18.04.2012                      26.Nissan. 5772                     Tag 11 des Omer

Diplomatie:

U.S. ambassador to Israel sounds warning on Iran

Daniel B. Shapiro also calls on Egypt to honor its peace treaty with Israel.

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro, Tuesday called on Egypt to honor its peace treaty with Israel and warned that the diplomatic window for Iran was "shrinking".
"Egypt must honor its peace treaty with Israel," Shapiro told a luncheon of the Israel, Britain and the Commonwealth Association in Tel Aviv. "We need to establish the principle that [political] parties cannot go to the polls with a gun in one hand and a ballot in the other." In a wide-ranging, 40-minute address that touched upon U.S. strategic, military and economic cooperation with Israel, Shapiro expressed solidarity with the one million Israelis in the country's central and southern region who were within range of last month's 10-day, 300-rocket barrage from the Gaza Strip….