Israel refuses to recognise NZ ambassador over contact with Palestinian officials

[shaayecanaan]

Israel is refusing to accept New Zealand's ambassador because he will also have contact with Palestinian officials.

While Israel insists it is upholding a long-established protocol, diplomats in Wellington say New Zealand's ambassador to Israel has had contact with Palestine since 2008 with no issue being raised.

New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has confirmed that Israeli officials had advised in recent days that they would "not accept as ambassador a person who was also a representative to the Palestinian Authority".


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-refuses-to-recognise-nz-ambassador-over-contact-with-palestinian-officials-20140910-10exrv.html#ixzz3GMTA175t

[Purveyor]

1. I'm certain the NZ's will loose a lot of sleep over this.

NOT!

[King_David]

3. Israel–New Zealand relations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_relations

In 2002, New Zealand sent about $12.5 million of exports to Israel and received $60.1 million in imports, including fertilisers, plastic and soap. By 2005, annual exports from New Zealand to Israel reached NZ$16.834 million. Exports were mostly milk and cream (13.8%), electronic circuit boards (11.1%), preserved meat or offal products (10.9%), casein (10.8%), and medications (7.4%). Exports from Israel to New Zealand, mostly manufactured goods like steam turbines (11.3%), industrial water heaters (5.2%), plastic sheets and films (4.7%), telecommunications equipment (4.7%), and inkjet printers (3.8%), reached NZ$88.15 million. Since 2001, Fonterra, New Zealand's largest dairy company, is involved in a joint venture with the Israeli cooperative Tnuva.

So you right there NZ is a much bigger importer from Israel than Exporter to Israel.

Tiff will not last.

[roody]

2. I have some first graders like that.

[Purveyor]

4. Please don't insult those 1st graders with a comparison to the israeli gov't.

[King_David]

5. .

[azurnoir]

6. almost sounds as if Israel is testing the waters to see if it can limit Palestinian diplomatic

contacts or at the very least make it difficult, probably best to start small on such a venture

[shaayecanaan]

9. you're absolutely right

New Zealand was also where Israel tried to fraudulently obtain a passport by impersonating a disabled man. They're small enough to risk offending, essentially.

Ironically, the current new Zealand pm is Jewish and has been friendlier to Israel than probably any other country apart from Canada. Nz is the sole country participating in Israels working holiday program.

[Israeli]

7. Started a few months back shaayecanaan....

Here is more info for you :

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4569574,00.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4568631,00.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4568650,00.html

[King_David]

10. Thanks for all the inernet clips

You very good at clipping and posting links.

It would also be great to hear what you yourself think on all these topics and not just others.