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Author: ProCon.org
John Kerry, JD Biography
- Title:
- US Secretary of State
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state…
Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two-state solution.”
“Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State,'” thedailybeast.com, Apr. 27, 2014
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- US Secretary of State, Feb. 1, 2013-present
- US Senator (D-MA), Jan. 3, 1985–Feb. 1, 2013
- Chair, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Member, US Senate Finance Committee
- Member, US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation
- Member, US Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- Democratic Nominee, US President, 2004
- Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts, 1982-1984
- First Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney of Middlesex County, 1977-1979
- Prosecutor, Office of the District Attorney of Middlesex County, 1976-1977
- Passed the Massachusetts Bar, 1976
- Executive Director, Mass Action, Massachusetts, 1974
- Fundraiser, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), 1972-1973
- Founding Member, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), 1970
- Lieutenant, US Navy, 1970
- Lieutenant Junior grade, US Navy, 1968
- Inducted, Skull and Bones Society, 1967
- Education:
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- JD, Boston College Law School, 1976
- Attended, US Navy Officer Candidate School, 1967
- BA, Political Science, Yale University, 1966
- Other:
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- Born Dec. 11, 1943 in Aurora, CO
- He is married with five children
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