Greek PM warns Israel risks losing friends

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a cardinal spouse of Israel within the European Union, warned Friday that Israel risked losing remaining friends with its destructive war successful Gaza. Addressing the UN General Assembly, the centre-right Greek person said Israel had a close to self-defence aft the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, but cannot “justify the decease of thousands of children.”

“Greece maintains a strategic concern with Israel, but this does not forestall us from speaking openly and frankly. The continuation of this people of enactment will ultimately harm Israel’s ain interests, starring to an erosion of planetary support,” Mitsotakis said.

“I tell my Israeli friends they hazard alienating each their remaining allies if they persist connected a way that is shattering the imaginable of a two-state solution.”

Greece did not articulation European powers, including France and Britain, which successful caller days recognised a Palestinian state arsenic they voiced exasperation with Israel.

“I tell my Israeli friends they hazard alienating each their remaining allies if they persist connected a way that is shattering the imaginable of a two-state solution.” Prime Minister Mitsotakis

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who successful a fiery UN speech earlier Friday accused Western leaders of fanning antisemitism — flew implicit Greece arsenic helium took a circuitous way to New York successful airy of an apprehension warrant helium faces from the International Criminal Court.

Greece has recovered communal interests with Israel owed to tensions some person with Turkey, which has expanded its power sharply successful Syria since the autumn of person Bashar al-Assad successful December. But Israel besides faces wide nationalist disapproval successful Greece, and Mitsotakis’s left-wing predecessor Alexis Tsipras has urged designation of a Palestinian state.