''If Israel is attacked and threatened, it will not be alone. We as human beings cannot allow there to be a threat to the Jewish people and the State of Israel,'' former French President Nicolas Sarkozy said this week in a speech at the Academic College in Netanya where he received an honorary doctorate.
The European Union is poised to blacklist the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following a formal request from Britain to pursue such a designation.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius, whose country is to take over the EU six-month rotating presidency in July, said this week Israel should take the issue of settlement products labeling seriously.
On the eve of British Foreign Minister William Hague to Israel, an Israeli cabinet minister expressed dismay at the growing antagonism against Israel in the UK, as he attacked attitudes towards his country as “disguised anti-Semitism.’’
or the past decade, England’s Football Association, or F.A., has trained dozens of Israeli activists who hope to re-create what they view as the F.A.’s success in reducing widespread displays of racism that tarnished the image of English soccer.
In Friends of Syria meeting in Amman, UK's foreign secretary Hague says Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hezbollah are ''propping up'' Assad, whose regime is ''increasingly dependent on external support.''
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has demanded a clarification in Belgian daily newspaper Metro which, his spokesperson said, misquoted him as saying that “Hungary wants to count the Jews.”
