Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres once again highlighted the difference in their positions on the Iranian nuclear threat, as they commented on feedback from last week’s talks between western negotiators and Iran in Kazakhstan, over the Islamist regime’s nuclear weapons programme.
Students at the prestigious Oxford University this week overwhelmingly rejected a motion which called for support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), the campaign for the boycott of Israel.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday criticized Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan’s remarks likening Zionism to crimes against humanity, during his visit in Ankara.
Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren welcomed Chuck Hagel’s confirmation as the new Defence Secretary Tuesday, as he declared himself “fully confident” that the close ties that Israel had established during President Barack Obama’s first term in office “will grow stronger still as our countries continue to meet common challenges to our security”.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to reignite his country’s feud with Israel Wednesday, despite reports of bilateral diplomatic attempts to normalise relations between the estranged former allies in recent weeks, as he told the Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna that Zionism constitutes a “crime against humanity”.
