David Harsanyi on John Kerry's 'Apartheid' Myth

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After The Daily Beast released excerpts of his warning world leaders that Israel would devolve into an "apartheid" state if it failed to agree to a peace deal, Secretary of State John Kerry walked back his comments. "If I could rewind the tape," he explained, "I would have chosen a different word to describe my firm belief that the only way in the long term to have a Jewish state and two nations and two peoples living side by side in peace and security is through a two-state solution."

This shouldn't make anyone feel better, argues David Harsanyi. It's not just Kerry's incendiary use of "apartheid" that's the problem but the well-worn canard about Israel that Kerry rests his position on.