Israel President Isaac Herzog rebuked Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof for allegedly misrepresenting their phone conversation and for failing to mention Israeli hostages in a subsequent communiqué about the call.
Herzog’s role as Israel’s president is a ceremonial one, but as a left-wing counterweight to a right-wing government, he is a unifying figure in Israel, and often conducts diplomacy on behalf of the Jewish state.
Schoof had called Herzog to discuss a proposed European Union (EU) boycott of Israeli participation in a research program, and to threaten additional boycotts, in protest against Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza.
He declare…
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