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European hypocrisy: Why single Israel out?
Ofir Haivry
Published: 11.11.15, 23:30
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1. Europe does to Israel what Israel does to religious Jews
Margalit ,   Israel   (11.12.15)
as simple as that. Israel is ready to destroy a holy synagogue, so Europe is ready to boycott Israel's goods.
2. EU
Nicki Adar ,   USA NYC   (11.12.15)
EU IS EUREBIA NOW ... IT CHANGES.. THEY BOYCOTT ISRAEL DUE TO THEIR MAJORITIES OF MUSLIMS. SOME ARE REFUGEES.. EU DEMOGRAPHIC WILL CHANGE. YES I DO FEEL FOR THE REFUGEES. HOWEVER, IT WOULD NO LONGER WILL BE EUROPE. JUST HAVE A LOOK AT U.K. WHY THOSE REFUGEES. DID NOT STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK? OR GO AND STAY NOT FAR LIKE GREECE CORETIA-FORMER YEGOSLAVIA. ..Y EU? ECONOMICALLY E.U. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BEAR IT. THEN THE DIFFERENT OF CULTURE WILL APPEAR... AT THE END WILL BE the Islam. JUST REMEMBER NON REFUGEES IN ITALY? What they WANTED TO DO TO THE "FRESCO" & OTHER ART. THEY HAVE 22 MUSLIMS COUNTRIES HOW COME NON OF THOSE TO NOT OPEN THEIR GATES TO THEIR own= THE REFUGEES? 22 COUNTRIES N. NONE TAKES THEM? It must be some kind of ISSUE TO THIS AGENDA STORY. T.Y.
3. find new markets and product sources. we buy more from them
ralph   (11.12.15)
then they do from us. hit them in the pocket book.
4. Eurpoean labeling
Bob Cooper ,   Dallas, Tx   (11.12.15)
Israel should put "Jude" on the label to make a point with this Euro-Trash.
5. Racial oppression leads to BDS
Stan ,   Israel   (11.12.15)
60 years ago sanctions and boycott against South Africa began because the non Whites in that country were not given basic human rights. Here the problem is the same, the whole world believes that the occupied west bank is Palestinian. Therefore our army is an army of occupation and the Pals do not have basic human rights. The only relevant example given in the article is Tibet. China, USA and Russia can do as they please in this world, Israel cannot.
6. Heheh ,...
split   (11.12.15)
There's a point that you have chosen to ignore, none of those regimes claim or pretend to be the only democracy in the region or the light unto the nations ,...
7. Time to reciprocate
Louis ,   New York   (11.12.15)
We should avoid EU products when possible . American Jews should go elsewhere on vacation Our communal organizations should protest and threaten economic countermeasures . Enough asking the anti-Semites to be nice and understand us
8. comment...
Adler J   (11.12.15)
Excusez moi but Israel settlements & East Jerusalem are not areas of conflict. Maybe from the Golan Israel can monitor some Syrian towns that are in war. Israel doesnt have conflicts, unless the writer is talking about double -standards, lack of self-criticism, lack of manners sometimes of course not always. love Israel as it is lol
9. Stop hiding the Occupation
Golden Dome ,   Washington, USA   (11.12.15)
Let the people decide if they want to buy stolen goods.
10. EU Hypocrisy
Mike Semoff ,   Toronto, Canada   (11.12.15)
Do you really have to ask why Israel is targeted by the E.U. Really?
11. Allah has invaded EU..
Beary White ,   Norway   (11.12.15)
.. and soon the leftist in EU will get f**ked by evil cult of islam. Congratulation Sweden, buy some Vaseline to be prepared...
12. There is no other area with settlements without citizenship
Harri ,   EU   (11.12.15)
There is no other disputed area with settlements of occupier without occupier citizenship for the native people and with daily harassment of the native people. And put your antisemitism accusations into your... If Israel was not a Jewish state, EU wouldn't do business with Israel at all. You are a friend of EU because you are Jewish, otherwise you would be a pariah state.
