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By Yoni Weiss
YERUSHALAYIM -
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi disembarks from his plane in Cairo, Sunday. (Foreign Ministry)
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi flew to Cairo on Sunday for a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Choukri. This will be the first visit by an Israeli foreign minister to Cairo since 2008 and it will focus on Egypt’s efforts to broker a longtime ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip, in the wake of recent hostilities.
According to Arab and Israeli media, Head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate Maj. Gen. Abbas Kamel is expected to visit Israel on Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and senior security officials.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has said that reconstruction in the Gaza Strip will be conditioned on the release by Hamas of two Israeli citizens and the bodies of two IDF soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza war, according to media reports on Sunday. Ashkenazi made the stipulations in a meeting in Cairo with
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On its own, the 3200 rockets hurled by Hamas at Israeli civilians over the past week would be reason enough for revulsion. But when I see posts and statements by organizations â including ones by CIJA â that draw an equivalency between the actions of Hamas and Israel, it is time for fury.
Statements such as âCanadians are heartbroken to see the death and destruction on both sidesâ of course reflect our collective conscience. But issued without context and without clearly and candidly setting out Hamasâ culpability, those words constitute an abandonment of fidelity to what is true and draw an equivalency between a sister democracy and a terrorist organization that is repugnant. There is no equivalency! Equivalency constitutes a discount on Israeli and Jewish blood. And that discount must end.