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Elkin: Israel won't give in to EU pressure
Moran Azulay
Published: 17.07.13, 14:46
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31. Ivor # 1- the EU does not fund the settlements
Arnold ,   Montreal-Canada   (07.17.13)
The EU funds both the PA and Gaza. The EU BUYS product from Israel. There is a difference.
32. #22 Your point exactly?
Ivor Evenbiggergun   (07.17.13)
The withdrawal of aid from areas the wrong side of the Greenline is nothing to do with final status peace talks which will define the new borders, which were always going to be based on the Greenline, with what everyone acknowledged would be a few tweaks. I'll also like to take this opportunity to remind you that aid to Israel has not been cut
33. The Nerve!
James ,   Canada   (07.17.13)
Can't the EU let Israel illegally colonize and ethnically-cleanse the Palestinians in peace. The nerve of them!
34. Return all EU jewish land confiscated in Holocaust
Lemmings Hotline ,   sd usa   (07.17.13)
and then we'll talk. So many jewish homes in France, Germany, Poland, etc were confiscated when their inhabitants were ripped away from their homes and murdered. Why doesnt the EU sponsor the Palis to come live with them. Its the least you could do.
35. Results of Israel pull out
Harvey ,   London   (07.17.13)
Should Israel decide to unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank ( Abbas / Hamas will never agree to an irrevocable peace treaty because that means accepting a Jewish state ) it is patently clear that Abbas / PA will be swept aside in a matter of weeks if not days . Then Israel will find itself with Hamas / Hezbollah / Iran parked on its front lawn . How long before the first rockets land or an El Al passenger jet is taken out by an RPG from our new neighbours . Sure at that point the IDF pile in and the whole region goes up in flames . That's the most likely scenario envisaging an emboldened PA who can simply bide their time till they have everything . The Israeli left 972 etc have won a hollow victory . These benighted fools who aid and abet Israels enemies at every opportunity are leading Israel towards the cliffs . Much the same as their predecessors did prior to 1940 when the Appeasement movement first fed Austria and then The Czechs to their fate in their mistaken belief that would satisfy the Nazis . So it was so will it always be with the left , be it Israeli or otherwise # Trojan Horse .
36. #31 Arnold
Ivor Evenbiggergun   (07.17.13)
So what exactly are the settlers whinging about then? The EU are not cutting aid to Israel incidentally
37. #29. Israel fed up with leftist bootlicking & its price.
Chaim ,   Israel   (07.17.13)
I suppose you think you're clever putting down an M.K. who is acting with self respect. Not bootlicking our foes as you would. I've got news for you. Israel is fed up with leftist bootlicking and its always tragic consequences. Israel lost more than 1,000 murdered civilians and more than 14,000 maimed due to criminally negligent Oslo. We are not going to turn Israel into a 9 mile wide concentration camp to please cowardly leftists like you.
38. It doesn't matter what the Europeans say.
Stephen in New York   (07.17.13)
It only matters what Israel does. Lectures and resolutions from the feckless Europeans mean nothing.
39. EU BAN
tony ,   nigeria   (07.17.13)
Ship those goods to Nigeria. Nigerians will be very happy to buy them. We are waiting.
40. Idea
Gabe ,   il/us   (07.17.13)
Why don't we annex area C, give EU the middle finger and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities? According to our government and most Israelis we are capable of doing and surviving all three. So why not just do it? Screw diplomacy, lets start speaking our enemy's language. What is the worst thing that can happen? We'll find out who our real friend are? Because lives, land and financial assets we'll lose anyway.
41. If that is the case stop PM begging
DT ,   TA Israel   (07.17.13)
and cowering to the EU like some dog
42. Olmert. Olmert? Was there a question
Gideon Reader   (07.17.13)
regarding expensive pens of creative methods in acqusition of Cream Street housing? I am sure that if the current government requires an opinion from the "usta wuz" PM, they will have no trouble in locating him via his ankle braclet..
