Mr Kerry, Welcome to Jerusalem. A moment of your time please.

...When you come back to Jerusalem, we would like to spend just a few minutes with you, discussing the immorality of the US government pressing Israel to breach the most basic of its obligations to its citizens - the right to justice, the right to know that justice is a sacrosanct value. What you have pressed Israel to do is something you would never dream of tolerating were it to be done in the United States. This is what we want to discuss with you. We hope you will have a little more time on your next visit.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
05 December '13..




Dear Secretary of State Kerry,

We know you are working to a tight schedule on your briefest-of-brief visits to Jerusalem today. We wanted very much to speak directly with you today. For the third time in five months, we reached out to your staff ahead of your arrival and requested that you meet with us and with several other Israelis whose close family members were murdered by Palestinian Arab terrorists.

We felt this would be an opportunity you would grab, assuming circumstances permitted of course. We laid out our reasons several times. Your memory can be refreshed by clicking here: "Memo to Secretary of State Kerry: Your staff need some urgent guidance" which we wrote to you on September 14, 2013.

Unfortunately, our request was politely rebuffed earlier this week - just as it was on each previous occasion. Too little time, too much to do etc. We understand how it is. Believe me, we understand.

Now a few words (once again) about what's behind our request.

There's a wall-to-wall viewpoint here in Israel that you and your State Department colleagues are behind the pressure that has brought Israel's government to free more than a hundred convicted murderers in four tranches of 26 each time, starting in the summer. The process is half-way through and the next release is approaching fast.

It's thought by pretty much everyone we know that you see this mass release of lawfully arrested, lawfully tried, lawfully convicted and lawfully sentenced felons as a way to drag the unwilling Palestinian Authority leadership to the peace-negotiation table.

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