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Europe considering recognition of Palestine
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Published: 21.04.11, 22:42
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1. NO PA STATE!!!
GLENN ,   YUCAIPA,USA   (04.21.11)
YHVH/YESHUA BEN DAVID THE JEWISH MASHIACH/MESSIAH WILL NEVER ALLOW A PA STATE ACCORDING TO HIS WORD IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION 11:1-3 THE TWO WITNESSES(RABBIS) WILL APPEAR IN PASSOVER 2012 TO WITNESS AGAINST THE NATIONS,THE UN,QUARTET,AND THE ARAB LEAGUE,FOR 3 1/2 YEARS
2. The Golden Calf will never allow ...
no state   (04.21.11)
3. Reciprocity
Devorah   (04.21.11)
France, England and all the other countries that say they support the establishment of a "palestinian" state are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. Look at what's happening in Marseilles, for instance. Half the city has been trashed by arabs. But they are backing a "palestinian" state because there is a payback for them somewhere down the line. What's in it for them, and who is providing it?
4. pa state
art keyes ,   Elbe, USA   (04.21.11)
As an evangelical christian and believer in the GOD of Abraham Issac and Jacob the world is setting up the senario so it can come against Israel as a whole,(which was predicted). I believe Israel can just tell the world that your not going to divide up GOD's land unless they can prove that there was a kingdom of palestine ,a monetary system and a functioning government that was called palestine. quit trying to appease the world move to a place where you will acknowledge the miracle that has only happened to a people named ISRAEL!!!!!
5. what does Recognition mean?
Eddie ,   london UK   (04.22.11)
Britain recognized Jordan's occupation of the west bank in 1948; They also recognized the Khomeini regime in 1979 Iranian revolution. More recently, Blair recognized Gaddafi's regime.
6. Proud to be European....
Marco ,   Spain   (04.22.11)
7. France and England I thought supported Democracy
Mahdi Mabus   (04.22.11)
Abbas was not elected to power. Hamas was. When Hamas says they don't wish to destroy Israel then there can be a Pal State.
8. Pagan Sarkozy
Brod ,   USA   (04.22.11)
Pagan Sarkozy just destroyed the legitimate Christian government of Ivory Coast to help the Islamist-Jihadist usurpers headed by Alassane. If they think they can do the same thing on Israel, Israel should give the EU Papist AntiSemite Pagans a taste of their own medicine. They must be out of their mind if they think they can buldoze their way to get the Islamist-Jihadists usurp the Land of Israel from the Jewish Nation.
9. Deadlock isn't Israel's fault
Danny   (04.22.11)
It is clearly the Palestinians. Also Israel should make it clear that in the event of the Palestinians making such a declaration, it will annex the main settlement blocks and seal off "Palestine" and cut all aid and trade with it. It should pressure the US to do the same, if necessary offering to forgo the US military aid it gets in return.
10. gutless europe
alexi   (04.22.11)
of course the cowards france, belgium, norway, spain are trying to quiet their own moslems on israel's back. Of course england as the colonial power ha sbeen bitter towards israel because of 47-48.They are telling israel what it can or can't do. For such arrogance they can go to hell just like erdogan and gul. Israel should annex the west bank if they make such a move.
11. My (our?) God gave us America and Israel
Brod ,   usa   (04.22.11)
12. Pals want Quartet to sanction+boycott Israel
Sam ,   Canada   (04.22.11)
The Palestinians can't get what they want from negotiations with Israel so they want the Quartet to do it for them. They want the Quartet to recognize their version of Palestine and then boycott and sanction Israel so that Israel will hand over the territory. If the Quartet doesn't go along then the Palestinians will threaten an intifada and try to draw other Arab states into war against Israel. What's implicit here is that if the Quartet doesn't go along then terror can be turned against it too. That is why the Quartet is so anxious to please and so ready for Israel to concede and take risks.
13. Imposing a state this way
Yossef   (04.22.11)
is the best chance to have a new war. We need negotiations about Jordan Border, Jerusalem status and refugees. If that is not solved we will never be in peace. Few months after declaration of the palestinian state Hamas will take the power the way it took it in Gaza, killing as much as Fatah activists it can, and we'll get a new Hamastan in the core of Israeli land. They will bomb Jerusalem, BGA, Tel-Aviv. All the jihadists from all over the world will come to populate Yuda-Shomron and we will have no choice but to go to war. I tell you my friends, this is really not a good idea ! It is actually the destruction of the PA and a return to the situation which prevailed before 1967.
14. More European hypocrisy
Frank ,   Canada   (04.22.11)
They want to create more war in the name of peace.
15. always historically selling somebody out
Oleg ,   Israel/Canada/Russia   (04.22.11)
France and Britain –always at the helm of scenario “who could we sell just to have quietness “..and as it goes –there wont be any quietness till real culprit –the Muslim hate –is not dealt with and neither there will be the Second Czechoslovakia of 1938 .
16. Are people who eat snails and frogs SMART?
Albert ,   US   (04.22.11)
Their whole standard of what is "good" is SICK and defective.
17. The EU recognizes the Libyan rebels
Paul Freedman ,   Falls Church, USA   (04.22.11)
and a big so what? So far they can't impose their epicene will on a tinpot dictator like Gaddafi. Maybe Britain can disinter the corpse of Pasha Glubb, stick a kafayeh on him and send him into battle at the head of the Al Asqa Brigades. Appeasing losers.
