Israeli Calls Back Ambassador to Switzerland
Written by: Aaron Katsman | April 20, 2009
The new Israeli foreign policy is on display, and it sure is refreshing. Gone is cow-towing to all world leaders in the hope that they will ‘like Israel’ in exchange for them to pressure Israel into committing national suicide. The new policy, put forth by new FM Avigdor Lieberman, is to stand up for principle, and if you don’t like it, tough. Even if it mean souring diplomatic relations.
The latest episode comes after Lieberman called back to Israel, ambassador Ilan Elgar, in protest of the Swiss president meeting with Iranian madman Mamoud Ahmadinejad.
According to Ynet: “Even before the meeting, state officials in Jerusalem expressed their anger and resentment. “There’s no reason in the world for meeting with a Holocaust denier, the president of a country exporting terror, hatred and anti-Semitism,” one of the sources said.
“A meeting with Ahmadinejad badly damages the international moral coalition against Iran and serves as a dishonorable move which should never take place. A head of state who has some respect for himself should not shake the hand of the Holocaust denier from Tehran.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed Ahmadinejad’s participation in the conference at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting Monday, saying that “While we remember the six million (Jews murdered in the Holocaust), a conference will be held in Switzerland allegedly against racism. Its guest of honor is a Holocaust denier who does not conceal his plan to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
“I congratulate the countries which chose to boycott the conference. Contrary to those dark days, today we have a strong Jewish state,” he said, adding that “Unfortunately, not everyone has learned the lesson of the Holocaust.”
Well I guess that the one country that hasn’t learned the lesson of the Holocaust is the same country whose banks stole hundreds of millions of Jewish money during the Holocaust.
Kind of ironic, no?
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