--- ---  # Watch Live: Secretary of State John Kerry Makes Final Push for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 28, 2016 3:53 PM UTC  US State Secretary John Kerry gives a speech at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, on October 4, 2016. US State Secretary John Kerry gives a speech at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, on October 4, 2016.EMMANUEL DUNAND—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 28, 2016 3:53 PM UTC Secretary of State [John Kerry](http://time.com/4301293/john-kerry-2016-time-100/) on Wednesday will outline the Obama administration’s vision for an end to the intractable, decades-long conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as [President Obama](http://time.com/4302043/barack-obama-2016-time-100/) ends his time in office [in sharp conflict with Israeli leaders](http://time.com/4617751/israel-netanyahu-obama-un-vote/) following [a United Nations vote to condemn the country’s settlement activity](http://time.com/4617595/united-nations-israel-settlement-vote/). Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu](http://time.com/3822851/benjamin-netanyahu-2015-time-100/) is counting the days until President-elect [Donald Trump](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/) takes office, having blamed Obama for what Netanyahu called the “shameful ambush” of the U.N. Security Council vote. The United States abstained from the vote but allowed it to go forward by not vetoing it, in what amounted to a historic rebuke of Israel by the U.S. and marked a low point in the often contentious relationship between Obama and Netanyahu. [Kerry’s speech amounts to a final plea](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/us/politics/john-kerry-speech-israel-palestinians.html) before the coming policy shift of the incoming Trump administration, and is unlikely to have much effect. The speech is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. E.T., and you can watch it live above. John Kerry Israeli-Palestinian Peace Speech Livestream ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4618894/john-kerry-israeli-palestinian-speech-livestream-free-online/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4618894/john-kerry-israeli-palestinian-speech-livestream-free-online/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Secretary of State John Kerry Makes Final Push for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal","datePublished":"2016-12-28T15:53:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:29:18.990Z","description":"John Kerry will outline the Obama administration's vision for an end to the intractable conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians","url":"https://time.com/4618894/john-kerry-israeli-palestinian-speech-livestream-free-online/","keywords":["diplomacy","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7308a1bb4dcc853c/6988a91bcf40a87934c4514e/john-kerry-war-crimes-syria-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7308a1bb4dcc853c/6988a91bcf40a87934c4514e/john-kerry-war-crimes-syria-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BELGIUM-EU-US","caption":"US State Secretary John Kerry gives a speech at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, on October 4, 2016.","creditText":"EMMANUEL DUNAND—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/diplomacy/","name":"diplomacy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4618894/john-kerry-israeli-palestinian-speech-livestream-free-online/","name":"Watch Live: Secretary of State John Kerry Makes Final Push for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal"}}]}] ```