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ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
Israel to Sweden on Palestinian state .
"Intelligent people have humor," Margot Wallström says of her back and forth with Liberman.
Flag of Sweden.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said on Friday,
issuing his metaphoric response to attack Sweden’s recognition of a Palestinian state last week.
In an interview on Army Radio, Nahshon explained that Israel had recalled its ambassador to Sweden, Isaac Bachman, for consultations for an unspecified period of time.
“This is a very serious step that clearly expresses our feelings about Sweden’s decision,” Nahshon said.
Sweden’s recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday ran counter to its past policies with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nahshon said.
Sweden is considered a friendly ally with strong economic ties to Israel, said Nahshon.
“So this decision, which was taken without any consultations with Israel, was a surprise,” Nahshon said.
Wallstrom told CNN that her country expected Israel to criticize its decision.
“We expected them also to use the diplomatic tools that they have available to them,” she said, adding that she believed Sweden’s move would not impact her country’s relationship with Israel.
“I am confident that this will not destroy the excellent cooperation and relations that we have between our two countries. We will from outside continue to invest in that,” she told CNN.
Sweden believes that the time is right to recognize “Palestine” as a state because it has fulfilled the legal obligations necessary to achieve that status, Wallstrom said.
“Also, it is timely because we have had a very serious situation on the ground. We have seen new settlements.
We have seen more violence and also a tendency to radicalization of young people, especially,” she said.
“We hope that we can make the parties a little less unequal, that we might inject some new dynamics into the suspended peace talks and also give hope to young people that there is an alternative to more violence and war,” Wallstrom said.
She noted that a majority of nations around the world had already taken that same step.
According to the PLO, 138 nations already recognize “Palestine” as a state, including three EU members – Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – that did so before joining the EU.
Sweden is the first EU member state to recognize “Palestine” as a state.
Last month, France told the UN Security Council that sooner or later it would have to do so as well.
Nahshon told Army Radio he did not believe other European powers would follow suit at this time.
Such recognition, he said, prevents the resumption of peace talks because it does not give the Palestinians any incentive to return to the negotiating table.
~News.
Thank you Sweden.
Thank you for reading,
~Wassalam
greeting,
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
Israel to Sweden on Palestinian state .
"Intelligent people have humor," Margot Wallström says of her back and forth with Liberman.
Flag of Sweden.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said on Friday,
issuing his metaphoric response to attack Sweden’s recognition of a Palestinian state last week.
In an interview on Army Radio, Nahshon explained that Israel had recalled its ambassador to Sweden, Isaac Bachman, for consultations for an unspecified period of time.
“This is a very serious step that clearly expresses our feelings about Sweden’s decision,” Nahshon said.
Sweden’s recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday ran counter to its past policies with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nahshon said.
Sweden is considered a friendly ally with strong economic ties to Israel, said Nahshon.
“So this decision, which was taken without any consultations with Israel, was a surprise,” Nahshon said.
Wallstrom told CNN that her country expected Israel to criticize its decision.
“We expected them also to use the diplomatic tools that they have available to them,” she said, adding that she believed Sweden’s move would not impact her country’s relationship with Israel.
“I am confident that this will not destroy the excellent cooperation and relations that we have between our two countries. We will from outside continue to invest in that,” she told CNN.
Sweden believes that the time is right to recognize “Palestine” as a state because it has fulfilled the legal obligations necessary to achieve that status, Wallstrom said.
“Also, it is timely because we have had a very serious situation on the ground. We have seen new settlements.
We have seen more violence and also a tendency to radicalization of young people, especially,” she said.
“We hope that we can make the parties a little less unequal, that we might inject some new dynamics into the suspended peace talks and also give hope to young people that there is an alternative to more violence and war,” Wallstrom said.
She noted that a majority of nations around the world had already taken that same step.
According to the PLO, 138 nations already recognize “Palestine” as a state, including three EU members – Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – that did so before joining the EU.
Sweden is the first EU member state to recognize “Palestine” as a state.
Last month, France told the UN Security Council that sooner or later it would have to do so as well.
Nahshon told Army Radio he did not believe other European powers would follow suit at this time.
Such recognition, he said, prevents the resumption of peace talks because it does not give the Palestinians any incentive to return to the negotiating table.
~News.
Thank you Sweden.
Thank you for reading,
~Wassalam
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