CRIF expressed its confidence in the new Prime Minister and his government to ensure Israel’s security and to resume the peace process with the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours.
Richard Prasquier said he was convinced that, given the excellent personal relations between the Prime Minister of Israel and the President of the French Republic, one should expect bilateral relations between Paris and Jerusalem to intensify, without however being blind to differences of appreciation.
CRIF’s Executive Board is planning to undertake a fact finding mission in Israel to meet the new government and the opposition.
Benjamin Netanyahu had come to meet CRIF on 18th December 2008. During that meeting with CRIF’s leadership, the future Prime Minister had said that two great politicians had recently emerged, two new leaders whose prestige was enormous. These were Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Barack Obama in the United States of America. Their international credit was immense and they were both opposed to the nuclear militarization of Iran.
Benjamin Netanyahu had on that occasion highlighted the four points that would be structuring his policies if elected: how to deal with the global economic tsunami; refusing a nuclearized Iran; putting an end to Hamas’ rocket fire from Gaza; and a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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