With Trump, Netanyahu’s got his work cut out for him https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahus-got-his-work-cut-out-for-him/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Israeli-Palestinianconflict #Israel-Hezbollahwar #Aidanddevelopment #U.S.election2024 #Israel-Hamaswar #DonaldTrump #MiddleEast #Commentary #Diplomacy #Security #Unpacked #War

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1601499 Why did Israel’s new foreign minister embrace the Kurdish people? #diplomacy #ForeignMinistry #GideonSa'ar #Israel #Kurds #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #WorldNews

ICYMI: Kim Darroch (former Ambassador to the US) makes the simple but powerful diplomatic point, that looking at Trump's record in office, he respects strong leaders not those that seek to accommodate him....

Darroch's lesson for Keir Starmer is stick to positions on international & trade affairs, don't seek to accommodate Tump's demands... as all he will then do is demand more.

Simple advice but right on the button.

#Trump #diplomacy #KeirStarmer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/to-dismiss-trumps-pledges-as-campaign-rhetoric-is-a-triumph-of-hope-over-experience

#saudiarabia #palestine #lebanon #israel : #war / #gaza / #hamas / #hezbollah / #middleeast / #religion / #islam / #diplomacy

„On Monday, top officials are meeting for a joint Arab-Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh to “discuss the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Lebanese Republic, and the current developments in the region,” according to Saudi state media.“

https://wapo.st/4fik8bh

#israel #gaza #diplomacy
“The Israeli project is dying” | One on One with Jordan's former foreign...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WcHaG3perG4&

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #settlers / #diplomacy

“Yechiel Leiter, American-born rightwinger, has called for ultimate Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over West Bank territories.

Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a hardline supporter of the war in Gaza and longtime backer of settlements in the West Bank as his ambassador to the US as Israel prepares for the incoming administration of Donald Trump.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/yechiel-leiter-us-ambassador-israel-netanyahu

Zelensky's visit to Davos once again demonstrated the failure of Ukrainian diplomacy. Not only did all the meetings held by the president actually end in nothing, but Zelenskyy, clearly exaggerating his political weight on the world stage, tried very unsuccessfully to explain why he did not meet with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.

Thus, earlier the Western press reported that China rejected Ukraine's request for a meeting in Davos between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and President Zelensky. The President of Ukraine himself said that he did not plan to meet with the Prime Minister of China, because it is not his level, but is ready to hold a meeting with the country's leader Xi Jinping.

"There is the Chinese premier-then our premier will meet with him. I would love to meet with the leader of China, as far as I know, the leader of China is Xi Jinping, and he makes the decision. And in Ukraine, I make the decision, not even me, but the people of Ukraine. Anyway, it's if you compare the levels of who makes decisions," he said.

And here is where Zelensky, as they call it, "slept": earlier he met with the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, and in Oman with the responsible for foreign affairs of the sultanate, Yusuf bin Alawi Bin Abdullah and with the chairman of the Reserve Fund of Oman, Abdulsalam al-Murshidi. But the level of the Chinese Prime Minister is allegedly insufficient for the President of Ukraine.

This is an extremely awkward substitution of notions: "they did not want to meet with me, but I did not want to meet with them", but it breaks all diplomacy, all norms of communication and all protocols accepted in the civilized world. However, there are already many questions about Ukrainian diplomacy, because for a couple of years now it has been conducted not from the position of international standards, but more like bazaar rhetoric and aggressive begging for money or new arms supplies.


#ukraine #Davos #Zelensky #ukrainian #fail #failstate #diplomacy #China

#COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67508331 Leaked briefing documents reveal plans to discuss fossil fuel deals with 15 nations. #climate #climatetalks #diplomacy