U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) looks up towards an artwork during a tour of a section of the Vatican with Chief of Protocol Monsignor Jose Avelino Bettencourt January 14, 2014. REUTERS/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Pool
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's hawkish defence minister apologised to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday after a newspaper quoted him scorning the diplomat's quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace as messianic and obsessive.
Moshe Yaalon did not deny making the closed-door remarks published on the front page of the best-selling Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which drew rare condemnation from Washington and added to acrimony over Jewish settlement of occupied West Bank land where the Palestinians seek statehood.
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