John Kerry

Blinken’s last bow: A hopeful blueprint haunted by October 7 - analysis

While Blinken criticized settlements—citing continued expansion and extremist violence—his analysis was a far more nuanced goodbye to the region than former Secretary of State John Kerry.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, December 5, 2024 (illustration).
 YASSER ARAFAT reaches to shake hands with Yitzhak Rabin, as Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, at the White House on September 13, 1993.

There is a possible path to peace - opinion

 Meeting on June 2, 2023 between US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman

In Israel, Kerry says US to deepen climate collaboration with Jewish state

 John Kerry, Tamar Zandberg, and other representatives at the climate summit in Egypt.

Israel joins US initiative for zero emissions plan for 2050


John Kerry: Climate change top priority for Joe Biden administration

"President Biden knows that we have to be mobilized in unprecedented ways to meet a challenge that is fast accelerating."

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace at the Department of State in Washington December 28, 2016

Why John Kerry and others were wrong about peace and Israel - analysis

Kerry said in 2016 that “there will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that."

US Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace at the Department of State in Washington December 28, 2016

John Kerry agrees with Iran’s Zarif: We declared 'economic war'

The former US presidential candidate, now a foreign policy chief, said that the US had been concerned about Iran’s support for Hezbollah and its missile program.

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, at the United Nations in New York, September 26, 2015.

When tragedy becomes farce

The Palestinian leadership threatened that if it did not receive $61 million in “security cooperation” money from the US government, it would stop cooperating with Israel.

Bus flipped by tractor in Jerusalem terror attack.

Arab Press: What happened in the skies over Syria?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

John Kerry attends the NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8, 2016.

Trump, Pompeo accuse Kerry of illegal meetings with Iranian counterparts

Pompeo accused Kerry of “actively undermining U.S. policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of.”

US President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw from the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement during a statement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington, US, May 8, 2018

John Kerry vents frustration over working with Netanyahu in new book

Kerry writes that he lost trust in the Israeli PM.

Kerry, Netanyahu in Tel Aviv July 23

Obama, Kerry slam Trump withdrawal from Iran deal as path to war

"We could be hastening the day when we are faced with the choice between living with that threat, or going to war to prevent it," the former president said.

Former US president Barack Obama

Trump slams Kerry for 'possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy'

President accuses former secretary of state of negotiating "mess" of a nuclear deal with Iran.

 Compilation photo showing US President Donald Trump and then US Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif

Report: Kerry met Iranian foreign minister in attempt to salvage nuclear deal

Zarif insisted on Thursday that his government has implemented its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, at the United Nations in New York, September 26, 2015.