Mooge Posted July 8, 2016 TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the president of Somalia, a Muslim country that does not recognize the State of Israel, a source close to the Somali leader told the Times of Israel. Even though Somalia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel and is a member of the Arab League, some consider President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud a reformer. A website opposed to Mohamud published a report two weeks ago claiming that Mohamud and three other officials from his regime met in private with the Israeli prime minister in Tel Aviv, a fact that was later confirmed by the Somali source to the Times Of Israel. He added that there had been a prior meeting in Jerusalem last December with officials from Israel’s Ministry of Economics and more meetings are planned for the near future. Netanyahu refused to provide a direct answer to the question of whether the meeting took place. “I can merely say that we have a lot of contacts with countries that we don’t have formal relations with. A lot of contacts,” he told the Times of Israel. Mohamud was featured on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013. “The leader of Somalia’s first constitutional government in 20 years, President Mohamud symbolizes an increasingly confident Africa that is shedding its long history of strife and moving toward greater stability and prosperity,” Rwandan President Paul Kagame wrote at the time. On Monday, Netanyahu embarked on a series of diplomatic visits to four African nations – Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda – in a bid to seek out new trade partners and strengthen diplomatic relations between Israel and the continent. http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/07/06/netanyahu-and-somali-president-secretly-meet-in-tel-aviv/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
galbeedi Posted July 9, 2016 Mooge, Netanyahu is a right wing nutcase who did not do much to bring peace in the middle east , but I would not mind sitting down with leaders of Israel. The Somali state should be free to sit or make diplomatic relations. Morocco, Qatar, Egybt, Jordan and Turkey have all relations with Israel. We should not ask anyone permission to make a deal with anyone. The Jewish state is a powerful country that has a lot of influence in the world and we Somalis should talk to them. Of course we must push the two state solutions and peace in the region. The coward Hassan Sheekh should not hide and lie if he sat with Natenyahu. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asad Ahmed Posted July 10, 2016 isreal is a great nation.look what assad is doing to his own people. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Suldaanka Posted July 10, 2016 The Zionist state is far from being great. The 60 or so years that it existed and the Zionists ruled over the holy land of Bait-el-Qudus is a blib when you compare to the 1100 years that Muslims ruled. Yet, in the span of 60 years the Zionists have shown the worse kind of apartheid and ethnic and religious discrimination. The Jews under Muslim rule enjoyed far better freedoms than at anything in their history be it under the Crusaders or Romans or before that The Pharaohs of Egypt. Today we are living at a time of Great Fitna. The Good and Bad are being separated by this great Fitna. It may take 50 years or 500 years, but victory will be on the side of Palestinians. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Holac Posted July 10, 2016 Back in the days, Somalis used to criticize Somaliland for "writing a letter to Isreal". Oh how times have changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
