support this effort.
It's not only our battle, it's everyone's battle. It's the battle of
civilization against barbarism.

Welcome, John."

US Secretary of State Kerry

"Thank you.

Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here, and for me, I am
pleased to be back in Jerusalem, pleased to be back in Israel, though I come
at a time that, as the Prime Minister has just said, is very troubled.
Clearly, no people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks in
the streets, with knives or scissors or cars. And it is very clear to us
that the terrorism, these acts of terrorism which have been taking place,
deserve the condemnation that they are receiving and today I expressed my
complete condemnation for any act of terror that takes innocent lives and
disrupts the day-to-day life of a nation.

Israel has every right in the world to defend itself. It has an obligation
to defend itself. And it will and it is. Our thoughts and prayers are with
innocent people who have been hurt in this process. I know that yesterday a
soldier was killed and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and
those who were wounded, their families. Regrettably, several Americans have
also been killed in the course of these past weeks, and just yesterday I
talked to the family of Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, a young man who
came here out of high school, ready to go to college, excited about his
future, and yesterday his family was sitting shiva and I talked to them and
heard their feelings, the feelings of any parent for the loss of a child.

So I'm here today to talk with the Prime Minister about the ways that we can
work together, all of us – the international community – to push back
against terrorism, to push back against senseless violence and to find a way
forward, to restore calm and to begin to provide the opportunities that most
reasonable people in every part of the world are seeking for themselves and
for their families.

We have much to talk about. There's a lot happening in the region, as well
as those events that are happening here in Israel. We are deeply concerned
about Syria, about Daesh, about regional unrest. We all have an interest,
needless to say, in working together against this spasm of violence that is
interrupting too much of the daily life of too many nations.

So, Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your welcome. I'm pleased to be back
here, to continue to work with you on these issues, and I thank you for your
always generous welcome."

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