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(Haaretz) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a planned trip to Washington, where he was scheduled to participate in a nuclear security summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, government officials said.
Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor will take Netanyahu’s place in the nuclear summit.
Obama has invited more than 40 countries to the summit, which will deal with preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist groups.
Netanyahu was due to arrive in Washington on Monday evening and was set to take part in three or four conference sessions the following day, before returning to Israel on Wednesday.
Officials said the PM canceled the trip over fears that a group of Muslim states, led by Egypt and Turkey, would demand that Israel sign up to the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.
Israel and U.S. signed nuclear cooperation agreement under Bush in 2008 (Getty Images)
[Netanyahu just wanted to talk about “terror” and rogue states… the opposing foes of Israel – Oui]
Why does Judith Miller hate Israel? Read on …
For the past 4 months, a radical anti-Zionist activist named Anat Kamm has been under house arrest suspected of serious acts of treason.
To get ahead of the story before it comes out that it [Haaretz] hired an alleged traitor that it allegedly collaborated with, Ha’aretz turned to foreign journalists and claimed that Israel is “disappearing” journalists. The foreign press, and most destructively, Judith Miller swallowed the tale whole. Miller wrote up the story on the Daily Beast and then had this interview with Shepherd Smith — who apparently really doesn’t have much use for Israel or Jewish Americans who support Israel — yesterday on Fox News.
What this story shows is how destructive the Israeli media’s contempt for their own country can be for Israel not only at home, but abroad as well.
(Haaretz) Jan. 14, 2010 – Israel sparked outrage when envoy Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, summoned by Ayalon over an anti-Israeli television show aired in Turkey, was made to sit in a chair lower than that of Ayalon, while the Turkish flag was deliberately not put on display
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Deputy FM Daniel Ayalon humiliates Turkish ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol in Jerusalem
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
