Israeli Foreign Policy
Egypt announces three days of mourning following death of former president Hosni Mubarak, 91 • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Mubarak was a “personal friend” and “led his people to peace and security, to peace with Israel.”
Global economies, issues and relationships are crucial, but climate change, emphasized participants and youth organizers, “is the issue of the time.”
A new initiative by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs called Tevel (“universe” in Hebrew) focuses on Jewish leadership, history and advocacy skills.
Over the years, public-opinion polls demonstrate that Israeli-Arabs reject trading in their current passports for Palestinian ones.
“The joint mapping process is a major mission, and it will be completed as rapidly as possible,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In 2015, Prince Albert II apologized for Monaco’s deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. A memorial now stands in the Monaco Cemetery.
“The ‘deal of the century,’ the opportunity of the century; we’re never going to have something like this [again], and the only one who will implement it, is me,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
While the new U.S. Mideast proposal “is better than previous plans of previous administrations—anything we have seen over the last decades—a Palestinian state just a few miles from Israeli population centers is not part of my vision,” said Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar apparently avoided meeting with members of an Egyptian delegation out of fear that Israel would assassinate him.
Much of the diplomacy takes place over time and under the radar, says Malcolm Hoenlein, longtime executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, “by building meaningful relationships across the board.”
It’s “no more than a memo of understanding” between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, says Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
Speaking to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, the prime minister explained mechanics of the newly released “Peace to Prosperity” proposal, as well as changing relations between Israel and Muslim nations.
