It is remarkable that she did not get into the usual blame game that places Israel as the culprit.
Not this time around.
American media also are increasingly seeing through the Arab lie.
Associated Press journalist asked State Dept. deputy spokesman Mark Toner Tuesday afternoon if U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the same message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Abbas to stop incitement.
Lee clearly was implying that Israel has not incited any violence, but Toner was not able to go so far as to admit it.
He stumbled for 10 minutes not to answer Lee’s questions and repeated several times that Kerry encouraged both Netanyahu and Abbas to take steps to reduce tensions.
Toner could not directly answer Lee’s question:
Why is the message the same that both sides are not doing enough?
It can be assumed that the message was not the same.
Below is a video of the spokesman’s feeble attempt to answer questions:
