#Israel FM @Gabi_Ashkenazi: I would like to thank the US for its dedicated action, led by President Trump and Secretary Pompeo, at the #UN#SecurityCouncil, in preventing the lifting of #Iran's arms embargo. >>
.@Gabi_Ashkenazi: ...I call upon all countries to stand alongside the US, to refrain from sale if weapons to #Iran and enforcing the sanctions in their entirety. >>
.@Gabi_Ashkenazi: ... I call on our friends, the E3 countries – France, Britain, and Germany – to pullback their opposition and work towards a rigorous implemention of the sanctions regime on #Iran, both on state level, as well as on the #EU level and within the #UN bodies.
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It is clear from this shameful and disingenuous post that lives of Israelis simply do not matter to the Secretary General of the #UnitedNations.
Some facts missing:
1. Hezbollah has launched the unprovoked attack against Israeli civilian communities already on October 8th.
2. Due to the Hezbollah terrorist threat, dozens of thousands of Israeli civilians have been forced to leave their homes in Northern Israel & are currently refugees in their own country.
3. This is a blatant Lebanese violation of Security Council Resolutions 1701 & 1559, that your organization has failed to enforce.
4. Hezbollah is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s terrorist proxy. Iran is behind the military escalation in region. When will you acknowledge that?
THREAD @IsraelMFA: Israel welcomes the verdict for life imprisonment without parole by the Criminal Court in #Bulgaria of the two members of the #Hezbollah terrorist organization for their part in the murderous attack committed at the Burgas airport on July 19th 2012. (1/4)
>> an attack in which five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus driver were murdered.
Israel has been claiming all along that #Hezbollah terrorist organization was behind this attack and that the organization itself, as well as its leadership, (2/4)
>> which have commandeered the attack, need to be brought to justice.
#Hezbollah is a terrorist organization responsible for attacks around the world, including deadly ones on #European soil. (3/4)
THREAD @IsraelMFA Director-General @AlonUshpiz led today the first meeting on the establishment of diplomatic relations between #Israel & the #UAE with teams from the United Arab Emirates & the United States.
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The parties discussed the possibility of the mutual opening of embassies & the signing of bilateral agreements aimed at promoting the relationship between the countries.
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.@AlonUshpiz: “We are at the beginning of a historic process, & intend to promote the establishment of full diplomatic relations and the opening of embassies in both countries as swiftly as possible...” 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇦🇪(3/4)
1- We thank the NYC elected officials & community leaders who spoke out against this display of bigotry against Israel. This diverse group of leaders represents what makes the unique relationship between New York and Israel strong and enduring.
2- For many decades NYC officials and other leaders had traveled to Israel to learn about the reality there. During these visits, they engaged with Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians to form their own opinions.
• On the eve of Christmas 2019, approximately 177,000 Christians live in Israel;
• they comprise about 2% of the State of Israel's population;
• In 2018, the Christian population grew by 1.5%
• 77.5% of the Christians in #Israel are Arab Christians. They constitute 7.2% of the total Arab population.
• The localities with the largest Arab Christian populations are #Nazareth (21,900), #Haifa (16,100), #Jerusalem (12,700), and Shefar'am (10,300), as of the end of 2018
• Women constituted 74.4% of Christian students studying toward a second degree, compared to women constituting 63.1% of all students studying toward a second degree.
• For third degrees, the percentages were 62.8% and 53.2%, respectively.