Secretary of State John Kerry called today’s terror attack in Jerusalem the “pure result of incitement” and called on “Palestinian leadership at every single level to condemn this in the most powerful terms.” Here’s video:
“This morning, today, in Jerusalem, Palestinians attacked Jews who were praying in a synagogue. The people who had come to worship God in the sanctuary of a synagogue were hatcheted and hacked and murdered in that holy place, in an act of pure terror and senseless brutality and murder,” Kerry said in a statement.
“I call on the Palestinian leadership at every single level to condemn this in the most powerful terms. This violence has no place anywhere, and to have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for days of rage, of just an irresponsibility, it is unacceptable. So, the Palestinian leadership must condemn this, and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement that comes from their language, from other people’s language, and exhibit the kind of leadership that is necessary to put this region on a different path.”
President Obama, on the other hand, called on both sides to “lower tensions.”
