Int’l Standing Improves as Netanyahu Announces First Ever Visits to 3 Nations

A handshake across the world. Israeli PM Netanyahu & Danish Ambassador Jesper Vahr. Illustrative. Photo courtesy of Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)

A handshake across the world. Israeli PM Netanyahu & Danish Ambassador Jesper Vahr. Illustrative. Photo courtesy of Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)

Israel is unfairly attacked at the United Nations and other places by the bloc of Arab nations and their allies, but that doesn’t mean Israel is giving up on good relations with the world. Instead, the travel schedule for Israel’s leaders highlights their push to expand their international standing. “In two weeks, President Reuven Rivlin will leave on a visit to India… In the next three months, I will leave for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Singapore and Australia. For three of these, if I am not mistaken, it will be the first visit by an Israeli Prime Minister,” noted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in comments released by his office on Sunday

The Israeli leader believes the Jewish state’s efforts are paying off. The latest example were steps by Tanzania and Croatia which limited the impact of a recent anti-Israel vote at UNESCO. “In effect, they torpedoed the practical effect of the second UNESCO decision by preventing consensus,” said Netanyahu. “This is an additional indication of the major online medical viagra change that is taking place in Israel’s global relations, in direct proportion to Israel’s strength.”

All the travel and diplomatic steps, such as the interactions with African nations at the United Nations earlier this year, demonstrate a global focus by Israel. “Israel’s international relations are developing in Asia, Africa, Latin America and in many other places,” said Netanyahu. “We are aware that this development stems from the economic and technological strengthening of Israel on the one hand and our security and intelligence capabilities on the other. Both of these facilitate the development and flourishing of our international relations.”

And as the Tanzania and Croatia actions at UNESCO showed, even when the situation isn’t especially, positive for Israel, there are small victories that offer hope. “This is not to say that we will not be challenged in international forums, like we saw in the scandalous UNESCO decisions, and it is likely that this will continue at the UN,” said Netanyahu, “but there is no doubt that even in international institutions, even in these scandalous votes, we have seen a change.”

(By Joshua Spurlock, www.themideastupdate.com, October 30, 2016)

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