Jerusalem – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández declared Wednesday while on a visit to Israel that relations between his Central American country and the Jewish state had never been closer.
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“As long as I am president, Honduras will stand behind Israel,” Hernández said in a speech before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) and the World Jewish Congress, under whose auspices the council operates, at the King David Hotel.
Hernández had met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day to discuss ways in which the two countries could assist each other. The Honduran president told guests of the ICFR following that meeting that “after this visit, relations, which have been solid for 65 years, will be even stronger.”
The Honduran leader, who studied in Israel in 1992 in a Mashav program (an Israeli development and cooperation program) was accompanied on his visit this week by a high-level delegation that included Secretary of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Arturo Corrales Álvarez, Secretary of Infrastructure and Public Services Robert Antonio Ordoñez, Secretary of Agricultural Affairs Jacobo Paz Bodden and Secretary of National Defense Samuel Reyes. Hernández explained that the delegation was especially interested in learning from Israel’s experience in the realms of security and irrigation.
ICFR board member Mordechai Arbell, a former Israeli ambassador and an authority on the history of Jews in the Caribbean and Central America, chaired the dinner. He welcomed the president and expressed gratitude to the Honduran consuls in Europe who issued visa to Jews from Europe fleeing Nazi oppression.
Que Bueno! Israel needs as many allies as it can get. Too bad it is not our “president” that is making similar statements.
I’m glad to see this, as I have cousins who live in Honduras.
Gracioso amigo gracias
WOW!!
why don’t Jews vacation in Honduras instead of places where they want all jews dead ????
ie:Europe,Scandanavia,Balkan States,Iceland,Morocco,India,Turkey,etc
How come most gentiles are anti Israel while only a few are pro. The question is on the few, how do they escape to be pro Israel? I know being pro Israel is common sense, but why the difference?