Economy Minister Naftali Bennett attacked U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry over his comments Friday connecting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and extremism in the Middle East.

"It turns out that even when a British Muslim decapitates a British Christian, there will always be someone to blame the Jew," he said. "There is no justifying terror, only fighting it. To say that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is strengthening the Islamic State is encouraging global terror."

Bennett suggested listening to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, and believing the terror group.

"These are terrorists who want to control the entire Middle East from Syria to Jordan and Lebanon, and to reestablish an Islamic caliphate," he said. "You can either fight this or explain this. The choice is in the world's hands, and it will bear the consequences."

The secretary of state drew a line between the need for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the fight against extremism in the Middle East, and urged for the realization of the two-state solution while speaking at a State Department ceremony marking the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

The struggle to reach a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said Kerry, should be viewed within the context of the fight against extremism such as is personified by the Islamic State group.

"As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the [anti-Islamic State] 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 – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to," said Kerry.

"And people need to understand the connection of that... It has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of all of that."

"So what we need to do is recognize that we need to build peace through specific partnerships. One partnership is specifically the effort to try to drive towards this peace, to have a compromise, to find a way to create two states that can live together side by side, two peoples, with both of their aspirations being respected. I still believe that’s possible, and I still believe we need to work towards it. We also need to figure out how."

Communications Minister Gilad Erdan also attacked Kerry saying, "Kerry is breaking records for a lack of understanding of what is going on in our region and the essence of the conflicts therein."

The minister said Palestinian intransigence and incitement were the only things prevent any attempt to renew negotiations. "Does anybody really believe that Islamic State's war criminals will stop their atrocities and abandon the vision of an Islamic state because negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians were renewed?" Erdan said.

Erdan suggested that Kerry listen to his president before rushing to make declarations that are liable to encourage moral contemptibility.