Zionist Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon dismissed a security plan presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry, saying it is “not worth the paper it was written on”.
Zionist Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon dismissed a security plan presented by US Secretary of State John Kerry, saying it is “not worth the paper it was written on”.
"The American plan for security arrangements that was shown to us... provides neither security nor peace," Moshe Yaalon was quoted by Israeli dailuy Yediot Aharonot as saying.
The plan "isn't worth the paper it was written on," Yaalon reportedly said in private conversations with Israeli officials, accusing Kerry of being naive and implying that he is a nuisance.
Kerry has tried to push Zionists and Palestinians towards an elusive “peace” deal after decades of conflict, shuttling back and forth in 10 visits to the region since March.
His proposals include a security plan for the Jordan Valley, where the West Bank borders Jordan, including the use of satellite technology to monitor the situation on the ground, local media say.
The Zionist entity insists on maintaining a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley, but the Palestinians reject that, instead urging deployment of an international force.
Yaalon criticized what he said was Kerry's naivety, and insisted that having “boots on the ground” was the only way to “guarantee Israel's security.”
"I live and breathe the conflict with the Palestinians; I know what they think, what they want and what they are really planning," he said.
"Secretary of State John Kerry -- who arrived here determined, and who operates from an incomprehensible obsession and a sense of messianic -- can't teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians."
"The only thing that might save us is if John Kerry wins the Nobel Prize and leaves us be," he added.
Kerry was reported by Yediot as saying the security plan would make Israel's eastern border "the quietest in the world, more than the border between Canada and the United States."