Europeans urged to break relations with Israel
“We call on the EU to hold Israel accountable for its illegal occupation of Palestine, reconsider its political and trade relations with Israel and agreements, including the EU-Israel Association agreement, implement a ban on Israeli settler products and extremist settlers, and rescue the chances for peace and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital,” Ashrawi said.
Specifically, she condemned Israel for "settlement activities and the rise of settler violence," as well as "the blatant attack on Palestinian security forces, the raiding and plundering of the offices of Palestinian NGOs and civil society organizations, and the increase in home demolitions.”
Israeli soldiers raided the offices of three civil society organizations on Tuesday in the heart of Ramallah, wrenching open the doors of the Women's Union, the Palestinian NGO Network and Addameer, an advocate for Palestinians in Israeli jails, confiscating five computers from the latter group.
In Monday's statement, European Union foreign ministers said that all of the body’s agreements with Israel only applied to the pre-1967 lines.
A diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post that he feared some of the language in the council statement was placed there to lay the groundwork for labelling and possibly banning settlement products in the future.If there's been an 'increase in home demolitions,' I've seen nothing about it so I question that one. And while I have no knowledge about those NGO's, 'an advocate for 'Palestinians' in Israeli jails' is an advocate for terrorists.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman hit back at the Europeans.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman raised eyebrows in a Tuesday interview with Israel Radio when he compared European diplomacy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Holocaust, "I'm not pleased with Europe's position that again, again in history, ignores calls to annihilate the nation of Israel."
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"We already went through this Europe at the end of the 30s, in the 40s. They are sacrificing all their values in favor of their interests. Even then, in the 40s they knew what was going on with the concentration camps, to the Jews, and they didn't exactly act," Liberman said.Very undiplomatic, but very true. And 'didn't exactly act' is an understatement. Most of Europe collaborated with the Nazis.
Labels: Avigdor Lieberman, European Union, Hanan Ashrawi, Holocaust
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:46 PM
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Have the Euros been faced with the vocabulary of land ownership? Title? Treaty? Developers, tenants, and homeowners, rather than "Settlers" and "Settlements"? I honestly think Israel should eliminate "settle" from the vocabulary. There was a guy talking on Aaron Klein's radio show on Sunday about the Israeli govt allowing huge apartment buildings to be built by/for Palestinians on land owned by other people (Israel/Jews). So huge Squatter Apartment Buildings. We need to refer to E1 as a master planned development on Israeli owned land... not a "Settlement". Give it a nice name - Skyblue Estates, or something. Even some of the Progressive Rabbis in the U.S. gave sermons for a while about re-assessing the concept that Jews developing the land they own cannot be termed "settlements". And, as we know, the remnants of Western Civilization quake at the prospect of being a participant (or enforcer!) for establishing a Judenrein country accomplished by stripping off Jewish-owned property. Most people aren't up for that.
I wonder what she would do if the EU would hold the PA accountable for everything they have done since Oslo had been signed? Then again the EU would have to become a lot more Conservative for them to do that.
Findalis,
I don't think they'd have to become more Conservative, just more honest. Far less chance of that.
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