43. won′t give up to EU pressure?
John ,   Netherlands   (07.17.13)
well, that is really stupid mr Elkin.
44. Let's be realistic
PaulD ,   Jerusalem   (07.17.13)
"Israel won't give in to EU pressure " But, it already has. Just agreeing to the most ridiculous, dangerous solution on Earth, two states. One savage and Islamic state, and the other civil and moral. It will never work. Renounce it and save lives.
45. #37 Chaim's foul-mouthed responses
Michael ,   Haifa   (07.17.13)
Since you think that your foul-mouthed responses strengthen your arguments, let us try the same technique from my side. You accuse people (whom you call leftists) of bootlicking the EU. How about Israel's rabid right that licks a part of the anatomy of extremist Republican Congressmen and the Christian Evangelists who, incidentally, have a rather unpleasant agenda for you and your Judaism.
46. Michael #29
Baruch ,   Israel   (07.17.13)
What? You're still not in Brussels? Better watch out. We'll stick Elkin on to you, and then you'll know how terrifying.
47. Mark #23
Baruch ,   Israel   (07.17.13)
I suggest that you speak for yourself and maybe for Michael #29. By not residing in Israel you have no moral and/or legal right to lecture to those of us who do.
48. EU violates international law. Who will prosecute them?
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (07.17.13)
Did you people know that the UN, the world, Lebanon, the Arabs of Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jordan violate international law every day? The San Remo treaty of 1920 (and also verified and confirmed by the Anglo-American treaty signed December 3rd 1924 in London UK) stipulated the borders of the Jewish state and the borders of the Jewish state were meant to be Cis-Jordan (including Jerusalem, Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Golan Heights), Trans-Jordan (Jordan) and southern Lebanon up until the bend of the Litani river. According to the San Remo treaty and the Anglo-American treaty - legally binding documents that the UN and the world violate EVERY DAY, these territories belong to Israel. And further more: the Doctrine of Estoppel is a principle used in international law and the Doctrine of Estoppel means that a country cannot violate a treaty they signed before. Examples: many decades ago, the world, including Norway, agreed that Greenland belongs to Denmark. Norway signed that treaty. Decades later the Norwegians claim Greenland - in direct violation of the Doctrine of Estoppel. Since the world agreed in the San Remo treaty of 1920 and the Anglo-American treaty of 1924, that the borders of the Jewish state would be Cis-Jordan, Trans-Jordan and southern Lebanon up until the bend of the Litani river and Jews would be given the freedom to live, settle down and build whereever they wish within that territory, and since the world and the UN now act contrary to previous legally binding agreements, the world, when it insists on keeping Jews/Israelis out of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Golan, Gaza, Jordan and southern Lebanon violate international law and violate the Doctrine of Estoppel. It is not Jews claiming these lands that violates international law. It is denying Jews the right to these lands that is a violation of international law.
49. To Michael, Haifa in defence of Chaim + my theory
FG   (07.17.13)
I don't know why you are so worked up at the truth and the mirror oheld up by Chaim. 100 % tru what he says. You extremists Meretz-Hadash etc. supporters have the desires, a thory developed by Lenin: the worse, the better! In this case you merely want Israel to be raped by its enemies, in this case, the EU. Why hiding from the truth. By the way there is a name for this sort of behaviour: it starts with a "T". (I don't think you are Jewish by the way and have any right to be in Israel - based on the way you scolded Chaim's "Judaism". All too telling.)
50. #26 - yosef, phd
Devorah   (07.17.13)
You are correct. Nothing should come as a surprise to those who study the prophets, particularly Zkaryah, in relation to this latest censure by the EU.
