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“After over four years this case has finally come to its end. Four years ago, the media was riddled with reports of ‘cash envelopes’ and illicit money. Well, today the court found that there was no such thing.” (Source: Ynet News)
UN Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against Iran: “Iran has continued to defy the international community through illegal arms shipments. Two of these cases involved (Syria), as were the majority of cases inspected by the Panel during its previous mandate, underscoring that Syria continues to be the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.”
Source: Reuters
Brig.-Gen. Hertzi Halevy, Commander of the IDF’s 91st Division: “Lebanon will sustain greater damage than that done during the second Lebanon war. The response will need to be sharper, harder, and in some ways very violent. After the Goldstone Report, people in the international community and in Israel thought that battle in a densely populated area could be carried out in a nicer way. It cannot be nice. Without the use of great force, we will find it difficult to achieve our aim, and the enemy should also know that.”
MK Yonathan Plesner (Kadima), chairman of the parliamentary committee legislating more equal military and civilian service in Israel: “No one will be completely satisfied with the report since one cannot rectify decades of injustice immediately. In five-to-ten years however there will be a totally new reality in Israel, one that is correct and proper. We do not intend to trample the rights of any sector, but we are implementing historic change.
The report calls for equal service by all Jewish males, citing the need to act swiftly and legislate the new law by the deadline of the Tal Law for if not, tens of thousands of chareidim will be in a difficult situation come August 1, 2012.”
Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel: “If Iran thinks they will bamboozle us through game playing and negotiations they will be disappointed. We are not naïve, not stupid. Our chief negotiator to the talks was our ambassador to Iran, Sir Geoffrey Adams. We have a great deal of experience, and are not going to be easily fooled.”
Professor Yedidya Stern, member of the committee for equal military and civic service in Israel: “We missed a historic opportunity to ease the tensions surrounding one of the most heated disputes in Israeli society. Netanyahu’s statement that unless the issue is resolved beforehand, a universal draft law would go into effect on August 1 can mean one of two things – either we open up the draft to haredim and Arabs, or these are just empty words. I fear that this summer will be characterized by extreme social tension – and this is what we were trying to avoid.”
Source: Ynetnews