13. # 12 The EU's excuse for the products labeling is different
Moshe ,   Israel   (11.12.15)
It is not about granting Palestinians in Judea and Samaria Israeli citizenship, but because they view this area as not part of the Jewish state. As concerns "harassment" of its Arab habitants, security precautions that save many Jewish lives and which are being exercised in every country under terror are not harassment.
14. Because.....
Michael ,   Haifa   (11.12.15)
......we lay claim to being a most moral, civilized country, a people chosen by a god from all other peoples, and ,in fact, all this being far from the case
15. EU
Nicki Adar ,   USA NYC   (11.12.15)
EU IS EUREBIA NOW ... IT CHANGES.. THEY BOYCOTT ISRAEL DUE TO THEIR MAJORITIES OF MUSLIMS. SOME ARE REFUGEES.. EU DEMOGRAPHIC WILL CHANGE. YES I DO FEEL FOR THE REFUGEES. HOWEVER, IT WOULD NO LONGER WILL BE EUROPE. JUST HAVE A LOOK AT U.K. WHY THOSE REFUGEES. DID NOT STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK? OR GO AND STAY NOT FAR LIKE GREECE CORETIA-FORMER YEGOSLAVIA. ..Y EU? ECONOMICALLY E.U. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BEAR IT. THEN THE DIFFERENT OF CULTURE WILL APPEAR... AT THE END WILL BE the Islam. JUST REMEMBER NON REFUGEES IN ITALY? What they WANTED TO DO TO THE "FRESCO" & OTHER ART. THEY HAVE 22 MUSLIMS COUNTRIES HOW COME NON OF THOSE TO NOT OPEN THEIR GATES TO THEIR own= THE REFUGEES? 22 COUNTRIES N. NONE TAKES THEM? It must be some kind of ISSUE TO THIS AGENDA STORY. T.Y.
16. Why you ask?
EnuffisEnuff ,   Leiden Netherlands   (11.12.15)
The labeling issue is not because Israel is in a conflict. As stated there are plenty of conflict zones around the world. Wake up. The unique labeling issue is because Israel is the only country left in the world which is illegally occupying a huge geographic area and systematically subjugating another people. But its okay. You can keep telling yourself its because of all other reasons rather than face the truth. You Israelis are good at that.
17. Eurabia
Francis ,   Rome Italy   (11.12.15)
Because they are afraid of Islam. What a Imbecile part of the World is Europe become. Or should i say,Eurabia? bye bye Europe.
18. What message from Mogherini?
Tim ,   Brighton   (11.12.15)
So Mogherini throws impartiality and constructive engagement out of the window and is attempting to impose her will on Israel openly and flagrantly SIDING with the PA - ONE PARTY of the Israel-Palestine conflict against the other Implying that its Israel that is solely responsible for the lack of progress to a lasting agreement that we all want Forgetting too WHY and HOW Israel ended up in the West Bank in the first place...after a war of survival against enemies on all fronts. The so called 'occupation' of the West Bank was to provide a physical barrier to Israels vulnerable central belt just miles wide until cast iron guarantees could be made to ensure Israels security> Is Mogherini about to provide such guarantees? Yet right through this so called 'occupation' time and time again the PLO morphed into PA have shown they are not to be trusted. Even at this very moment the the PA still promote the narrative of a Palestine built on the ashes of Israel to its Palestinian Constituency as does Hamas and NOT any 2 State Solution Yet Mogherini makes demands on Israel like some sort of self appointed PA Spokesperson without demanding ANY concessions or conditions from them in return!! What her Labelling Fiasco is saying is Israel must withdraw UNCONDITIONALLY…Has she gone raving mad? And while she straddles up to find more ways to attack Israel, any other issues and developing crises are left hanging...she seems overwhelmed and so much out of her depth So the migrant crisis deepens, Shengen in tatters, relations with Russia worsen, terrorism and anti semitism driving many to migrate OUT of the EU, terrible things going on in Syria, Libya, Lebanon, the tragedy of Yemen, blatant Iranian hegemony and their designs on Bahrein., Artic issues,..... Sad to say that Mogherini will end up as possibly the worst, most damaging Minister for Foreign Affairs for the EU ever at time when the EU is under so much pressure
19. 1 margalit. More Yeshivot in Israel than anywhere
robert ,   antwerp belgium   (11.12.15)
20. Instead of fostering collective delusion
(11.12.15)
Israeli media should note which of those other occupying countries deny the occupied population the right of vote in the occupier's elections.
