Israel says it is “reducing” ties with those nations who voted for last week’s UN Security Council resolution demanding a halt to their settlement expansion on Palestinian territory. On Tuesday Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that Israel was “temporarily reducing” visits and work with embassies, without elaborating further. Press TV reports: “Until further notice, we’ll limit our contacts with the embassies here in Israel and refrain from visits of Israeli officials to those states, and of visits of officials from those states here,” he told the French news agency AFP. Tel Aviv has has already called back its ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal for consultations, and cancelled “aid programs” with the African state. Nahshon said Israel informed Angola on Tuesday that it would be freezing its “aid program” in Angola. Israeli leaders have responded with especially harsh language and fury to Friday’s Security Council resolution which passed after the United States did not veto it for the first time. There have been reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was calling off a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May at next month’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Netanyahu, who also serves as foreign minister, has urged officials to visit the [...]
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