John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born 11 December 1943) is an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 election, which he lost to incumbent President George W. Bush.
Life
Kerry served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, and was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is notorious for his membership in the Skull and Bones secret society. Kerry states that he is a Catholic and personally against abortion, but he supports a woman's legal right to have one.
On September 17, 2007, John Kerry was having an open meeting for questions at University of Florida in Gainesville. Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old fourth-year undergraduate mass communication student, took part in the questions and asked Kerry about his involvement in the Skull and Bones secret society. Meyer's microphone was cut off and he was roughed up by police and tased despite him begging not to be tased. Kerry has publically refused to speak about his involvement in Skull and Bones.
In August 2013, as United States Secretary of State, Kerry began trying to plunge the world into war in Syria with provocative speech. He also like John McCain and others has illegally snuck into Syria to have in-person meetings with the Israeli-US mercenaries who are gassing Syrian civilians and trying to pin it on Syria. Kerry also made the European Union to postpone the funding ban in Israeli-occupied territories of Palestine. And has been working to imprison the West Bank behind a massive security fence along Jordanian border.
In October 2013, Kerry has demanded that US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan get immunity toward all the war crimes they have committed (e.g. white phosphorus, depleted uranium, mass murdering civilians). On 25 April 2014, at the Trilateral Commission, Kerry said that Israel needs to make peace with the Palestinians or risk becoming an "apartheid state". House majority leader Republican Eric Cantor demanded Kerry apologize. It was revealed that Israel wiretapped Kerry’s calls during peace talks in the Middle East.
He ran for the US Presidency in the 2004 election, but lost to George W. Bush. He later served as the United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama.
Family
Kerry's paternal grandparents were Jewish but converted to Catholicism. His brother Cam Kerrry has converted to Judaism. He has generally supported various pro-Israel policies, although this may also be related to the influence of the powerful Israel lobby. Kerry has sometimes supported policies and made statements disliked by more extreme Zionists, such as criticizing Israel's settlement policies and stating that Israel risks becoming an apartheid state if peace talks fails.