[rad-green] Coup Government in Bolivia Renews Diplomatic Relations With Israel After Over Decade of Severed Ties

*https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-bolivia-renews-diplomatic-relations-with-israel-after-over-decade-of-severed-ties-1.8196273
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-bolivia-renews-diplomatic-relations-with-israel-after-over-decade-of-severed-ties-1.8196273>Haaretz
         Nov 28, 2019Bolivia Renews Diplomatic Relations With Israel After
Over Decade of Severed TiesEx-Bolivian President Morales decided in 2009 to
cut all ties with Israel after Israel's offensive in Gaza, and recognized
Palestine as an independent state in 2010By Noa Landau *

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[image: Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric speaks during a conference
with the international press in La Paz, November 28, 2019.]
*Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric speaks during a conference with
the international press in La Paz, November 28, 2019.AFP *

Bolivia announced Thursday that it will renew its diplomatic ties with
Israel after a decade in which relations between the two countries were
severed.Speaking to foreign press, Bolivian Foreign Minister Karen Longaric
said: "We are going to restore relations with Israel.

Longaric said that diplomatic ties will resume "out of respect for the
sovereignty of the state, cordiality and that relations could lead to
positive aspects for both sides and contribute to Bolivian tourism."

Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz welcomed Bolivia's decision to restore
relations with Israel, saying it "will contribute to the strengthening of
the country's foreign relations and its standing in the world."

Katz said that the "Foreign Ministry has been working for a long time
directly as well as through mediation of the Brazilin president to promote
the renewal of relations, adding that "I've recently discussed the matter
with the Brazilian foreign minister at the UN General Assembly in New York."

"The resignation of President Morales, who was hostile to Israel, and his
replacement with a friendly administration, has enabled the process to come
to fruition," Katz said. In 2010, President Evo Morales formally recognized
Palestine <https://www.haaretz.com/1.5097512> as an independent and
sovereign state within the 1967 borders.

Earlier that year, Brazil and Argentina recognized Palestine as an
independent state within its borders prior to 1967, in decisions that the
United States and Israel slammed as counterproductive and damaging.In
2009 Morales
broke diplomatic ties with Israel <https://www.haaretz.com/1.5062833> after
Operation Cast Lead, Israel's offensive in Gaza in 2008, and said he would
ask the International Criminal Court to bring genocide charges against top
Israeli officials. He did so to protest the death of multiple Palestinians
in that campaign."

Bolivia had diplomatic relations with Israel. [But] considering these grave
attacks against...humanity, Bolivia will stop having diplomatic relations
with Israel," Morales said at the time in a speech before diplomats in the
government palace.

The chief of diplomacy for Bolivia's transitional government said that the
move was taken at the time as "a measure of political nature without
considerations of consequences, such as the economic and commercial parts."

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