Israeli Foreign Policy
Vugar Gurbanov, counselor for the Embassy Azerbaijan in the United States, delivered a speech following an interfaith prayer service and labeled the event, organized by Jewish and Muslim organizations, “a good example of interfaith cooperation.”
U.S. President Trump’s Mideast peace envoy lashes out on twitter at P.A. daily after official newspaper runs column comparing him to a “monogoloid • “The comments are disgusting and demonstrate a complete disregard for the dignity of every human life,” says Greenblatt.
“We appreciate your friendship, your support in international forums and your support for Israel joining the Asia Development Bank,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“From a great athlete, you’ve become a great leader,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told George Weah, who was elected president of Liberia in December 2017.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has also repeatedly promised to relocate the Brazilian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Israeli communities in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria would remain in place, but not be expanded. Security checkpoints would be reduced, allowing for more freedom of movement for people and goods.
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s concerns about the Kushner interview on Sky News Arabia: “There’s a clear and immediate danger in front of us: the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israel’s i24 news channel, “I am the son of Holocaust survivors, we will never forgive and never forget, and there were many Poles who collaborated with the Nazis.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the leaders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary would instead hold separate meeting with Israeli leaders.
Rising pro-Israel activist Tremanye Smith says, “With any kind of movement, you’re going to have a far spectrum of folks on the fringes. If groups took time to see the entire scope, and their ideology is to protest human-rights abuses, then they would probably have a change of heart.”
A senior Palestinian official said that Abbas was interested in keeping the influential Arab states—Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Persian Gulf Arab states—from endorsing the plan.
