Calls for resignation following Secretary Kerrys remarks that Israel could become an apartheid state"
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today spoke on the Senate floor to call for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerrys resignation following the secretarys comments at the Trilateral Commission that Israel could become an apartheid state" if his proposed two-state solution to the peace Israeli-Palestinian peace-process fails.
There is no place for this word in the context of the State of Israel. The term apartheid means apartdifferent isolatedthe state of the victims of apartheid with which the Jews are all too familiar. The notion that Israel would go down that path and so face the same condemnation that met South Africa is unconscionable. The United States should be aggressively asserting that Israel can never be made an apartheid nation while America exists because America will be with Israel regardless of the status of any diplomatic process.
The fact that Secretary Kerry sees nothing wrong with making such a statement on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day demonstrates a shocking lack of sensitivity to the incendiary and damaging nature of his rhetoric. It is my belief that Secretary Kerry has thus proven himself unsuitable for his position and that before any further harm is done to our alliance with Israel he should offer President Obama his resignation and the President should accept it."
Sen. Cruz was one of three U.S. Senators to vote against Secretary Kerrys nomination citing his belief that as Secretary of State John Kerry would place what he considered to be the wishes of the international community above the national security interests of the United States.
