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Titolo: 'Europe bound to become irrelevant if Israel criticism continues'

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'Europe bound to become irrelevant if Israel criticism continues'
 
Following European condemnation of settlement activity, Jerusalem
issues sharp rebuke to France, Germany, England and Portugal: Focus on
Syria and Iran instead of criticizing Israel • U.S. also says European
statements not conducive to peace.
Shlomo Cesana, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
 
Israel sent a sharp message to Europe on Wednesday in response to a
statement published by the U.K., France, Portugal and Germany
condemning Israel's settlement construction and "price-tag" activities
in the West Bank.
 
"Israel calls on the European members of the U.N. Security Council to
support the resumption of direct talks between Israel and the
Palestinians under the Quartet plan, adopted by Israel despite its
rejection by the PA," an especially assertive Foreign Ministry
statement said. "The European UNSC members must adhere to the wording
of the Quartet plan and refrain from giving it interpretations that
contradict both the letter and the spirit of the original text. This
misreading only adds obstacles on the path towards renewing peace
negotiations. Interfering with Israel's domestic affairs, including on
issues which are to be solved within the framework of direct talks,
does not enhance the status they wish to be granted."
 
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The statement marks an unusual move by the Foreign Ministry as it
targets European countries with whom Israel generally has friendly
relations, and whose condemnation of Israel's settlement construction
is not a new phenomenon.
 
Just last month, EU foreign ministers gathered in Brussels issued a
statement condemning Israeli construction in Jerusalem's Gilo
neighborhood. The announcement said that the approval of construction
runs "contrary to efforts made by the Quartet."
 
In the most recent European condemnation on Tuesday, Britain, France,
Germany and Portugal said in a joint statement after a U.N. Security
Council meeting on the Middle East conflict that they were "dismayed"
by Israeli settlement activity and the threat it poses to the peace
process.
 
"One of the themes that emerged was the severely damaging effect that
increased settlement construction and settler violence is having on
the ground and on the prospects of a return to negotiations," the four
EU council members said in a joint statement. "Israel's continuing
announcements to accelerate the construction of settlements in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories, including east Jerusalem, send a
devastating message."
 
In response to the EU's message, Wednesday's Foreign Ministry
statement urged European U.N. Security Council members to "focus on
the international agenda rather than turn upside down the fitting
priorities of the international community."
 
According to the Foreign Ministry, during the UNSC meeting, EU
representatives should have focused not on Israel but on efforts to
bring peace to bloodshed-ridden countries such as Syria, on promoting
the transition to democracy and moderation in Arab countries seeking
freedom, and on restraining the global danger posed by Iran's pursuit
of nuclear weapons.
 
"If, instead of contributing to stability in the Middle East through
these steps, [the European UNSC members] invest their efforts in
inappropriate bickering with the one country where the independent law
and justice system can handle lawbreakers of all kinds, they are bound
to lose their credibility and make themselves irrelevant," the Foreign
Ministry statement said. "The European UNSC members have chosen to do
what is easy and unnecessary, rather than muster their courage and do
that which is difficult and necessary."
 
Head of the National Information Directorate Yoaz Hendel also issued a
response to the EU's condemnation of Israel, saying, "The
international community should have concentrated on what is happening
in Syria and in other parts of the Middle East before it criticizes
Israel."
 
In an apparently different tone, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told
Israel Radio on Thursday that the European countries in question are"
very relevant" and that they stood with Israel on significant issues,
like Iran's nuclear program. "We should point out their mistake but we
shouldn’t fight with them," Barak said Thursday on Israel Radio. "Even
if our statement is right, we should be wise in how we convey it.
We're not speaking about Tanzania and other countries. We're talking
about Germany and France. They're very relevant to us. We should point
out their mistake but we shouldn’t fight with them," Barak added.
 
