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EU to call on Israel to extend settlement halt
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Published: 15.09.10, 21:21
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1. EU?
Ehud   (09.15.10)
Everytime the EU becomes frustrated about being irrelevant to Middle East peace talks they think criticizing Israel may help. Well, it won't. They can pay protection money to the Palestinians, they"ll still remain irrelevant. Are they not busy these days in Europe kicking gypsies around?
2. I was WONDERING...
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (09.15.10)
Is it "illegal" to shoot rockets and mortar shells at civilian targets into Southern Israel? Last time I looked they were "War Crimes". But as I stated at the beginning of the peace talks, the world would care MORE about Israel building a house, than Palestinians murdering Jewish civilians. BTW the settlements are NOT Illegal under International Law. The Jewish people have always lived in the West Bank except from 1948-1967 when Jordan threw out all the Jewish people. Other legal authorities have contradicted this view of it being illegal, for instance: "Stephen Schwebel, formerly President of the International Court of Justice, notes that a country acting in self-defense may seize and occupy territory when necessary to protect itself. Schwebel also observes that a state may require, as a condition for its withdrawal, security measures designed to ensure its citizens are not menaced again from that territory." OR "Eugene Rostow, a former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, Resolution 242 gives Israel a legal right to be in the West Bank. The resolution. Rostow noted, "allows Israel to administer the territories" it won in 1967 "until 'a just and lasting peace in the Middle East' is achieved," Rostow wrote."
3. same old EU....
Marcelo ,   Berlin / DE   (09.15.10)
for the EU the rocketing from gaza it is OK, only Israel is wrong and should show constraint when rockets, mortars and phosphorous fall down in civilean towns....I really do not understand how long Israel should stand hamas and put her population at risk? is the EU any worth??!?!?!?? Any inch of Israel won't stop rockets from falling....so, what is the point!??!
4. US/EU Seek Israel's Destruction. Don't let them Destroy!
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (09.15.10)
In 1980, PLO Terrorist Leader Arafat explained the peace process: "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel . We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations." Egypt created the PLO. The PLO Charter calls for the destruction of Israel. On the same day Oslo "Peace" Accords were signed in 1993, PLO leader, Arafat stated: "Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel." The Arab League's Charter states its goal is to eradicate the Zionist entity. US/EU/UN ruthless ideology that demands the vicious religious cleansing of Jewish innocents for not being Muslim MUST stop! The 1976 International Convention for Civil and Political Rights, prohibits all forms of discrimination against people on the basis of religion and nationality.
5. Shame on EU
JUDAH THE LION   (09.15.10)
During the British mandate,the British will not allow the Jews to blow the Shofar on YOM KIPPUR after NAHILA by the WALLING WALL not to Offend Muslims,but it is OK for the British and the EU to offend JEWS. May OUR G D our FATHER in HEAVEN JUDGE THEM SOON.
6. EU urges Israel to commit suicide
Frank ,   Oakland, USA   (09.16.10)
Why would Jews listen to anything that the antisemites of Europe "urge"? (And when did Jerusalem and Jewish communities in Israel become "settlements"? Isn't it time to prevent growth of any arab "settlements" in Israel?)
7. Let EU muslumize EU, keep Israel JEWISH!
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (09.16.10)
8. Settlement freeze
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (09.16.10)
If the EU is so concerned about the con tinuing settlement freeze what will it give Israel in return for the settlement freeze morartorium as Israel will be the big loser in this deal?
9. Unelected Bureaucrats Make Noises again and again
chris ,   wales   (09.16.10)
the EU is an Illegal institution that has stripped away the right of the independent states,and they have the cheek of these Dictats in Brussles knows no Bound. All the European nations are being dragged into a Super state of Europe and the masses of the population within those Idependent nations are against giving these Unelected Bureaucrats more power. This is similar to the old SOVIET UNION..We spent decades fighting the Soviet Union and now the Western European leaders are Creating yet another Monster within Europe. this Super state want to also dictate To Israel what she can do and not do.POWER has gone to their heads,Such power as they have Corrupts and they end up trying to Dictate to others what is right in their own Eyes. Europe is also similar to the ANCIENT Romean Power,most people are unaware of what taking place in Europe.Just lke Ancient Rome was against Israel and the True Church,we see the same happening now within the EU. Israel should recognize or declare the EU And Enemy Entity and a Power that has overreached itself and Start telling the Unelected Bureaucrats To Mind their own Business. As a Brit,I'm fed up wit the European Court overruling our own Court as though Their Courts are Superior to Ours. Even our own Judges are starting to voice their Displeasure over the EU Interfering with our own Courts decisions.. Israel should never Forget that it was in EUROPE That 6 Million Jews where Mudered and that Europe is now Pandering to Israel's enemies and will always side with the Arab muslim World because We have allowed to many Muslims Immigrant into the west,and now they are making More and more demands and the EU have to keep them happy and quiet.
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