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DW
19 hours ago
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- DW
Israel-Iran: Germany, France, UK seek diplomatic solution – DW – 06/20/2025
06/20/2025 June 20, 2025 Explosion outside Norway's ambassador residence in Tel Aviv A grenade was thrown into the yard of the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel on Thursday. According to officials, there were no injuries. "There was an explosion outside the Norwegian residence in Tel Aviv Thursday evening," Tuva Bogsnes, Head of Communications at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said. Bogsnes added that no embassy staff were injured in the incident and that the Israeli police were present at the scene. Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar posted on X that he had spoken with Norway's Ambassador to Israel Per Egil Selvaag. Saar added that Selvaag's home had been targeted by a "shrapnel grenade" and strongly condemned the "serious and dangerous crime." It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack or what their motive was. Last year, Norway, along with Spain and Ireland, symbolically recognized a Palestinian State, and criticized Israel for its conduct during the Gaza war.
Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Europe Backs Israel Against Iran Despite Anger Over Gaza
LONDON—European governments, increasingly frustrated with Israel over the Gaza war, are giving Israel more diplomatic leeway in its showdown with Iran—at least for now. Europe has been growing more outspoken against Israel's war in Gaza, with several European countries led by France drawing closer to defying Israel and the U.S. in recognizing a Palestinian state. Even Germany, Israel's most steadfast European ally, has criticized the Gaza campaign.
Arab News
3 days ago
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- Arab News
Israel's offensive on Iran is a threat to everyone says Jordan's King to EU parliament
AMMAN: Israel's expanded offensive on Iran is a threat to everyone, said Jordan's King Abduallah II to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. 'There is no telling where the boundaries of this battleground will end… the attacks on Iran threaten a dangerous escalation in our region and beyond,' he said. 'If our global community fails to act decisively we become complicit in rewriting what it means to be human. If Israeli bulldozers continue to illegally demolish Palestinian homes, olive trees and infrastructure, so too will they flatten the rails that defy moral grounds,' he added. He reiterated the need for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state and the importance of granting Palestinians the right to freedom and statehood. 'Global security won't be assured until the global community acts to end the three-year war in Ukraine and the world's longest and most destructive flashpoint, the eight-decade-long Palestinian Israeli conflict,' said AlHussein. The King cited the failure of international law and intervention in Gaza and said what was considered an atrocity 20 months ago has now become routine. 'Weaponizing famine against children, targeting of health workers, journalists and children have all become normalized after the failure of the international community,' he said. Europe's leadership will be vital in choosing the right course of history, said the King and assured Jordans position in its support to the EU. 'This conflict must end and the solution is rooted in international law. The path to peace has been walked before, and it can be walked again if we have the courage to choose it and the will to walk it together,' he concluded.
New York Times
5 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
France's Acute Palestinian Dilemma
Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new, but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron's apparently imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute. The postponement, as a result of fighting between Israel and Iran, of a United Nations conference this week convened to explore the creation of a Palestinian state has deferred any announcement but appears to have redoubled Mr. Macron's resolve. 'Whatever the circumstances, I have stated my determination to recognize a Palestinian state,' Mr. Macron said on Friday. 'That determination is whole.' 'We must reorganize it as soon as we can,' he said of the conference, which he was to chair with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. French officials close to Mr. Macron say he has told the crown prince of his firm intention to recognize a Palestinian state. Vilified by Israel as leading 'a crusade against the Jewish state,' and spurned in his peacemaking efforts by the United States, which is implacably opposed to the conference and has urged countries to shun it, Mr. Macron is confronted by a diplomatic predicament that will test his renowned adaptability, viewed by some as wobbliness. Mr. Macron — outraged, like much of the world, by the almost 56,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the war, and by its near or total blockade of the strip in recent months — has spoken of 'a moral duty and political requirement' to recognize a Palestinian state. In the absence of Israeli plans for Gaza, and in the face of Israel's bombardment of Iran aimed at destroying its nuclear program, Mr. Macron believes that only a strong political commitment to Palestinian statehood can open the way to a two-state peace, persuade Hamas to lay down its arms and eventually advance regional stability. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
6 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Conference on Palestinian Statehood Postponed Amid Israel-Iran Fighting
A U.N. conference set for next week to explore the creation of a Palestinian state has been postponed because of the fighting between Israel and Iran, President Emmanuel Macron of France says. For Mr. Macron, the meeting's co-chairman alongside Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, the postponement delays a delicate decision on French recognition of a Palestinian state. In a move that infuriated Israel, the French president had indicated that he would formally do so at the conference. Speaking on Friday evening, Mr. Macron said the postponement would be brief with a new date to be set in the coming days. It was needed because leaders in the region, including Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, would be unable to travel because of the fighting. 'For logistical, physical, security and political reasons, they could not get to New York,' Mr. Macron said. But he added that the movement toward a two-state outcome symbolized by the conference was 'unstoppable.' That view is not shared by the United States or Israel, both of which had indicated that they would not attend the conference. The United States, in a cable a few days ago that was first reported by Reuters, urged countries to shun the talks, which it said would 'coerce Israel during a war, thereby supporting its enemies.' France, like a growing number of European states, including many that have previously supported Israel, has taken the view that the most right-wing government in Israel's history is leading the country down a destructive blind alley at devastating cost in Palestinian lives. This conviction has driven France to seek a political framework for the aftermath of the war in Gaza that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has persistently declined to outline. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
