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"The East Med pipeline does not threaten anyone" was the message sent by the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, during the signing ceremony of the Interstate Agreement for the pipeline. The three heads of state invited anyone who wishes to participate in the project, on the strict condition that they respect International Law and the rules of good neighborliness.
Emphasis was also placed on the benefits of the pipeline, which, in addition to the economic and development side, is expected to contribute to peace and cooperation in the region, as well as to the upgrading of the geopolitical position of the countries cooperating for its construction.
The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as well as the President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiadis, also referred to the support of the European Union, which will participate in the co-financing of the project, but also of the United States, which provides cross-party support for the pipeline, setting the diplomatic parameter of the project .
The signing of the Intergovernmental Agreement on East Med natural gas pipeline between Greece, Cyprus and Israel took place in Zappeion.
The agreement was signed in the presence of the Prime Ministers of Greece and Israel Kyriakou Mitsotakη and Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis, by the Energy Ministers of the three countries Kostis Hatzidakis, Yuval Steinits and Giorgos Lakkotrypis.
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The Central Jewish Council of Greece welcomes the decisions of the American Congress that further strengthen the cooperation between Greece, Cyprus and Israel and at the same time consolidate stability in the Southeast Mediterranean region. The East Med pipeline will not only be a natural resource transport pipeline that will benefit the prosperity of the peoples of the region, but also a bridge of peace between the Middle East and Europe.
At the same time, this decision of the American Congress contributes catalytically to the forging of the historical ties of friendship between the peoples of Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
Athens, December 20 2019
Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece
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Huffington Post, 4.12.2019: There are many who believe that all the problems in the Middle East stem from the non-resolution of the Palestinian issue. That is, if the Palestinian issue is resolved, then the entire region will enter a new period of development and prosperity. Unfortunately, this view is based either on illusions or on ignorance of the conflicting interests in the Middle East and South-Eastern Mediterranean. Israel will continue to fight even after the creation of a Palestinian state.
It would be at least naïve to believe that even if Israelis and Palestinians agreed to a peace plan, the Iran and Turkey they would modify their strategy towards Israel and the goal of expanding their influence in the eastern Mediterranean. Or that, with the resolution of the Palestinian issue, the Syrian crisis will magically end, political order in Lebanon will be restored and Hamas will extend a hand of friendship to the Jewish state.
What is the data in the area?
1. Iran is militarily present in Syria in order to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea and to threaten Israel with critical strikes on its population should Israel decide to strike Iran's own nuclear reactor.
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The daughter of the great writer, leader of the Israeli Left and fanatical supporter of peace and Palestinian rights, came to Athens to speak about her father's legacy in today's Israel. He fears that Netanyahu will abolish the independence of the Judiciary. She is not optimistic about the immediate future, but she does not lose hope for the Palestinian solution.
Explosive, passionate, left-wing activist, with politics in her blood, even though she is a professor of History at the University of Haifa, she looks so much like her father, the leading Israeli Amos Oz, that meeting her at times became unbearably emotional. Especially since we sat down and talked about him one day in Mayan Athens.
Η Fania Oz - Salzburger visited Greece and spoke at the Theocharakis Foundation on "The legacy of Amos Oz in today's Israel". Four months after his death, in December 2018, Fania, the eldest of his three children, and the one who had developed the closest spiritual relationship with him - read the masterpiece book "The Jews and the words" (Kastaniotis publications ), which they wrote together - tours the world, "from Beijing to Brussels", and talks about this great writer and valuable man for peace in the Middle East. We had a lot to say under the sweet gaze of her mom, Millie Oz, who lived with Amos "sixty whole years", who fell in love with him and fell in love with her in their 14-15 years at Kibbutz Hulda. "I took it with me," says Fania, "because Amos had a special relationship with Greece and knew that he had the most fanatical readers here." He is not wrong at all.
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From the hilltop neighborhood of Gilo, one of the first neighborhoods built by the Israelis in East Jerusalem after the 1967 Six-Day War, one can easily make out the imposing church of St. Nicholas, just a few meters away from the Beit refugee camps. Jala and El Aida, which have a city structure. There, together with 25 other journalists from Europe, South and North America, we meet the retired colonel of of the Israeli army, Danny Tirza, who was the Commander of the unit that built the "Fence" that separates Israel from the territories of the Palestinian Authority.
The road to the "Fence"
Colonel Tirtsa, served for thirty years in the army and participated in the negotiations with the Palestinians for the conversion of the refugee camps into houses. Then, after the Oslo Accords, he participated in the technical negotiations at the Camp David summit in the summer of 2000 convened by then-President Bill Clinton for the signing of the final agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Eud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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His article Ronald S. Lauder, President of WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS, which was published in New Y Times on 13 August 2018
For many Israelis, Jews and supporters of Israel, the past year has been a challenging one.
In the summer of 2017, the Government of Israel withdrew from an agreement that would have created an equal prayer area at the Wailing Wall and proposed a strict conversion law, which infringes on the rights of non-Orthodox Jews. This summer the Knesset passed a law denying same-sex couples equal rights. A day later came the Nation-State Law, which rightly reaffirms that Israel is a Jewish State, but damages the sense of equality and "belonging" among its Druze, Christian and Muslim citizens.
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Kathimerini, 9.7.2018, interview with Athanasios Ellis
Diversification is the best way for a newspaper to deal with the changing media landscape as the world moves from print to digital information, believes Aluf Ben, editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. During his recent visit to Kathimerini's offices, we discussed the future of journalism as our newspapers – we both work with the New York Times – face similar challenges. He points out that more and more people are choosing a different way to get informed, moving from print media and televisions to tablets and mobile phones, but at the same time predicts that print information will resist the digital challenge and "survive" on weekends.
He also talks about Benjamin Netanyahu's dominance inside Israel, as well as Greek-Israeli relations, stressing that Erdogan's aggressiveness has brought Greece and Israel even closer.