Israel's Netanyahu pays tribute to slain journalist Steven Sotloff
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In a speech honouring an Israeli police counter-terrorism unit in central Israel on Thursday (September 4), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to the family of slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff who was also an Israeli citizen.
Netanyahu who faces foreign calls to advance stalled peacemaking with the Palestinians after Israel's seven-week Gaza war against Islamist Hamas, cast Sotloff as an example of liberal Western values shared by the Jewish state.
"I would like to send my condolences to the family of Steven Sotloff. He was murdered in profound cruelty by ISIS murderers. Steven was murdered because he represented, for these murderous terrorists, a symbol of the West - that same culture that radical Islam wants to eradicate," Netahyahu said during a speech in honor of an Israeli police counter-terrorism unit in central Israel.
Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that
In a speech honouring an Israeli police counter-terrorism unit in central Israel on Thursday (September 4), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered condolences to the family of slain U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff who was also an Israeli citizen.
Netanyahu who faces foreign calls to advance stalled peacemaking with the Palestinians after Israel's seven-week Gaza war against Islamist Hamas, cast Sotloff as an example of liberal Western values shared by the Jewish state.
"I would like to send my condolences to the family of Steven Sotloff. He was murdered in profound cruelty by ISIS murderers. Steven was murdered because he represented, for these murderous terrorists, a symbol of the West - that same culture that radical Islam wants to eradicate," Netahyahu said during a speech in honor of an Israeli police counter-terrorism unit in central Israel.
Israel said on Thursday it had prevented local media from reporting that