UK foreign minister to warn of Iran threat on visit to Israel. James Cleverly, the foreign minister of the United Kingdom, will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories this week. While there, he will push for the revival of negotiations for a two-state solution and pledge to combat Iranian threats to regional security.
Cleverly will meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the tour that starts on Monday.
Tuesday’s lecture by Cleverly at an international security conference will cover the significance of a two-state solution and the security issues that Israel and the Palestinian territories are now confronting.
According to a statement, he would charge Iran with “enabling terrorism” through aiding the terrorist organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Before his travel, Cleverly said that “the UK and Israel work closely together to keep our people safe.” In response to intolerable threats from the Iranian government, Obama promised “to renew our close security partnership.”
The Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system will be shown, and he will also speak with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen of Israel.
Cleverly will visit the Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank while in the Palestinian Territories to meet Palestinian refugees.
With regular Israeli raids and Palestinian street assaults over the last year, West Bank violence has worsened.
Nearly ten years after they failed, few are resuming the U.S.-mediated peace negotiations that sought to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
The West Bank remains under the limited self-rule of the Palestinians, who are still divided between an administration supported by the West and militant Islamists from Hamas who oppose peace with Israel. The present Israeli administration is opposed to a Palestinian state by many.
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