The American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, on Wednesday criticized Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on the Middle East , saying it was “a failed attempt to defend the indefensible.” “Contrary to Secretary of State Kerry’s address today, the United Nations Security Council resolution that the administration unconscionably failed to block was unfair, unbalanced and represented a profound departure from the policies of previous Democratic and Republican administrations for nearly the past forty years.