{"id":4886,"date":"2006-08-18T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:12:49","slug":"epalestine-costa-rica-to-move-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/08\/epalestine-costa-rica-to-move-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica to move Israel embassy out of Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Israel is now learning that actions, especially reckless adventurism, have ramifications.  33 days in Lebanon seem thus far as being a serious turning point in how the world views Israel. How far is yet to be seen, but this move by Costa Rica is a serious one that should be applauded.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Send Costa Rica’s mission at the UN a letter of thanks:<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Permanent Representative of Costa Rica  to the United Nations<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

211 East 43rd Street<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Room 903<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

New York, NY 10017<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Teléfono: 1-212-986-6373\/ 74<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Fax: 1-212-986-6842<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

e-mail: costarica@un.int<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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and while we’re at it, let’s send a message to tell El Salvador "It’s time to rectify an historic error," <\/strong>as the Costa Rican President so rightly said.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

46 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Telephone: (212) 679-1616\/1617<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Telefax: (212) 725-3467<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Tide is moving; slowly, but surely, justice will prevail,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Costa Rica to move Israel embassy out of Jerusalem  <\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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16 Aug 2006 22:56:36 GMT  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Source: Reuters  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Costa Rica will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, its new president said on Wednesday, in a move that pleases Arab nations and is a blow to the Israeli government.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The decision will leave El Salvador as the only country in the world with an embassy in Jerusalem.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a former Nobel Peace Prize winner, said he made the decision to win more friends in the Middle East and comply with United Nations’ resolutions.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"It’s time to rectify an historic error that hurts us internationally and deprives us of almost any form of friendship with the Arab world, and more broadly with Islamic civilization, to which a sixth of humanity belongs," Arias said at an event marking his first 100 days in office.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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He said Shimon Peres, Israel’s deputy prime minister, had called him on Tuesday to ask him to reconsider the decision.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Israel regards East Jerusalem as part of its "undivided and eternal capital." It captured the eastern part of Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The 200,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem are caught between Israel and an emerging Palestinian state which wants the eastern part of Jerusalem as its future capital.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Former Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge moved the embassy to Jerusalem in 1982 as a show of support for Israel.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Arias said the relocation to Tel Aviv should not, however, be interpreted as as a slight to Israel, which has had historically close ties to Costa Rica.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"As far as Costa Rica is concerned, the right to exist and live free of threat, particularly the criminal threat of terrorism, is beyond all doubt," said Arias, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars in neighboring Central American nations.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends, Israel is now learning that actions, especially reckless adventurism, have ramifications.  33 days in Lebanon seem thus far as being a serious turning point in how the world views Israel. How far is yet to be seen, but this move by Costa Rica is a serious one that should be applauded. Send Costa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour was instrumental in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}