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Titolo: Scintille tra Commissione UE e Congresso Mondiale Ebraico

Comincio a rispondere da solo alla mia domanda di ieri (ma che è successo
tra Prodi e Benatoff?) con un articolo del Jerusalem Post.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=
1073355489140
Coby Benatoff ed Edgar Bronfmann, presidente del congresso europeo ebraico e
del congrresso mondiale ebraico, hanno comprato insieme una pagina sul
Financial Times per accusare la commissione europea di gravi errori nei
rapporti con gli ebrei ed israele (tra cui il JP cita gli incidenti dei due
sondaggi) e di aver chiuso gli occhi, di fronte all'antisemitismo che
risorge in Europa, se non peggio: infatti nella lettera i due scrivono:
"L'antisemitismo si può esprimere in due modi: con l'azione o con
l'inazione. Curiosamente la commissione è colpevole di entrambi".
Prodi si è dichiarato sorpreso e scioccato dell'iniziativa ed ha fermato i
preparativi di un seminario sull'antisemitismo che si andava organizzando,
almeno finché i due presidenti non collaboreranno a ricostruire un clima più
costruttivo.
Tb
EU suspends seminar on anti-Semitism
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Douglas Davis    Jan. 7, 2004
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European Commission President Romano Prodi has suspended a seminar on
anti-Semitism, after World Jewish Congress president Edgar Bronfman and
European Jewish Congress president Coby Benatoff accused the commission of
encouraging anti-Semitism.
Prodi, who declared himself to be "both surprised and shocked" by the
charges, told Bronfman and Benatoff that the seminar will
not now go ahead as scheduled next month: "The attitude you have shown...
forces me to suspend the preparations," he wrote.
In a letter to The Financial Times published Monday, Bronfman and Benatoff
accused the commission ­ the executive branch of the European Union ­ of
suppressing a study that highlighted Muslim involvement in the rise of
anti-Semitic attacks in Europe.
They also accused the commission of releasing of a "flawed and dangerously
inflammatory" poll conducted throughout the EU, which showed that the
majority of respondents regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace.
"Let us not mince words," they wrote. "Both of these actions were
politically motivated, demonstrating a failure of will and decency. Outside
Israel, the majority of the world's violent anti-Semitic attacks took place
in Western Europe. For the EU to hide these facts reeks of intellectual
dishonesty and moral treachery.
"Anti-Semitism can be expressed in two ways: by action and inaction.
Remarkably, the European Commission is guilty of both."
In response, Prodi denied that the commission censored the study from the
Vienna-based European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia: "You
perfectly know that the Vienna Center is an independent institution and that
the European Commission has no power at all to interfere," he wrote.
He also dismissed suggestions that the Eurobarometer poll was "politically
motivated," adding that no such criticism was leveled when he met with
Jewish leaders after its release in November.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose country held the rotating EU
presidency at the time, called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to express his
"surprise and indignation" at the results of the poll, saying the question
had been "misleading."
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 tra Prodi e Benatoff?) con un articolo del Jerusalem Post.
Fra i due non saprei.
Ma so che il mortadellissima sta dando una grandiosa prova di meschinità.
Ciao
Ad'I
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