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53. The Israeli foreign minister has been criticised by one of the EU's most senior diplomats ...

Mon Jan 22, 2024, 02:23 PM

Jan 2024

Lisa O'Carroll

The Israeli foreign minister has been criticised by one of the EU’s most senior diplomats for not engaging fully with a summit of foreign ministers in Brussels designed to pave the way for a peace plan in the Middle East.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative, told reporters that Israel Katz had come to the meeting and presented two videos to the bloc’s foreign ministers.

One was for an artificial island off the coast of Gaza and another on a railway linking the Middle East to India.

Borrell said: This didn’t have much to do with what we were discussing.

He added: I think the minister could have made better use of his time to worry about the security of his country and the high number of deaths in the Middle East and the high death toll in Gaza.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jan/22/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-gaza-hostages-families-protest-release-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-hamas-war-eu-palestine-talks

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Israel's foreign minister suggests Palestinians could be housed on artificial island in the Mediterranean - sources [View all] Donkees Jan 2024 OP

Will this artificial island be funded by U.S. taxpayers? dalton99a Jan 2024 #1

Probably depends on who gets the revenue from the offsure gas drilling various parties want to do off Gaza Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #27

Netanyahu's cabinet really should shut up, yardwork Jan 2024 #2

No, they're just telling the world what they want to do to Palestinians. The world needs to know. Lonestarblue Jan 2024 #5

That's overly dramatic. The majority of Israelis don't support Netanyahu. yardwork Jan 2024 #12

Do you object to what they're saying as well as that they're saying it in public? David__77 Jan 2024 #18

What are you suggesting? yardwork Jan 2024 #19

Nothing. David__77 Jan 2024 #21

Maybe you should self-delete, in that case. yardwork Jan 2024 #23

The objection is that they are NOT spokes people for government policy, and because of their JohnSJ Jan 2024 #24

I think it is reasonable to place weight on the public statements of a country's foreign minister.I'm David__77 Jan 2024 #25

Of course you do. JohnSJ Jan 2024 #29

If the foreign minister, speaking to ministers of other countries, is not expressing Israeli foreign policy, muriel_volestrangler Jan 2024 #34

He is expressing a personal opinion. I am actually tired of this ceaspool anyway, and since JohnSJ Jan 2024 #40

The minister also referred to a prior government plan... ExciteBike66 Jan 2024 #41

That prior plan was from 2011. sheshe2 Jan 2024 #62

+1 Celerity Jan 2024 #61

The poster appears to be suggesting that I agree with the cabinet minister. yardwork Jan 2024 #26

If so, that would be a personal attack against you, and that poster should apologize and remove JohnSJ Jan 2024 #28

Hmmm, I didn't get that from the 'poster' comments Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #30

They've edited the post twice now. yardwork Jan 2024 #31

Didn't they use to show edits people make? JohnSJ Jan 2024 #42

Hit "powers" and scroll down. You can see each edit. yardwork Jan 2024 #44

Thanks JohnSJ Jan 2024 #45

Wonder how claudette Jan 2024 #3

Of course not malaise Jan 2024 #7

I'm beginning claudette Jan 2024 #32

Since this is an artificial island, does it have any fresh water? Lonestarblue Jan 2024 #4

Have to wonder where Trump got the blood cleansing idea from? LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #9

Are you seriously suggesting that the Jews gave Hitler the idea for their own genocide? yardwork Jan 2024 #22

Wow, now THAT's a reach Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #33

No, the poster made the connection. yardwork Jan 2024 #35

Interpret it? Is that the same as trying to insinuate the poster is bad because doesn't agree with another poster? Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #37

The poster's exact words are: Have to wonder where Trump got the blood cleansing idea from? yardwork Jan 2024 #46

::sigh:: Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #48

Then say what you think it means. yardwork Jan 2024 #49

Post removed Post removed Jan 2024 #51

"Conclusions that are not in evidence"? What does that even mean? lapucelle Jan 2024 #64

I am getting so tired of these not so hidden innuendos. Reminds me of some of the actors, JohnSJ Jan 2024 #39

I used to lurk here years ago, when DU was young Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #50

Keep digging . . . no_hypocrisy Jan 2024 #6

That's insane. Srkdqltr Jan 2024 #8

Or perhaps Devil's Island, or Alcatraz. Mister Ed Jan 2024 #10

2011??? Oneironaut Jan 2024 #11

Whoa! I didn't even seen that. 2011?! yardwork Jan 2024 #13

Paragraph 3: ''He told them the video referred to a plan made some years ago when he was a transport minister.'' Donkees Jan 2024 #14

Is that about the time oil/gas field offshore from Gaza was confirmed? Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #38

It was discovered in 2000 Donkees Jan 2024 #43

Ah, thank you for the memory refresh Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #47

Two million people living on an artificial island?? Disaffected Jan 2024 #15

The Palestinian FM, Riyad al-Maliki, has dismissed his Israeli counterpart's island suggestion Donkees Jan 2024 #16

''Ministers ignored it and went ahead with what they were there to talk about.'' Donkees Jan 2024 #17

Hope they set him straight though. AloeVera Jan 2024 #54

They (speakers of such things) cannot help themselves so it seems... David__77 Jan 2024 #20

You would think that descendants of the Holocaust would know better. Sneederbunk Jan 2024 #36

No one, least of all Israel, is interested in housing Palestinians, anywhere. Runningdawg Jan 2024 #52

The Israeli foreign minister has been criticised by one of the EU's most senior diplomats ... Donkees Jan 2024 #53

What? On a RAILWAY?? AloeVera Jan 2024 #56

He presented 2 videos. The second video was for a railway to India Donkees Jan 2024 #57

Good God. AloeVera Jan 2024 #60

Israel's foreign ministry has denied that its foreign minister suggested that Palestinians could be housed on an island Donkees Jan 2024 #55

So... AloeVera Jan 2024 #58

There might be upcoming videos of this EU meeting with more details ... Donkees Jan 2024 #59

So the original island plan was as a military and police checkpoint NickB79 Jan 2024 #65

Given Palestinian birth rates pfitz59 Jan 2024 #63

They'll just try anything EndlessWire Jan 2024 #66