Friday, 5 September 2014

Kerry Reaches Out to Israel for Help Combating ISIS

'Global Coalition to Fight the “medieval savagery” of ISIS'

# 01 US Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are in talks about establishing a global coalition to fight the “medieval savagery” of ISIS, the US State Department said on Wednesday. . . .
# 02 . . . State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed that Israel was among a small number of countries contacted by Kerry after the beheading of two American journalists by ISIS. In a frenzied round of telephone diplomacy, the secretary of state also contacted officials in Australia, Italy, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. ....
# 03 . . . US President Barack Obama has called for international unity in combating ISIS. Commenting on Sotloff’s gruesome death, Kerry told a ceremony honoring the new special US envoy to Muslim countries, “The real face of Israel is not what we saw yesterday, when the world bore witness again to the unfathomable brutality of ISIL terrorist murders.” ....

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