Outraged as it often is, Israel’s Foreign Ministry today summoned the European Ambassador and demanded an official explanation for comments made by the European Commission earlier in the day criticial of Israel’s settlement policy.
The European Commission said the Israeli policies were strangling the economy of the West Bank, and said it had cost EU member nations $280 million so far this year by forcing the Palestinians living under occupation to rely on foreign aide from Western nations for their survival.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s has earned him a lot of enemies in Europe, and last week French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oust Lieberman and replace him with a more acceptable candidate, suggesting opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
The European Union has been among several nations calling for Israel to abandon the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and work toward the creation of a Palestinian state. The Israeli government has accepted the notion of a state, with some reservations, but has insisted the settlement expansion must continue unfettered.
"The Israeli government has accepted the notion of a state, with some reservations, but has insisted the settlement expansion must continue unfettered."
Which is to say that they'll continue jaw boning and dragging their heels forever. This is their idea of "dialogue" up until the point they say "Hey!… Too late. Guess there's nothing to be done seeing as there are SO many settlers… sucks to be you!" "Oh, and by the way, keep the money rolling in… nothing like getting hand outs and biting the hand that feeds you to make one grateful".
The Zionists don't think of it as expanding settlements. To them, its more like making a tasty pastrami sandwich.
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Winston S. Churchill III, grandson of the famed British prime minister, recalled last October at the National Press Club here a telling encounter he had had in 1973 with the hawkish Ariel Sharon, now the Israeli prime minister, about Zionist objectives. "What is to become of the Palestinians?" Churchill asked. "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them," Sharon said. Churchill responded, "What?" "Yes, we'll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between the Palestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years' time, neither the United Nations nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart." Geoffrey Aronson, who is recognized in the US as the preeminent American expert on the Israeli settlement movement, loves to relate this significant exchange as he did in an interview with The Daily Star on two different occasions.
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Ooooo…. my God! How dare anyone, including the EU, criticize the benevolence and loving kindness that expanding their settlements bestows upon the ungrateful Palestinians. What's next, criticism of the fabled and most "moral" army in the world, the IDF? Oy!
A copy of the map of The West Bank should be reproduced in millions of copies and posted to every single address so that people can start understanding the real nature of the Palestinian problem. Very few persons are well informed of the obscenity of what is taking place and the American people are condoning because disinformed.
Until the world grabs the Zionists by their balls and squeezes til they can't take it anymore, the Israelis will continue to strut around and act like the racist swine they are.
As a citizen of a member country of the European Union, I am absolutely outraged by this. How dare the EU Ambassador not tell Lieberman to fuck off!