by Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely promotes initiative that brings together senior legalists who will create special public diplomacy instruments that could withstand legal scrutiny in international forums • Move seeks to counter boycott efforts.
Deputy Foreign Minister
Tzipi Hotovely (center), with former Chief Justices Aharon Barak and
Dorit Beinisch
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Photo credit: Mor Duek  |
Top Israeli jurists came together Tuesday to
formulate a new legal strategy that could bolster the Israeli
government's public diplomacy efforts.
The project, promoted by Deputy Foreign
Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), seeks to provide Israeli diplomats with
solid public diplomacy messages to counter anti-Israeli boycott,
divestment and sanctions efforts worldwide, as well as the Palestinians
attempts to have the International Criminal Court launch a war crimes
investigation against Israel over 2014's Operation Protective Edge in
the Gaza Strip.
Hotovely, Foreign Ministry Director General
Dore Gold, and former Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinisch
teamed with other senior legalists, including former Deputy Attorney
General Mike Blass, Israel Prize recipient in legal studies Professor
Ruth Lapidoth, and the dean of the Hebrew University Law School,
Professor Yuval Shany, to name a few, in an effort to craft talking
points that could stand up to legal scrutiny in international forums
where Israeli diplomats appear.
The two-hour meeting delved into legal issues
pertaining to Judea and Samaria settlements, land and human rights,
rules of war, and the state's right to defend itself.
"We have to update Israel's legal instruments,
and to that end, Israel's senior jurists, the best we have in the field
of international law, have come together to assist the Foreign Ministry
in its struggle," Hotovely said.
"The State of Israel has to form a legal Iron
Dome to fight international delegitimization efforts, the majority of
which focus on two issues, Judea and Samaria settlements and military
ethics," she said.
The forum is scheduled to reconvene in the coming weeks.
Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=27241
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