Caroline Glick, an editor at The Jerusalem Post, told Arutz-7 today that Kurtzer has long been involved in attempts to set the national consensus in Israel and "tell us what's good for us and what's bad for us." Asked why Kurtzer continually finds himself making such controversial statements - something that his predecessor Martin Indyk, who also was not considered a great friend of Israel, did not do, Glick said, "First of all, because he is blatantly tactless. Secondly, he has apparently not received any appropriate Israeli reaction to what he says, so he keeps on doing it..."
She said that in sharp contrast to his outspokenness here in Israel, Kurtzer "never once spoke out against the wild Nazi-like incitement against Israel in the Egyptian media and politics" when he was Ambassador to Egypt.
Glick said that Ambassador Kurtzer's words show the hollowness of his worldview: "He said that it cannot be that the Arab world continues to see its recognition of Israel as a bargaining chip with which to negotiate - and then in the very next sentence, he praised the Saudi plan which says that in exchange for Israel's total withdrawal to the [May] 1967 lines, the Arab world would agree to recognize Israel."
She said that in sharp contrast to his outspokenness here in Israel, Kurtzer "never once spoke out against the wild Nazi-like incitement against Israel in the Egyptian media and politics" when he was Ambassador to Egypt.
Glick said that Ambassador Kurtzer's words show the hollowness of his worldview: "He said that it cannot be that the Arab world continues to see its recognition of Israel as a bargaining chip with which to negotiate - and then in the very next sentence, he praised the Saudi plan which says that in exchange for Israel's total withdrawal to the [May] 1967 lines, the Arab world would agree to recognize Israel."