La bozza della posta israeliana omessa. La chiamata di Donohoe era confidenziale

“On 19 February, 2019, Hadie Cohen, a senior Israeli Ministry of Justice official, wrote to ministry colleagues.

Her mail began, in capital letters, “DRAFT EMAIL RE MONEY MESSAGE” – money message referring to a controversial mechanism Irish government can use to halt the progress of legislation it doesn’t have the necessary votes to stop.

Cohen said she understood from a colleague in the Israeli Ministry of Economy that the Irish finance minister, then Paschal Donohoe, had told his Israeli equivalent that government would block the bill.

“We understand from Yossi Akerman that the Irish Minister of Finance has assured his Israeli counterpart that the Irish government will be using a procedure known as ‘money message’ to block the progress of the draft Irish legislation criminalising dealings with products and services from the settlements – the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 (Bill),” she wrote.”