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July 26, 2012
PU to the EU
Behold the European Union, i.e., a union of countries that brought you, or capitulated to Nazism; Fascism; Communism; and currently, working on Islamism.
Apparently, this Union of Capitulators turned down a request Tuesday by Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to blacklist Hezbollah as a terror group after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria (story below).
According to Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency), Hezbollah is an organisation comprising a party as well as an armed wing and is active in Lebanese politics.
"Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations," she said.
Understandable, of course, as the Nazi party was also an organization comprising a party as well as an armed wing, and was very active in German politics.
Your Middle East | July 24, 2012
EU Refuses Israeli Request To Blacklist Hezbollah
AFP
The European Union turned down a request Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hezbollah as a terror group after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria.
"There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations," said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Israel blames Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah for Wednesday's suicide attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver died.
But an EU decision would require the unanimous approval of all its 27 members.
Sitting beside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: "The time has come to put Hezbollah on the terrorist list of Europe."
"It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people."
But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hezbollah was an organisation comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was "active in Lebanese politics".
"Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations," she said.
The EU would consider this if there were tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terror, she added.
Lieberman said Israel was continuing to compile evidence from the Bulgaria attack and would onpass proof to the EU.
But in Israel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP that "for years we have been providing Europe with information on Hezbollah's direct involvement in terror attacks.
"But certain states in the EU have clarified to us that because of political reasons, they prefer to not add Hezbollah to the list, despite them not disputing the evidence."
Original article here.
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