Israel's foreign ministry said Thursday that Israel's ties with Ireland, Norway and Spain will face "serious consequences" after their governments decided to recognise a Palestinian state from next week.
"There will be additional serious consequences for relations with their countries following the decision they made," the ministry statement quoted top official Jacob Blitstein as saying.
Blitstein was speaking during a meeting with the envoys of the three countries to "reprimand" them for their governments' move announced on Wednesday.
During the meeting, Israeli officials showed the three envoys a video of the kidnapping of five women soldiers during the October 7 attack by Hamas.
The three-minute clip, also released to the media on Wednesday, showed the women sitting on the ground, some with blood on their faces, with their hands tied following their capture from the Nahal Oz base in southern Israel.
The footage was taken from a two-hour video filmed on a body camera by Hamas militants during the attack, campaign group Hostage and Missing Families Forum said in a statement accompanying the clip.
At Thursday's meeting, Blitstein "reprimanded the ambassadors for the perverse decision of their governments to recognise a Palestinian state," the ministry statement said.
He said the recognition move makes it "more difficult to promote a deal for the release of hostages" still held in Gaza by Palestinian militants.
The coordinated announcements by the three governments came days after the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and defence minister as well as Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has visited several countries to drum up support for recognition, said the move would reinforce efforts to revive a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
Israel has reacted with fury, immediately recalling its envoys to the three countries.
"The intention of several European countries to recognise a Palestinian state is a reward for terror," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, adding that a sovereign State of Palestine would be a "terror state".
He said the recognition move makes it "more difficult to promote a deal for the release of hostages" still held in Gaza by Palestinian militants.
I wonder if the US would keep supplying Israel with weapons if they started bombing those countries.Knowing the hacks in the senate, probably.
Israel will prohibit the Spanish Embassy from providing services to West Bank Palestinians, Israel's foreign minister announced Friday, following Spain's move toward recognition of a Palestinian state and remarks by the deputy prime minister considered antisemitic by foreign minister Israel Katz.
"In response to Spain's recognition of a Palestinian state and the antisemitic call by Spain's Deputy Prime Minister to ... 'liberate Palestine from the river to the sea,' I have decided to ... prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank," Katz wrote on Friday in a post on X.
"If this ignorant, hate-filled individual wants to understand what radical Islam truly seeks, she should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus today's Spain," Katz added.
Those women were the frontline of defense, monitoring the border.
They had warned for months that Hamas was up to something, but were ignored.
US and Egyptian intelligence also warned the Israeli government in... IIRC September or August, but they brushed it off as bullshit.Israel also stopped monitoring Hamas radio traffic, calling it a "waste of time".
US and Egyptian intelligence also warned the Israeli government in... IIRC September or August, but they brushed it off as bullshit.
Israel also stopped monitoring Hamas radio traffic, calling it a "waste of time".
He said the recognition move makes it "more difficult to promote a deal for the release of hostages" still held in Gaza by Palestinian militants.
Give Palestine recognition. Set them up with a constitution and new political parties. Give them a government and self-determinism, and I think we can see things improve from there.
Did pepole forget we spent over twenty years trying to mold Afghanistan into a functional democracy only for it to be a total failure...how long do you think it would take to prop up Gaza as its own state so it would not end up to be as failed a state as Afghanistan?Gaza had democracy before Israel decided to fund Hamas just to fuck with their election.
Gaza had democracy before Israel decided to fund Hamas just to f*** with their election.
Did pepole forget we spent over twenty years trying to mold Afghanistan into a functional democracy only for it to be a total failure...how long do you think it would take to prop up Gaza as its own state so it would not end up to be as failed a state as Afghanistan?
...Oh for fuck's sake what a bunch of petty bullshit....I don't get it. Do they mean that the people that are dual national Spanish/Palestinian won't be able to use the services of their own embassy? Because I am pretty certain that is impossible and against every law ever related to embassies. You can't make it illegal for someone to access the services of his own state's embassy.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-24/ty-article/ israel-cuts-off-spanish-embassy-from-providing-services-to-west-bank- palestinians/0000018f-aa11-df13-a3af-be17e3620000
Katz says that Israel intends to retaliate in additional ways, as well.
I wonder if the US would keep supplying Israel with weapons if they started bombing those countries.
I don't think Ireland, Norway or Spain particularly care about Israel's threat.Seriously this reeks of big dick Russia energy here.
Did pepole forget we spent over twenty years trying to mold Afghanistan into a functional democracy only for it to be a total failure