Ya'alon: Kerry peace move has failed

 Israeli 'Defense' Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the US Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace initiative has failed so far and that the Arab League proposals - which Kerry has praised - is nothing more than “spin.”

In an address to the Washington Institute in advance of his meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Ya'alon said that Kerry’s plan to bring the sides to the table had missed its June 7 deadline and had “failed so far.”

He dismissed the recent Arab League agreement for “territorial swaps” between Israel and the Palestinians and the Arab initiative as a whole as nothing more than “spin” and a “dictation” to Israel to give up territory before discussing its own demands.

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry has praised the Arab League move as a significant step towards peace.