The U.S. on Tuesday also spoke out against the European condemnation
of Israel, saying statements in the UNSC are not conducive to bringing
Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
 
"Shouting from the rooftops of the Security Council is not going to
change the situation on the ground, which is that these parties have
to get back to the table and settle these issues together, and that’s
the way we’re going to have a lasting, stable peace," U.S. State
Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said during a press briefing on
Wednesday.
 
"The best way to deal with this issue of land, settlement, et cetera,
is for these parties to talk to each other, come up with borders, and
then have two states living side by side in agreed borders," Nuland
stressed.
 
Meanwhile, in what appears to be an attempt to ease diplomatic
tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli
government said it would support a U.S. compromise that would resume
aid to the Palestinians, Ben Smith writing for POLITICO reported on
Wednesday.
 
Last week, the U.S. Congress proposed to resume U.S. economic aid to
the Palestinians next year so long as 'Palestine' is not admitted as a
state to any more U.N. organizations.
 
The measure pending before lawmakers would appear to give the
Palestinians a pass on the U.N. organization they have already joined
— the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
 
It also says that the Palestinian mission in Washington can remain
open so long as 'Palestine' is not admitted to a single additional
U.N. entity.
 
The proposed spending plan was released by congressional Republicans,
who say it was agreed between Republican and Democratic appropriators
as a spending plan for fiscal 2012. It was unclear how soon a vote
would be held, or whether details of the plan would change.
 
Israel has now also made its support for the plan public.
 
In a statement provided to POLITICO, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
Michael Oren said, "The Israeli government would welcome the decision
to lift the congressional hold on U.S. funding for the Palestinian
Authority in the West Bank. We appreciate that the hold was placed to
demonstrate to the Palestinians the consequences of their attempts to
declare statehood unilaterally at the United Nations, without making
lasting peace with Israel. The Israeli government's position follows a
decision by the Obama administration and Congress to declare specific
consequences, including the closure of the PLO office in Washington
and the withholding of future funding for the Palestinian Authority,
and the fact that the Palestinians have refrained from additional U.N.
initiatives."

 'Europe bound to become irrelevant if Israel criticism continues'
 
mare grosso sullo stretto di Messina, isolato il continente...:D

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Signore, ultimi deliri prima della morte. 
 
 

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guardali qui come sclerano, perche' non riescono a sottometterci.

 guardali qui come sclerano, perche' non riescono a sottometterci.
 
Denuncerò a tutte le autorità competenti quell'odioso atto di
antisemitismo consistente nello sterminio dei neuroni da parte dei
demoni  che ti infestano la scatola cranica, visto che sei convinto
che io o chiunque altro, su IPi o in Europa, sia interessato a
sottometterti.

 sottometterti.
 
manno'. Trovo semplicemente ridicole le pretese, p. es., del Mercosur,
di intromettersi nella politica estera del Kazakhistan. E roba
equivalente. Te non ci trovi nulla di ridicolo? Deve essere una
questione di religione.

 di intromettersi nella politica estera del Kazakhistan.
 
la politica estera del kazakistan riguarda i rapporti tra il
kazakistan e il resto del mondo, quello in cui c'è appunto il
Mercosur.
E comunque quella frase è leggermente diversa da "sclerano, perche'
non riescono a sottometterci. "

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qui c'era il post di un depresso.

 non riescono a sottometterci. "
 
Dici? Non ci sono mai stati tentativi di parte europea di massacrare
ebrei? Di negare a loro il diritto ad uno Stato e a difenderlo?
 

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Potrebbe anche trattarsi di un desiderio inconscio di essere sottomesso.
 
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 ebrei?
 
quindi la pace è lo sterminio degli ebrei, e per evitarlo l'unica
soluzione è lo stato di guerra permanente. Sei tortkzista inside...:D

 quindi la pace è lo sterminio degli ebrei,
 
e' la tua, non sorprendente, opinione.

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non sono io che equiparo l'indebita intromissione europea nel processo
di pace allo sterminio