Interesting development!!!!!
3 weeks ago, Somalia abstained from voting to condemn Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights. The plot thickens because this allegedly pissed off Congresswoman Ilhan Omar who called the Somali Foreign minister and complained about Somalia's ambassador to Geneva who abstained from voting against Israel. The ambassador was recalled and she is still in Mogadishu.
Envoy recalled, official fired as Somalia uniquely abstains on anti-Israel vote.
Almost unnoticed, Arab League state made history in Geneva 10 days ago by choosing not to vote against Israel at major global forum. No explanation was given; now heads are rolling.
On March 22, Somalia abstained on a UN Human Rights Council vote condemning Israel.
Though it passed mostly unnoticed, the Muslim nation’s abstention on a resolution about Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights made history: It is believed to have been the first time a member state of the Arab League missed an opportunity to condemn the Jewish state in a major international forum.
Somalia’s unprecedented abstention on draft resolution
A/HRC/40/L.4, entitled “Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan,” was clearly an anomaly, because Mogadishu on the same day voted in favor of three other anti-Israel resolutions, and later reiterated its rejection of Israeli claims over the strategic high plateau.
But the move brought into the open an ongoing debate that has been playing out in the East African country over the question of potential future ties with the Jewish state.
Further highlighting what had been a secret tug of war within the government, a senior Somali diplomat who has publicly called for warming relations with Jerusalem was fired on Sunday. Unfazed, this official, Abdullahi Dool, told The Times of Israel on Monday that he still strongly favors Somalia-Israel ties.
Somalia, which has been a member of the Arab League since 1974, has never had formal relations with Israel.
Changed stance
Despite sporadic reports about a possible rapprochement, including a
secret meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-president Hassan Sheik Mohamud in 2016, Somalia routinely votes against the State of Israel, regardless of the matter at hand.
Hence the surprise that Somalia’s envoy to Geneva suddenly changed the country’s traditional voting pattern on March 22 — especially on a vote condemning Israeli actions on the Golan, held the day after US President Donald Trump
declared his intention to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the territory.
On March 26 — four days after its shock abstention, and the day after Trump
formalized that Golan recognition — the Somali government issued a statement reiterating its “firm position that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory illegally occupied by Israel.”
Ilhan Omar’s ‘intervention’
Somalia’s Foreign Ministry also
summoned home its ambassador to Switzerland, Faduma Abdullahi Mohamud.
Somalia's
ambassador to Switzerland, Faduma Abdullahi Mohamud
The Israellycool blog
cited an “anonymous foreign government source” as saying that Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse Awad recalled his ambassador “only after receiving a call from [US] congresswoman Ilhan Omar.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/envoy...omalia-uniquely-abstains-on-anti-israel-vote/
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