US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that the failure of the talks between Palestinians and the Zionist entity could lead to more isolation of Tel Aviv as it could trigger a third Intifada (uprising).
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Thursday that the failure of the talks between Palestinians and the Zionist entity could lead to more isolation of Tel Aviv as it could trigger a third Intifada (uprising).
"The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos," Kerry said in a joint interview with Israel's Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
"I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?" the top US diplomat asked, using the Arabic word for uprising.
Kerry was speaking on his seventh trip to the Zionist entity and the West Bank as he seeks to put the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations back on track.
Angered by continued Israeli settlement building, the Palestinians earlier this week threatened to pull out of the talks which only resumed three months ago after a three-year hiatus.
Kerry has slammed the settlements as illegitimate and said new construction should be limited.
He repeated grim predictions he made earlier this year that if Israel fails to make peace it will only find itself increasingly isolated by the international community.
"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 de-legitimization of Israel that's been taking place in an international basis," he said in a clip of the interview, shown ahead of the full broadcast.