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Israeli Foreign Minister: "It's in UK's Interest that Radical Islamists Are Defeated in Middle East"

(Telegraph-UK) Allister Heath - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said during a recent visit to Britain, "The UK is a good friend of Israel. For us, it is important to keep this friendship....In my conversations with the Foreign Secretary, I bring a very accurate and frank approach when I think that the British position should be, let's say, more friendly to Israel, or take into greater consideration our reality, the neighborhood we are living in." "When terrorists from Hamas or Islamic Jihad are acting from a hospital, and we take all the measures, including warning and evacuating people from there to avoid any unnecessary collateral damage, eventually, the question that should be asked is not why we attack, but why Hamas are using hospitals or schools or UNRWA installations to attack Israel and its citizens. We don't always feel that we are getting the right context." "We not only have a traditional friendship, but also very important connections that help UK national security through intelligence and security cooperation. Both countries benefit from a good relationship." Responding to Emmanuel Macron's announcement that the French are proposing to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, Sa'ar said, "They will not create a Palestinian state by this wishful or imaginary decision." He pointed out that many countries have recognized a Palestinian state, but that it hasn't changed the "reality on the ground." He worries that it would remove the Palestinians' incentives to compromise or negotiate. "It will decrease the chances of achieving peace and stability in the future. Palestinians are working in multilateral forums and the international arena to isolate and harm Israel, not to have peace." "Jihadism is a common threat to all of Western civilization, including the UK. We are fighting to defend ourselves. But while doing so, we are also fighting the fight of all the Western world, and this is something important for me to say to UK citizens, because I know that most of them perfectly understand the danger, the deep danger of such an extremist ideology....It is clearly in the interest of Europe, of the UK, that the radical Islamists in the Middle East be defeated."
2025-04-20 00:00:00
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