Israeli officials had been looking to “send a message” to the European Union to express their displeasure at the EU guidelines banning the involvement of EU citizens in settlement operations run in contrary of international law. The message sent today is far beyond what was expected.
Israeli troops attacked a group of EU diplomats in the occupied West Bank today, throwing concussive grenades at them and flinging them to the ground in front of international reporters, ignoring the diplomatic immunity enjoyed by the officials.
Having done that, the troops seized all of the emergency aid that the diplomats had, including a truckload of tents, and made off with it, trucks and all.
The Israeli military confirmed the incident, claiming they had “foiled” an attempt by the diplomats to rebuild the demolished homes of Palestinians. Officials with Israel’s Foreign Ministry also said they are considering filing a formal complaint to the French government because one of the diplomats, a French woman who was thrown violently out of the truck by troops, behaved inappropriately in complaining about it, though other government officials said they planned to investigate the reports of the diplomat’s mistreatment.
The tents appear to have been intended to provide temporary shelter to the civilian population of Khirbet al-Makhul, a small Bedouin village destroyed on Monday.
Any international norms in need of restoring here, Mr. President?
Hollande, the compliant servant, will probably punish the French diplomat. He becomes a rabid pit bull only with the weak.
That special relationship again. Don't hold your breath for chastisement from the butt kissers. All hail USrael. Anything goes. Any time, any place. Punishment ? A deep scowl ? never. Genuflect ! Genuflect.
Let's hope that the powers within the EU decide to boycott Israel after this criminal stunt. What else could one expect from such a vile outlaw government, and military that is above all ridicule, and international law. Pray for blowback..and soon.
More than Half of the European government have one or two Israeli agent working as foreign minister or other ministers, Swedish foreign minster is one of them, the English, French the Germans openly helping Israeli apartheid regime with all they can even with a nuclear submarine given to Israel by Germans, so they deserve to be attacked by such regime they deserve it. You want for Israel to respect humans and humanities, than you need to talk to them with the only language they understand, boycott the regime totally.
I AGREE. THE WORLD DESPISES ISRAEL.
Telephones to EU politicians will be ringing off the hook with the caller angrily demanding that the respective countries publicly apologize for the diplomats' unbecoming behaviour.
It's like a long S&M game.
Do you ever get the feeling the Israelis don't really want their country to succeed?
That in fact they realize being dysfunctional is the only thing they can expect from
each other– and so they have decided to ram it down the rest of the world's throat
as well.
Israel is treating the whole EU the way they treated Turkey back when it was still a friend and ally.
The US will never stand up to Israel.
I welcome the crazies in Israel forcing the EU to stand up to them without the US. That is where this goes. ASAP.
I have been told that the JPost is carrying a deluge of outrage against the EU over this. The Israeli society represented by its press is openly hostile to the EU and entirely in support of throwing flash bang grenades at its diplomats, throwing them to the ground, and stealing their vehicles. Great.
Obama will prove again to the SANE among us that he is indeed the "champion spit-licker"
of the world. His colony of "little nematodes" will follow like good subordinate blobs.
So much for the WORLD'S SUPER POWER!!
The Zionist has nothing to fear they have the backing of another rouge state, "the USA" Obama will try to keep a straight face when he say's "Israel has a right to protect it's national interest" notice how the word "right" only applied to that one country in the middle east.?
Well,I guess rouge works as they are covered in blood,but rogue is the adjective you were looking for.And no comment in our MSM about any of this,just like the news the Israelis comb through our privacy.
Absolute lawlessness. There are no limits for apartheid Israel and there are never any consequences because the US media and our entire political and financial system is so completely controlled.
Where are the French when you need one, Hollande went bonkers against Syria after the alleged government gas attack, not a word now? As I said before, where are the French pussies now?
any US msm report on this
Considering that the double-headed DC/Tel Aviv monster has already shredded diplomatic rights and norms – e.g., forcing the airplane of the head of state of a sovereign nation to land so that a search could be carried out – it comes as no surprise that Zionist thugs would physically attack a diplomatic mission. At this point, the only issue is whether the EU supinely "takes it," or actually does something about it. If the EU has any self-respect, there are quite a few Zionist spy nests – err, I mean embassies – in the EU zone that could be subjected to mortar barrages.
