{"id":15149,"date":"2018-09-15T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2018-09-15T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T08:23:38","slug":"netanyahu-ally-israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15149","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu ally: Israel is not an apartheid state"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since US\u00a0President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0took office in 2017, his administration has been criticised for\u00a0various measures<\/a>\u00a0seemingly taken against the Palestinians and in favour of Israel, including the\u00a0recent decision<\/a>\u00a0to close the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO<\/a>)’s diplomatic mission in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

When asked about the negative effect such actions might have on future peace negotiations, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Dore Gold, said Trump was trying to introduce “realism” to the debate.<\/p>\n

“Let us get to a table and let us put those ideas out, and let’s try to resolve this once and for all,” said Gold. “In one very important sense, what President Trump is doing, he’s trying to introduce realism.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry<\/span>\u00a0also defended Israel’s controversial nation-state law, which says self-determination is unique to the Jewish people and that Israel is their historical homeland.<\/p>\n

Asked if the law\u00a0undermines the self-determination\u00a0<\/a>of Israeli-Palestinians, Gold responded: “I think that the law is there to make clear that\u00a0Israel<\/a>\u00a0is the national homeland of the Jewish people.”<\/p>\n

“I would say I would deny the rights of Canadians to have self-determination inside the United States,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since US\u00a0President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0took office in 2017, his administration has been criticised for\u00a0various measures\u00a0seemingly taken against the Palestinians and in favour of Israel, including the\u00a0recent decision\u00a0to close the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)’s diplomatic mission in Washington, DC. When asked about the negative effect such actions might have on future peace negotiations, the former Israeli ambassador to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}