FM won’t join meeting of EU counterparts: ‘No room for balance, theoretical talk’

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen turns down an invitation from EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell to join a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels this evening.

“While we are burying our dead and are fighting criminal terrorism, when the world stands in clear support of Israel, there is no room for balance and theoretical discussions, only a decisive and uncompromising war against Palestinian terrorism,” says a source in Cohen’s office, signaling Jerusalem is focused on fighting the war and not in diplomatic initiatives.

Cohen will continue speaking by phone to European foreign ministers, says the source.

He is set to speak with the foreign ministers of Nepal and Thailand this evening. Both countries saw a significant number of citizens killed and kidnapped by Hamas.