Actually, there was already a similar incident earlier this month. A French consulate employee was detained at a border crossing from Jordan into the West Bank with a load including checks, gold, tobacco and cell phones. In my opinion, this was most likely intended partly as aid to the Palestinians but also as pay and bribe money to French intelligence service assets.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/07/french-cons…
This incident appears to have been accidental — just an unplanned search by suspicious border guards. It might, however, helped to inspire a subsequent Israeli policy decision.
Here's a pic from Haaretz of the IDF beasts dragging the French female diplomat. Check out the weak responses from European officials too afraid to use harsh language to condemn this dispicable Israeli act.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.5…
Funny that there have been only three comments allowed on this piece. I don’t know about anyone else, but my original comments were never posted. I suppose the subject of this article drew some harsh comments and the censors have blocked them so as not to piss off certain elements. This absolutely illustrates the rotten influence on free discourse here in America.
[moderator’s note: No, it illustrates that sometimes comment moderators sleep, that sometimes comment moderators get up in the morning and have semi-emergency situations to deal with, etc. But if it makes you feel better to fantasize about giant conspiracies to keep your comments from the public, knock yourself out – TLK]
I stand corrected, but there have been other instances when comments WERE scrubbed, removed or not printed on the subject of Israel, so it was plausible to imagine that it could happen again.
It's true that there are cases where comments that are critical of Israel are not approved.
It is not true that those comments are not approved BECAUSE they are critical of Israel.
Anyone who wants to criticize Israel is free to do so here. They just have to be willing to omit hatred of Jews from those criticisms.
And who decides whether it's hatred towards jews? Reminds me of an analogy where a white person uses the word Nigger, and it's automatically a negative overture. However, if a black person uses the word Nigger, it's okay. Now the state of Israel likes to incorporate their Jewish heritage along with their national state and then Zionism as well as being racists. I don't agree.
"And who decides whether it's hatred towards jews?"
I do — if I'm the one reading your comment for moderation purposes.
You don't have to like it. You don't have to agree. It's that way whether you like it or agree or not.
Why don't you display my last post?
Moderators should not be rude; if you do not want to do the job in a responsible way, quit. Israel deserves to be criticised; if not, how will their citizens realize that the world despises the actions of their government.
Moderators should be at least as rude as those they moderate.
The moderator´s note is not is not trustable. I have written comments in the most polite language which have not been approved, I have not been able to figure out the reasons.Seems like i and the censor have different mind frameworks. .
"Polite" isn't the criterion.
I don't recall ever deciding to not approve any of your comments, but I'm not the only moderator here so it might have been someone else. Or my memory could be imperfect.
I guess the Israeli's aren't getting enough world news. Israel likes to be in the news regularly. It creates jobs and keeps the Christians giving money to their cause. As some have alluded to, Israel has spies in every country. They are the leading nation of intelligence. Nothing will change with the current regime in Israel. They are the most dangerous nation on Earth. If anyone pushes buttons for war in any part of the world, it will be Israel. "the point man" for the U.S. will continue to lead the world in a war like direction, for it benefits greatly from it.
I am surprised the moderator allowed your comment to be printed. One has to be careful NOT to criticise Israel but it will not work.
waste of time; not interested
We Americans love Israel so much we pay them to steal our secrets and trade them to our military adversaries….
Attacked? WTH?? who attacked whom? the abusive diplomatic Frenchie slapped the IDF soldier in his face, beside they were only PROVOKING and disturbing since no tents are allowed on that area.
Two words makes Unisreal untouchable: Rothschild and Rockefeller. Unisreal will never suffer any consequences because they have the backing of the two most powerful billionaire oligarch factions on earth, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers. When even the president of the asylum states and its congress both crawl on their knees and do what the unisreal lobby tells them to do, you know there is no hope of ever bring this rogue state into line……………So give it up people, the idea of bringing peace to the middle east region is a pipe dream. So sayeth the rothschilds and the rockefellers.