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Middle East Inside Line: Israel's New PR Campaign
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 8:53
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Israel - No Arrests, The Americans Are in Town: According to Ha'aretz, Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank have been instructed by their commanders to cancel a number of planned arrest operations while American diplomats are touring inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem “to gather testimony on settlement construction, to oversee American-funded projects, and to meet with Palestinian Authority officials". One of the officers said: "We were told that the situation with the Americans is sensitive and that it is not desirable that operations are conducted that could lead to violent situations when they [the Americans] are there."
Israel's New PR Campaign: On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman publicly dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s “de-facto state” plan. He also said that there should not be any deadline for a future agreement between Palestinians and Israelis.
On the same day, the Jerusalem Post reported that Lieberman is working on a new campaign to fix Israel’s image in the eyes of Washington: "Government ministers Moshe Ya'alon, Yossi Peled, Dan Meridor and Benny Begin, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and former consul-general in New York Alon Pinkas, will begin on Sunday - in a staggered fashion - fanning out across America, meeting with political and media figures, policy-makers, campus groups and Jewish organizations, in an effort to explain the government's positions.”
Holding the Line on Israeli Settlements: Yossi Peled, Israeli Minister Without Portfolio, spoke at the gathering of Likud Party activists in Tel Aviv on Tuesday after accompanying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Europe. He assured the audience that the Prime Minister had not made any deal with the Obama Administration to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria and that he was not willing to do so:
I heard the prime minister say with my own ears that he has no intention of freezing construction in the settlements or in Jerusalem… He said there is no agreement to freeze construction in the settlements. I am telling you this first-hand.
Peled added that Netanyahu had said in his meetings in Europe that "Jews should be able to live wherever they want".
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Israel - No Arrests, The Americans Are in Town: According to Ha'aretz, Israeli soldiers serving in the West Bank have been instructed by their commanders to cancel a number of planned arrest operations while American diplomats are touring inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem “to gather testimony on settlement construction, to oversee American-funded projects, and to meet with Palestinian Authority officials". One of the officers said: "We were told that the situation with the Americans is sensitive and that it is not desirable that operations are conducted that could lead to violent situations when they [the Americans] are there."Israel's New PR Campaign: On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman publicly dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s “de-facto state” plan. He also said that there should not be any deadline for a future agreement between Palestinians and Israelis.
On the same day, the Jerusalem Post reported that Lieberman is working on a new campaign to fix Israel’s image in the eyes of Washington: "Government ministers Moshe Ya'alon, Yossi Peled, Dan Meridor and Benny Begin, as well as Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and former consul-general in New York Alon Pinkas, will begin on Sunday - in a staggered fashion - fanning out across America, meeting with political and media figures, policy-makers, campus groups and Jewish organizations, in an effort to explain the government's positions.”
Holding the Line on Israeli Settlements: Yossi Peled, Israeli Minister Without Portfolio, spoke at the gathering of Likud Party activists in Tel Aviv on Tuesday after accompanying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his trip to Europe. He assured the audience that the Prime Minister had not made any deal with the Obama Administration to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria and that he was not willing to do so:
I heard the prime minister say with my own ears that he has no intention of freezing construction in the settlements or in Jerusalem… He said there is no agreement to freeze construction in the settlements. I am telling you this first-hand.
Peled added that Netanyahu had said in his meetings in Europe that "Jews should be able to live wherever they want".