As tensions in the Middle East soar unabated, thousands of kilometers to the east the Israeli and Palestinian envoys to Japan were at loggerheads in back-to-back news conferences in Tokyo.
In the morning, Israeli ambassador to Tokyo Gilad Cohen vehemently condemned Hamas＊ attack nearly a week ago and strongly reiterated his country＊s intention to engage in a full-fledged war to eradicate the militant group.
※This is for us our 9/11. But I want to make one thing clear, we are going to win this war,§ Cohen told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents＊ Club of Japan, calling Hamas＊ action ※crimes against humanity§ and a kind of brutality that ※the modern world has never seen.§
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