Israel accused arch-enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people.
Israeli embassies and consulates have raised their alert level after several in missions in the United States and Europe received envelopes with white powder in them.
Dozens of people involved in rioting at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo were given suspended jail sentences.
Several hundred Jordanian protesters on Thursday called on their government to close the Israeli embassy in Amman and scrap an unpopular peace treaty with the Jewish state.
Israel evacuated its embassy in Jordan, amid fears that a planned anti-Israel protest could turn violent.
Egypt and Israel said on Sunday they wanted a return to normal diplomatic activities after the Israeli ambassador flew home following the storming of the embassy in Cairo during violent protests.
Turkey said on Friday it will seek to prosecute all Israelis responsible for crimes committed during an Israeli raid on a ship bound for the Gaza Strip that killed nine Turks in May 2010.
Below is a letter sent from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to Ambassador Vassilis Kaskarelis (Greek Embassy in Washington) andAmbassador Anastassis Mitsialis (Greek Permanent Mission to the United Nation):
Newt Gingrich said he would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem on his first day in office. \”Israel has every right as a sovereign, free nation to choose its own capital and we should respect that choice,\” the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives said Sunday in an address to the Republican Jewish Coalition. \”As President, on my first day in office, I would issue an executive order directing the U.S. embassy in Israel to be moved to Jerusalem as provided for in the legislation I introduced in 1995.\”
Four Israeli embassies may be closed after receiving serious threats.
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