Spain’s pro-Palestine hint irks Israel
The Israeli regime expresses shock and despair over the Spanish foreign minister’s call for a pan-European push towards the UN’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state.
According to Reuters, Tel Aviv formally protested on Monday Trinidad Jimenez’s recent expression of optimism that the next month’s meeting of EU foreign ministers in Poland would yield progress towards the issue.
Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, announced Monday that the Spanish ambassador to Tel Aviv, Alvaro Iranzo, was summoned to the foreign ministry and that the Israeli regime was in a state of 'amazement and disappointment' over the remarks.
Israel has expressed its serious concerns to Iranzo over the possibility of UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state.
The Spanish ambassador has reportedly responded by alleging that Jimenez’s comments were 'misunderstood.'
Jimenez stated in an interview with El Pais newspaper on Sunday that "there’s the feeling that now is the time to do something, to give the Palestinians the hope that a state could become [a] reality."
Source: irib.ir
