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EU slams Israel for its policies in East Jerusalem
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European Union diplomats have said Israel's policies in Arab East Jerusalem are hurting the prospects of a final agreement on the city with the Palestinians, U.S. and British newspapers said on Friday.
The New York Times said a report by EU diplomats in East Jerusalem and Ramallah to the 25-member group's foreign ministers recommended a more aggressive policy toward Israeli actions in East Jerusalem.
The report accused Israel of boosting illegal settlement in and around East Jerusalem and of using the route of its separation barrier "to seal off most of East Jerusalem, with its 230,000 Palestinian residents, from the West Bank" and to create a "de facto annexation of Palestinian land," the paper said.
Israeli policies "are reducing the possibility of reaching a final-status agreement on Jerusalem that any Palestinian could accept," said the report, which the Times said it had obtained "from someone who wanted to publicize it."
Several British newspapers also carried the report.
"Israeli measures also risk radicalizing the hitherto relatively quiescent Palestinian population of East Jerusalem," the Times quoted the report as saying.
The authors of the report recommended that the EU ask Israel "to halt discriminatory treatment of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, especially concerning working permits, building permits, house demolitions, taxation and expenditure," it said.
Commenting on the report, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said:
"We have accepted the principle that there has to be a viable and contiguous Palestinian state and nothing that we are doing excludes the possibility of reaching that outcome."
(Basically saying that it doesn't matter what they do to these people as long as they're working on a Palestinian state)
On the West Bank barrier, he said:
"The security fence (at least now we can cleary once again see why ItoDaGeezy is such a brainwashed tool) is a remarkably successful tool in preventing the penetration of suicide bombers into Israel."
The New York Times said EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday decided not to publish the report and instead asked for a "detailed EU analysis on East Jerusalem to be adopted and made public" at their next meeting in mid-December.
Israel seized East Jerusalem, along with the rest of the West Bank and Gaza, in the 1967 Middle East War and claims the city as its "united and eternal capital." Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of their own.
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I guess the EU is now anti-Semitic. ::)
I TO DA GEEZY:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on November 25, 2005, 02:42:37 AM ---I guess the EU is now anti-Semitic. ::)
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You guess correctly!
7even:
niggaz be on some victim shit
Don Rizzle:
ook so let me get this straight anti-semitic = criticising israels wrong doings? like they are above all laws and exempt from acting with morals
I TO DA GEEZY:
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on November 25, 2005, 05:50:15 AM ---ook so let me get this straight anti-semitic = criticising israels wrong doings? like they are above all laws and exempt from acting with morals
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Unequivocally-Yes, when there is complete disregard of the Palestinian Leadership's and Palestinian militant group's misconduct that, when viewed, explains the coercion in every ostensible Israeli misconduct.
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on November 04, 2005, 02:38:14 AM ---And even more to the point:
Delegitimization and Antisemitism
Is anti-Zionism different from antisemitism?
Israel, as a democracy, is receptive to fair and legitimate criticism. However, all too often Israel is singled out and held up to standards not applied to any other state. Although valid criticism of Israel has absolutely no connection to antisemitism, some of the unreasonable condemnation has its roots in antisemitic attitudes, often disguised as "anti-Zionism." Just as in the past Jews were the scapegoat for many problems, today there are attempts to turn Israel into an international pariah.
"Antisemitism" is the name given to the form of racism practiced against the Jewish people. Though the literal interpretation of antisemitism would appear to denote hostility to all Semitic peoples, this is a fallacy. The term was originally coined in Germany in 1879 to describe the European anti-Jewish campaigns of that era, and it soon came to define the persecution or discrimination against Jews throughout the ages.
Hatred of the Jewish people is an age-old phenomenon, traditionally associated with expressions of xenophobia and religious intolerance. Antisemitism has taken different forms and used various motifs throughout history. In modern times, it has been promoted by extreme nationalistic and even racist ideologies. Severe antisemitism exists in Arab countries today.
Egyptian version (1994) of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
Egyptian version (2001) of antisemitic tract "The International Jew"
Antisemitism reached its peak in the Holocaust. Over 6 million Jews (one third of the world's Jewish population) were brutally and systematically murdered during World War II.
Modern antisemitism in Europe, after being repressed for decades, has erupted with renewed fury in recent years in a new form: "anti-Zionism," or hatred of the State of Israel.
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people - an expression of their legitimate aspiration to self-determination and national independence. The Zionist movement was founded to provide an ancient people with a sovereign state of its own, in its ancestral homeland. Israel is the modern political embodiment of this age-old dream.
The goal of anti-Zionism is to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, thereby denying the Jewish people their place in the community of nations. Denigration of Zionism is therefore an attack on Israel's basic right to exist as a nation equal to all other nations, in violation of one of the fundamental principles of international law.
Just as antisemitism denies Jews their rights as individuals in society, anti-Zionism attacks the Jewish people as a nation, on the international level. Similar to the use of "the Jew" as a scapegoat for many a society's problems, Israel has been singled out for disproportionate and one-sided condemnation in the international arena.
Anti-Zionism is often manifested as attacks on Israel in the United Nations and other international forums. Over the years, many a meeting and event of the international community has been exploited as an opportunity to condemn Israel - no matter what the subject matter, no matter how tenuous the tie to the conflict in the Middle East.
Moreover, it is no coincidence that the recent censure of Israel in international forums and the media has been accompanied by a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents in many parts of the world.
As a nation dedicated to the principles of democracy, Israel believes that criticism, whether by other nations or our own people, is a powerful force for positive change. However, there is a clear distinction between legitimate calls for improvement and the attempt to delegitimize Israel by consistently singling it out and holding it up to standards not applied to other states. All this ignores the context in which Israel must strive to survive in the face of violent attacks against its citizens and, all too often, against its very existence.
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but since you, as you say:
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on November 01, 2005, 10:47:34 AM --- can't be arsed to read all that
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I believe you will maintain the same brainwashed opinion untill it's no longer germane.
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