51. To nr 21 EU can't trust Russia
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (07.17.13)
Russia has already demonstrated that several times. Ukraine and other countries were literally blackmailed a few years ago by Russian threats to cancel Russian natural gas deliveries thorugh pipelines. So what planet do you live on? Split-Planet? EU is highly dependent on Russian natural gas which makes the EU vulnerable to Russian blackmail. Germany, your little Poland splittie boy and Scandinavia are already in the clutches of the power crazed Russians in Moscow. And Russians are no friends of Poland you know. Let me guess: you'll copy my last sentence and repeat it right? And may I repeat to you split, that Ynet is an ISRAELI newspaper, so anti-Semites such as yourself have no Place here, and second, Poland is suffering from an irreversible demographic decline and collapse all confirmed by UN data, so hating Jews and Israel and gloating every day at our expense, when in fact Israel is only strenghtening itself every day, will not destroy Israel. Your daily rants and repetitive lies and sardonic, gloatful oneliners containing blatant lies against Israel are both tiresome and pathetic, because you can't save your native Poland.
52. We will never give in ..To any outside
Anat   (07.17.13)
outside bodies that think Israel is: The EU or anyone elses puddle Viva,viva Israel the true JEWISH country that belongs ONLY top Jews& no one else giving us orders.
53. WE NEED MORE MR.ELKINS ./
Anat   (07.17.13)
OUR COUNTRY BELONGING ONLY TO JEWS. GO BLESS MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE.. AM YISRAEL CHAI!!!!!!!!!!!
54. To 1 Ivor..1
KK   (07.17.13)
You name yourself UUNDULY: Ivor biggergun. I bet you never even held a gun or faught in your entire miserable life. I know of you & yours (at the other site that shall be namerless) You are anti Israel buffoon or worse. Go to hell and back. You are an irrelevance.
55. To no 18 to all commenters here:
KK   (07.17.13)
Ignore that buffoon who most probably lives in some western country whereby the islamists are taking over their country a :A BITE AT A TIME.. Not so Israel the APPLE OF GOD'S EYE.Better believe it mister NOBODY Lastly the EU mouse trying to fight against:THE LION OF JUDAH AS STRONG AS EVER. ;Will continue while them lot will be TEN FEET under the SOD but Israel will continue flourishing . To your chagrin. I hope PM BB never gives an INCH to the FAKERS plus the deluded BHO as his MINION Kerry the ERRAND BOY.
56. The EU Nations: If These Are Friends What From Enemies?
ltrail ,   United States   (07.17.13)
The EU should be ignored completely. There governments are filled with Muslim influence which causes the EU to act irrationally towards Israel. Doesn't really matter that the EU chooses to ban Mercantile between the EU and the settlements? They are acting very foolishly and hurting Europeans, hurting so-called Palestinians in their wake. Tonight I will open another bottle of wine from the Galilee Region. The EU wrongly describes the region of Judea and Samaria. As an example there is no place called East Jerusalem. There is no place called the west bank. That phrase was coined by Muslims of Jordan to describe land that they grabbed on the west side of the Jordan. That land belongs to the state of Israel. Land was victoriously fought for and won by the state of Israel, that land to its rightful owner. Deputy foreign minister, Zeev Elkin as spoken wisely.
57. 43 John from Islamic Republic of Holland
(07.17.13)
Who are the $$$$ Europeans ? Who will listen to these wimps European ? Abu John Suleiman Israel will not take orders from you. The days that Jews were under your mercy and you can do whatever as long gone. We are the new Jews that Europe cannot tell us what to do. Prepare for Islamic Government all over Europe. Good luck with your new Islamic republic
58. To 1 Ivor..1
KK   (07.17.13)
You name yourself UUNDULY: Ivor biggergun. I bet you never even held a gun or faught in your entire miserable life. I know of you & yours (at the other site that shall be namerless) You are anti Israel buffoon or worse. Go to hell and back. You are an irrelevance.
59. Pinhead @ 51 ,...
split ,   US   (07.17.13)
Google 'europe gas pipelines' and knock yoursef out ,...
60. This is NOT Oslo 2...the EU morons are
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (07.18.13)
just laughing stocks !
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