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John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, has been strongly criticized for seeming to blame Israel for the recruitment of young Muslims by ISIS.

Mr. Kerry caused anger among right-wing MPs when he suggested that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians would help the campaign to defeat the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).

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“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the [anti-ISIS] coalition… there wasn’t a leader I met with in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt they had to respond to,” Mr. Kerry told a state department gathering to mark the Muslim Eid Al-Adha festival.

That triggered an angry response from Naftali Bennett, Israel’s industry minister and leader of the far-Right Jewish Home party, who implied that Mr. Kerry was fostering anti-Semitism.