Future Israeli prime minister defended opposition to Palestinian statehood and downplayed settlements and occupations
Then Taoiseach John Bruton introduces his wife, Finola, to Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, on their arrival at Dublin Airport in 1996. Photograph: Eric LukeAt the time Netanyahu was the deputy foreign minister in the Likud government and an unknown in international circles. Ireland held the presidency of the European Community during the first half of 1990.
State Papers: Eight things we learned, from details of Boris Yeltsin’s Shannon no-show to JFK’s ‘happiest’ daysGovernment wrestled with Mary Robinson’s plan to make historic first visit to Queen Elizabeth IITaoiseach Simon Harris indicated last month that Netanyahu would be arrested if he set foot in Ireland today following the issue of an
Netanyahu told Collins that 95 per cent of the Israeli people were against Palestinian aspirations for an independent state because Israel was effectively at war with the Arab world. Collins, in turn, cited a statement by the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in the Knesset in the previous week in which he stated that he would strengthen Jewish settlements through “Judaea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan”. Judaea and Samaria are the names Israelis use for the West Bank, while the Golan is a stretch of plateau occupied from Syria in 1967 but under de facto Israel control. The report of the meeting stated that when Shamir’s statement was put to Netanyahu, “he made no reply”.
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