Italy mustn't treat us like Hamas says Israel envoy

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 26 - Italy mustn't treat Israeli like Hamas, Israeli Ambassador to Rome Dror Eydar told a Forum at ANSA Tuesday.
    "Italy is a great friend. the Israeli prefer Italy to all European countries, but Italy's abstention" on the UN resolutions against Israel and in particular the last one on operations in Gaza "was the most painful for us" because "for us abstention means treating Israel and Hamas in a similar way", he said.
    Eydar added that an Israeli court's decision to send back to Italy Eitan Biran, the orphaned six-year-old Israeli boy who was the sole survivor of the Mottarone mountain cable-car disaster in Piedmont in May and was taken out of Italy by his maternal grandfather last month, was "proof of the independence of the legal system in Israel".
    He added: "let's wait for the appeal, but in the meantime I wish him a good life". (ANSA).