Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Photo: State Department.

Jerusalem Post – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he hopes a new Israeli government will  be amenable to negotiations, in the first official American comment on Israel’s government crisis.

“We hope that whatever government is formed is a government that will – or whether there are elections, that those elections will produce — the possibility of a government that can negotiate and move towards resolving the differences between Israelis and Palestinians, and obviously, the differences in the region,” he said while speaking Tuesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

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