Overview
- Speaking at a Security Council session under UK presidency, Gideon Sa’ar defended Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria and rejected claims it violates international law.
- Sa’ar invoked the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, contrasting them as thousands of kilometers from the UK with territories he described as the Jewish ancestral homeland.
- He pressed historical arguments by referencing the Balfour Declaration, Winston Churchill’s 1921 visit, and the 1922 League of Nations mandate for a Jewish national home.
- UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper criticized Israeli policy, urging stronger Palestinian policing, an international stabilization force, and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
- Argentina’s foreign ministry valued Sa’ar’s reference to a sovereignty dispute and restated that resolution should come through negotiations, noting his earlier distancing from Navitas Petroleum’s South Atlantic activities.