{"id":450833,"date":"2017-12-29T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/akufo-addo-must-resist-israels-dictatorship-jb-danquah\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:04:35","slug":"akufo-addo-must-resist-israels-dictatorship-jb-danquah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/akufo-addo-must-resist-israels-dictatorship-jb-danquah\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo must resist Israel\u2019s &#8216;dictatorship&#8217; \u2013 JB Danquah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 29 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>asempanews.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/68856067.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jb Akufo Addo\" title=\"Jb Akufo Addo\" width=\"295\" height=\"285\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joseph Boakye Danquah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514559875_24_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Joseph Boakye Danquah has accused Israel\u2019s Ambassador to Ghana of undermining Ghana\u2019s sovereignty and assailed as \u201cundemocratic\u201d Israel\u2019s decision to deter Ghana after voting against US President, Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>H.E Ami Mehl shortly after the voting at the Special United Nation\u2019s (UN) General Assembly sitting last week said in a statement, \u201cIsrael regrets the mistaken vote of Ghana against the State of Israel during the Special United Nation\u2019s (UN) General Assembly sitting on Thursday, 21 December 2017, as the Assembly adopted a resolution regarding Israel\u2019s capital Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is hopeful that Ghana will not repeat such mistake in subsequent motions before the General Assembly,\u201d the statement stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was among the 128 countries that endorsed a position that Jerusalem, which is being claimed by Israel and Palestine as capital, can only be said to be Israel\u2019s capital after a peace deal is reached.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with this reporter, the former parliamentary aspirant at the Subin Constituency insisted there was no logic in Israel\u2019s position, as Ghana acted as full-fledged sovereign state with international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>According to JB Danquah, Israel\u2019s decision to use \u201cunorthodox means\u201d to tie the hands of Ghana on the Palestinian peace process defeats its own argument that, as an independent state, it doesn\u2019t require a UN resolution to choose Jerusalem as its capital or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if Israel believes that a sovereign state they don\u2019t require any resolution from the UN or any international body to recognise Jerusalem as its capital or not, then Israel hasn\u2019t gotten any locus in the same vein to tell us what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a clear attempt to dictate to us and that is an affront on our sovereignty as a nation and must be pushed back by government in the strongest terms possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Against that 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