21. You rightist really don´t understand politics, do you?
Guy ,   Germany   (11.12.15)
Or is it still simply more convenient to completely deny reality?
22. #20 nice set of lies
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (11.12.15)
Actually ALL of those disputed territories deny the people the right to vote, including the United States. So you are totally ignorant and a liar
23. # 20 Learn a bit about the reality here
Moshe ,   Israel   (11.12.15)
Granting the "occupied population" the right to vote in Israel's election means to turn them into Israeli citizens. Aside from absorbing large enemy sworn folk, it will invert the Jewish state into a bi-national one, a development the Jews don't want. They deserve a country of their own, and the Arabs have 22. Before the Six Day War, the population of West Bank has been Jordanian citizens. After that conflict they had elections for their leadership and parliament. Until a peace treaty with them is established, it is enough.
24. European Hypocrisy
Irfan Haqqee ,   Mississauga, Canada   (11.12.15)
So in other words you are admitting Israel is also like China, also like India and Pakistan occupying lands belonging to others. Well in case of Russia there are sanctions applied for the Crimea "annexation". No sanctions against Israel can be applied thanks to support from the West including EU.
25. Western Sahara
Peter ,   Tel Aviv   (11.12.15)
As for the Western Sahara case, the EU signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) only with Morocco and not with any other entity that lays claim to the disputed territory. In the Palestinian context, however, the EU also signed a FTA with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). As argued by Israeli scholars Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, each of the two FTAs, with Israel and the PLO, has its own territorial scope and “there is no overlapping between the two.”
26. #16 A HUGE AREA?
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (11.12.15)
Are you for real ? This is a TINY area ,but it belongs to the jews.
27. If you want to get back at Europe then this is what you do
Liron ,   Melbourne, Australia   (11.12.15)
So the EU insists that products manufactured in the territories not say that it was made in Israel. This is what you can do. Israel should insist that Chanmpagne should be called methode champenoise just like every other methode champenoise or whatever it can be legally called these days. They can still include the word Champagne in the details, they just have to use the generic name like everyone else Then they should get the US to follow suit. Then they should do this for all the other products with place specific names like feta cheese.
28. #20 - half the countries in the world don't have elections
Someone   (11.12.15)
The Palestinians Authority is in control of the majority of Palestinians as per Oslo. Israel still controls Area C as per Oslo. Israeli Arabs vote, sit in Parliament, on the Supreme Court, and any other position in society. Maybe ask Abbas why he doesn't have elections when his term ran out last decade?
29. Morocco, Western Sahara, and AU
Farid H. ,   Morocco / Germany   (11.12.15)
The author is wrong in writing that the African Union suspended Morocco's membership because of the Sahara issue. Fact is that the predecessor of the AU, the OUA seated the "RASD", which prompted Morocco's King Hassan II to quit the OUA in protest. Morocco never joined the AU, because of RASD membership there. The AU invited Morocco to join multiple times, but Morocco persistently declined.
30. Why single "Israel" out?
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (11.12.15)
Simplicity itself! Because the very existence of this latter-day state called "Israel" offends not only Man, but, since 2,000 years ago, The Lord Himself. The EU is merely commencing its Divinely ordained mission, which soon will be a total world boycott. The other nations, though frankly sinful in many cases, do not exist illicitly from the get-go.
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