The “so-called sanctions” that British foreign secretary Ed Miliband announced on Tuesday banning products from Judea and Samaria are “shameful” and “not helpful,” Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters at U.N. headquarters on Tuesday.
“We’re an independent country, a sovereign country,” Danon said at the press briefing in Turtle Bay. “If someone thinks that diplomacy is being played by applying sanctions or trying to bend our arm, we will take action as well.”
The envoy told reporters that he “met with the U.K. ambassador when she came in.”
“Don’t expect to dictate your ideas on us,” he told her. “You know, the British Mandate of Palestine is over.”
AFSI Insight
AFSI condemns the UK’s decision to ban products from Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. It is a shameful and discriminatory act that unfairly targets Israel and undermines its sovereignty. Rather than promoting peace, such economic warfare punishes both Israelis and Palestinians who work together and only emboldens those seeking to delegitimize Israel’s presence in its historic homeland.