Israel’s Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi met Sunday his Brazilian counterpart in Jerusalem and thanked his country for its “steadfast position against the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to launch a [war crimes] probe” against the Jewish state.
“It is a decision that harms international law and distances the possibility to advance negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians,” Ashkenazi stressed at the meeting.
(29.12.2020)
The Blue and White party’s No. 2, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, is set to announce in the coming days that he is leaving the party and will likely take a break from politics, Hebrew media reports said Tuesday.
Ashkenazi will declare that he is not running in the coming March elections by Wednesday, according to Channel 12 news and Haaretz.
(14.10.2020)
Berlin’s foreign minister reportedly tells Gabi Ashkenazi that Israel will get AstraZeneca COVID-19 inoculation when it is sold to European countries
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said it was a ‚great honor‘ to host the high-level summit
Netanyahu‘s main coalition partners, Defense Minister Benny and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, were shunned from the trip
Kushner, O’Brien, US Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz and US Iran envoy Brian Hook, together with an Israeli delegation led by National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, are set to take the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the UAE on Monday, on an El Al plane bearing the word “peace” in Arabic, Hebrew and English in honor of the historic moment.
(25.08.2020)
We discussed the significance of normalisation of
(Flag of United Arab Emirates) – (Flag of Israel) relations, and efforts towards greater peace in the Middle East
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab is also expected to visit Israel this week, on Tuesday, and meet with his Israeli counterpart Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.
(17.08.2020)
The prime minister did not reveal the deal to Gantz or Ashkenazi, even though they are both former IDF chiefs of staff, because he was afraid they would leak the secret negotiations, Netanyahu said in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper published on Monday.
„I have been working on this for years, and they have been here for just a couple of months,“ Netanyahu said.
According to the report, Netanyahu was surprised to learn that Alternate Prime Minister Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi have many reservations over the annexation plan.
(04.11.2012)
Mr. Ashkenazi and Meir Dagan, who was the head of the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, at the time, would later say that this was an attempt at “stealing a war,” Ms. Dayan reported, because in their view such an order required a decision of the full cabinet, not the smaller group in the meeting, who were then known as the forum of seven.
Both Mr. Ashkenazi, who is now retired, and Mr. Dagan, who stepped down after the meeting, have become vocal critics of plans for a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran, and of Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Barak’s aggressive approach.
Netanyahu‘s recent announcements, like a pledge to annex parts of the West Bank he made three days before the April 9th elections, have barely registered in the campaign of Blue and White, the centrist party co-led by Generals Benny Gantz, Moshe „Bogie“ Ya‘alon, and Gabi Ashkenazi (all former chiefs of the Israeli Defense Forces) along with former finance minister Yair Lapid
Vote left, vote right, just don’t vote nothing. The nothing of Kahol Lavan isn’t merely nothing, it’s an actively destructive nothing. It suffocates any possibility of providing an alternative and eliminates any hope for change.
Tell me, Kahol Lavan, have you lost your minds? Did you get sunstroke? Were you blinded by the neon lights at the office of your political strategist Moshik Teumim? This is your election campaign – war before everything?
Also, back in April, neither Kahol Lavan chairman Benny Gantz nor leading party figure Gabi Ashkenazi bothered to attend the seminar for new MKs, meant to prepare them for working in the Knesset.
Taken together, these reports paint an unflattering picture of an amateurish, disorganized, lazy opposition party. Despite the military background of some of its leaders, formulating a strategy and pursuing it with determination and consistency doesn’t appear to be the party’s modus operandi.
(11. März 2012) Im israelischen Parlament sitzt, wie im deutschen, der Abfall einer Generation. Die Lüge, die Heuchelei, der menschenverachtende Zynismus ist zum Sport einer Gilde von Partei-Funktionären, von ethisch Degenerierten geworden, die fehlende Moral, fehlenden Geist, fehlende Fähigkeiten, fehlendes Talent, fehlende politische Inhalte, fehlende Visionen, fehlende Ideen und hinsichtlich positiver Eigenschaften ein in jeder Hinsicht unterdurchschnittliches Verhalten durch Pokale dieser Sportart zu kompensieren versucht. Diese Gilde von Funktionären, die sich selbst “politische Klasse” nennt und eifersüchtig jeden Neuankömmling in der Politik auf seine Fähigkeiten in Lüge, Heuchelei und Zynismus abschätzt (beständig in der Angst darin übertrumpft zu werden), sieht wie die Gilde der Banker und sonstiger Privilegierter, den Staat als ihr Eigentum an, freigegeben zum Plündern, nur um sie herum gebaut und ihnen selbst wie selbstverständlich zustehend. (…)
Es fehlt eigentlich nur noch der Artikel im “Spiegel”, in dem Gregor Gysi (dessen Leichenfraktion sogar vom Mossad mühelos links überholt wird) von einem “Quasi-Putsch” der israelischen Geheimdienste gegen Netanjahu warnt.
Bleibt zu erwähnen, daß in 2010 Mossad-Chef Dagan, der ebenso ruhmreiche Generalstabschef Gabi Ashkenazi, der ebenso ruhmreiche Chef des Inlandsgeheimdienstes Shin Beth, Yuval Diskin, sowie der ganz besonders ruhmreiche Leiter des Militärgeheimdienstes Aman, Amos Yadlin, sowie zwei weitere hochrangige Vertreter des Exekutiv-Apparates durch die Netanjahu-Regierung innerhalb von nur sechs Monaten aus ihren Ämtern entfernt wurden. Zumindest bei Ashkenazi wurde später klar, daß der Grund für dessen Rauswurf seine Weigerung war, sich an Baraks Plänen eines Angriffskrieges auf Iran zu beteiligen, deren mögliche Umsetzung er als “Desaster” für Israel bezeichnete.