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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I first want to congratulate the EU for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Would that we could replicate in the Middle East what was achieved in Europe. That is, decades of stability and peace and tranquillity. That is our goal and we’ll discuss how we can advance that goal, that all Israelis share fervently.”

(Source: Israeli Prime Minister’s Office)

Prime Minister David Cameron: ‘If the Palestinian plan is simply posturing with the UN rather than negotiating with Israel, Britain will never support it.’

Source: Jerusalem Post

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle“Iran has not moved on any of the important questions over the past few months. Therefore, we must increase the sanctions pressure.”

Source: the Daily Telegraph

Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Chuka Umunna: “The Israeli high-tech sector is a world leader. I am very much looking forward to talking to leading businesses in the sector, seeing what they are doing at first hand…I’m keen to see how this can be used in the development of our thinking on industrial strategy and support for our high-tech sector in the UK.”

Foreign Secretary William Hague: “It remains a deeply depressing and frustrating crisis [in Syria]. It is deteriorating and on current trends it will continue to deteriorate, leading to an even greater humanitarian crisis … We continue our efforts to make diplomatic progress, including with Russia – I will meet the Russian foreign minister again this weekend, but there is no sign of any breakthrough. In the absence of that we will be one of the leading countries delivering humanitarian aid, supporting the opposition in non lethal ways and helping with other countries to prepare for the eventual day after Assad when the Syrians will need our help all the more.”

Source: the Independent

“At this time, in light of the two great upheavals around us, the security and the economic, my obligation as Prime Minister is to put the national interest above everything and therefore, I have decided that the good of the State of Israel requires going to elections now, as soon as possible.
The State of Israel would prefer a short election campaign of three months over what, in effect, would be a long election campaign that would continue for an entire year and would severely damage the Israeli economy. And therefore, after four years, we will go to elections.”
Source: Prime Minister’s Office