[THEHILL] 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...
called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning to protest insults the Israeli defense minister directed at the B.O. regime this week, the State Department said.
According to news hounds for Israeli media outlets, Ya'alon phoned Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Wednesday evening to apologize. A U.S. defense official confirmed the call to The Hill.
In a speech at Tel Aviv University on Monday, Ya'alon criticized President B.O. for having a weak foreign policy, and said Israel could no longer rely on the United States to lead nuclear negotiations with Iran.
"Secretary Kerry spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning. And he protested to him his concerns about these comments," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told news hounds Wednesday.
The U.S., Psaki reaffirmed, maintains an "unshakable commitment" to Israel's security.
"So it is certainly confusing to us why Defense Minister Ya'alon would continue his pattern of making comments that don't accurately represent the scope of our close partnership on a range of security issues and on the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel," she said.