18. Days of Jews submitting to Europeans are over.
Chaim ,   Israel   (04.22.11)
Deep down inside, many Europeans still long to have Jewboys to kick around. Old habits die hard. Especially now that Radical Islam is rapidly taking over Europe and Europeans are scared stiff. However, the days of Jews submitting to Europeans are over. This land is ours now and forever. Europe has problems of it's own to attend to. It has no business trying to boss Israel around. Never again!
19. The Incubator of Peace
Adam Neira ,   Melb, Australia   (04.22.11)
These meetings between various national leaders are worthy. The more high level trust building the better. Just like violence, peace has its own incubator. There must be certain energies present for the correct geometries to prevail. All behaviour is a result of mindset and setting. Good leaders will try and influence both. The divinely mandated form of sovereignty for the Holy Land is a Messianic Kingdom. The potential GDP of the Middle East is vast if this paradigm prevails. At 4% growth rate globally the potential GDP of the world by 2050 will be $186 Trillion, i.e. Four times today's figure. “Watch the world argue, argue with itself. Who’s going to teach them peace and happiness ?” – INXS, Dancing on the Jetty, 1984
20. to#6
Jennie ,   Israel/US   (04.22.11)
Thanks for sharing in your pride...There is really a lot to be proud of , marco... This is the way I see it: 66 years ago, Europe has innihilated 6 million Jews, who were the most loyal,contributing& intigrated part in the social, economical,science and cultural life of every Eropean country they lived in for centuries... And now they have been rewarded by a flood of 12 million Muslims, who taking over and changing every EU country back to the middle ages....Good luck, Marco....
21. france which faces enemy wrong way, brist who always sell ou
alph   (04.22.11)
out now offering advice? huh, biggest bunch of historical losers, lost empire, never had empire and have nothing to offer. only open hand to arabs for money.
22. EU/UK Wicked Betrayal of Jihad-Embattled Little Israel
Linda Rivera ,   New York, USA   (04.22.11)
Everyone knows the goal of the PA/PLO/Hamas/Hizbullah, et al is a Second Holocaust of Jews. Everyone knows that in the Palestinian Authority, streets, summer camps, schools, tournaments, and city squares are dedicated to, and named after savage terrorist killers of Jewish innocents. Everyone knows that rabid hatred and murder of Jews is preached in mosques, media, speeches and public education systems. The satanic "peace" process is the wicked method to achieve a Second Holocaust. A Muslim terror state will reduce little Israel at mid-section to nine miles wide INDEFENSIBLE, Auschwitz borders. Stop the Planned Second Holocaust No Islamic Terror State in Israel
23. #5, it also means UN, 1947
Ben ,   USA   (04.22.11)
"Recognition" also means the UN's decision in late 1947 to partition Palestine to allow for a Jewish state on the land. Weren't Israelis-to-be listening with bated breath to their transistor radios for the vote tally on that decision? Isn't what's good for the goose also good for the gander?
24. In that case,
Jewish Warrior   (04.22.11)
Annex major settlement blocs and demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
25. re: Palestinian state
joel ,   usa   (04.22.11)
where will this state be, ha? there was never any Palestinian state before, and if these europeans are not ignorant, they can recheck with the records in the UN if there was ever? europeans are only giving "pleasures" to the arab oil just as they are interested and bombed Libya so they can get Gadhaffi's oil, greediness! just simply cursed them!
26. on #4, art keyes
joel ,   usa   (04.22.11)
correct brother, it would be the GOD of Abraham against these atheists from europe just as the british empire have "crumbled" into pieces when it started cursing israel!
27. Europe
Steven ,   L.A. USA   (04.22.11)
It's all posturing and everyone knows that without the U.S. it means nothing. There is an election campaign going on folks and no U.S. candidate will ever vote for an anti Israel or pro Palestinian resolution during a presidential election campaign. That's political science 101. Europe is a basket case economically and has its own problems to worry about. Their empty rhetoric regarding Palestine is a pathetic attempt to appear relevant. They aren't.
28. "Relaunch the peace process" maybe tell Abbas to sit down
Shame   (04.22.11)
and talk. The whole "peace process" (not sure why it is called a peace process) since the Oslo Accord is based on negotiations how on earth would recognizing a Palestinian State improve negotiations? Has no one every suggested that for there to be peace the world must explain to the Palestinians that if they continue to act like children they will receive nothing. There is not one thing the Palestinians have ever done for peace. They have done plenty to try to create a state but nothing for peace.
29. Palestinian state is
Jakob ,   Slovenia   (04.22.11)
NOT a viable option. EU is supporting a state-to-be with a clear ethnic/religious cleansing policy. Romantic simpletons with sympathy for the underdog? NO! The exact opposite is true. They may not be aware of it in clear terms and its consequences, but many europeans would do anything to crush enable the next holocaust.
30. EU Recognition of a Palestinian State and the Axis of Evil
Marcus Silverman   (04.22.11)
About time the Europeans took the initiative and recognized a Palestinian state. If it was left to America and Israel then there never would be a Palestinian state, all the land allocated to a Palestinian state in the original partition plan would be illegally occupied by economic migrant settlers from America and E.Europe - who have no claim to the land whatsoever.
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