https://www.scmp.com/rss/517158/feed Amir Lati is consul general of Israel in Hong Kong from September 2021. A career diplomat since joining Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999. Half of his career is China and Asia related, with postings in Shanghai, Chengdu being the first consul general there and Director of North East Asia Department before arriving to Hong Kong. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Over the past few weeks, I have been speaking with different groups and sharing Israel’s perspective of the current situation in Israel and Gaza. Finding a historical starting point always makes me think. Do you start with the undeniable bond of more than 5,000 years between the Jewish people and the land of Israel? Or in modern times, with the refusal of the Arabs to accept UN resolution 181 in 1947 for the partition plan of the British Mandate for Palestine-Eretz Israel which led to the Arab... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3248975/genocide-israel-fighting-just-war-against-terrorist-organisation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3248975/genocide-israel-fighting-just-war-against-terrorist-organisation?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:30:12 +0000 History is back-to-front for those who seek to justify Hamas’ terrorism. The restrictions on Gaza did not give rise to the violence; it was violence that made the restrictions necessary in the first place. Some might seek to justify Hamas’ brutality as a response to the lack of progress in negotiating a political solution between Israel and the Palestinians. However, the 1988 Hamas charter calls for the total annihilation of the state of Israel and instead establishing a fundamentalist Islamic... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3241744/israel-gaza-war-dont-rewrite-past-and-ignore-hamas-brutality?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3241744/israel-gaza-war-dont-rewrite-past-and-ignore-hamas-brutality?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:30:16 +0000