{"id":1889,"date":"2007-03-20T05:19:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2007-03-20T05:19:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T09:19:58","slug":"oslo-and-rome-welcome-haniyyas-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"Oslo and Rome welcome Haniyya&#8217;s new government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Israel accuses norway of &#8216;giving legitimacy to an unreformed extremist&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Compiled by <em>Daily Star<\/em> staff<br \/>\nTuesday, March 20, 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A year-old diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government splintered Monday when Norway&#8217;s deputy foreign minister met Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya in Gaza and Italy&#8217;s foreign minister called Haniyya in a show of support. The United States and European Union, meanwhile, withheld final judgment Monday on the new Palestinian government after a conference call with the &#8220;Quartet&#8221; of Middle East peacemakers.<\/p>\n<p>As the new government began the formidable task of persuading the world to accept it, Hamas&#8217; military wing took responsibility for a shooting attack that wounded an Israeli civilian near the main cargo crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the attack, Norway&#8217;s deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansen, said he hoped other states would follow his country&#8217;s lead and recognize the new Palestinian coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Norway, which is not a member of the European Union, restored full relations with the Palestinian Authority after the formation of the new government on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that this unity government will work hard in order to fulfill the expectations from the international community,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev accused Norway of &#8220;giving legitimacy and recognition to an unreformed extremist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a joint news conference with Johansen, Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr praised Norway&#8217;s &#8220;daring position&#8221; in being the first European country to fully recognize the new government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=80638\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel accuses norway of &#8216;giving legitimacy to an unreformed extremist&#8217; Compiled by Daily Star staff Tuesday, March 20, 2007 A year-old diplomatic boycott of the Palestinian government splintered Monday when Norway&#8217;s deputy foreign minister met Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}