[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
said on Monday Israeli and Paleostinian leaders need to clarify the status of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound to help end a spate of bloodshed and restore stability.
Kerry, preparing for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Germany and then with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and Jordan's King Abdullah, likely in Amman, also rejected a proposal by La Belle France at the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
for an international observer presence at the holy site.
Israel called in La Belle France's ambassador on Monday to make clear its opposition to the idea, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.
"Israel understands the importance of the status quo and ... our objective is to make sure that everyone understands what that means," Kerry told a news conference in Madrid.
The Paleostinians' unrest, the most serious in years, has been stirred in part by anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on the mosque compound, Islam's most sacred site outside Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and also revered by Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples.
Netanyahu has said his government is committed to maintaining the status quo at the compound, which has long been under Muslim religious administration while Jews are permitted to visit the site but not pray there.
"We are not seeking a new change or outsiders to come in, I don't think Israel or Jordan wants that and we're not proposing it," he said. "What we need is clarity."