U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US-Arab meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh, April 29, 2024. (Credit: AFP)
The timing is questionable, as a cease-fire reached this week in Lebanon has relaunched talks for a truce in Gaza. An Israeli ministerial committee will discuss on Sunday, Dec. 1, a bill aimed at prohibiting states “supporting terrorism” from participating in any negotiations between Israel and a third country. Presented by Moshe Saada, a member of Knesset for Likud – the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the bill would allow the Israeli chief executive to decree that a country is complicit in terrorism if the latter “provides financing, training, means or any other support for terrorist operations carried out in areas under Israeli control, or against Israelis and Jews anywhere in the world,” reports the daily Haaretz. Behind this broad wording, the objective of the bill would be to prevent Qatar from playing a role in future...
The timing is questionable, as a cease-fire reached this week in Lebanon has relaunched talks for a truce in Gaza. An Israeli ministerial committee will discuss on Sunday, Dec. 1, a bill aimed at prohibiting states “supporting terrorism” from participating in any negotiations between Israel and a third country. Presented by Moshe Saada, a member of Knesset for Likud – the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the bill would allow the Israeli chief executive to decree that a country is complicit in terrorism if the latter “provides financing, training, means or any other support for terrorist operations carried out in areas under Israeli control, or against Israelis and Jews anywhere in the world,” reports the daily Haaretz. Behind this broad wording, the objective of the bill would be to prevent Qatar from playing a...