‘’The only liberal democracy in the Middle East will never be a bigger problem than the evil dictatorships and terrorist groups in the surrounding region,’’ Member of the European Parliament Lars Adaktusson from Sweden said in a recent debate in the parliament over the EU’s role in the Middle East Peace Process.
On Thursday, 17 September, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with Israeli Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Zeev Elkin.
The European Union has warned against any “provocation,” after three consecutive days of clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Muslims on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his British counterpart David Cameron that he is ready to return to peace talks with the Palestinians ‘’’’without pre-conditions, during their meeting at 10 Downing Street on Thursday.
Republican opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran suffered a major blow as they failed to muster enough support in the US Senate to force a vote on the agreement.
Israel has reopened its embassy in Cairo after a four-year hiatus, marking a new step in the further increase in cooperation between the two countries.
The AJC Transatlantic Institute expressed disappointment that the European Parliament did not endorse the principle of “two states for two peoples” in a resolution on the EU’s role in the Middle East peace process adopted Thursday in Strasbourg.
‘’Europe needs to support Israel, not pressure Israel and not attack Israel, but support Israel, which is the only true protection Europe has in the Middle East against surging extremist Islam,’’ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday as he left for an official two-day visit to the UK.
As EU Council President Donald Tusk starts Tuesday a two-day visit to Israel, Jerusalem voiced strong opposition during a high-level diplomatic meeting with the EU over its plans to label goods produced beyond the Green Line, a step which is viewed as ‘’very grave’’, Israeli diplomatic officials quoted by The Jerusalem Post said.
