Posted on 12/18/2006 3:55:59 AM PST by Alouette
European Council urges Israel to release detained Hamas ministers alongside release of abducted IDF soldier Shalit; ‘Israel must put an end to all activities which are contrary to international law, including settlement activities and construction of barrier on Palestinian land
Ronny Sofer Published: 12.18.06, 12:35
The European Council called on Monday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to meet in the near future.
The Council urged Israel to release the detained Hamas ministers and parliament members and at the same time called on the Palestinians to release kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
The European Council reiterated its call for full and speedy implementation of the Roadmap.
The Council said in a statement, “As a first step, the following priorities should be pursued, following a calendar agreed between the parties and monitored by the Quartet: Full and speedy implementation of the Agreement on Movement and Access; full implementation of the Sharm-el Sheikh understandings, including the release of prisoners and resumption of security cooperation between the parties; parallel implementation by the parties of the obligations they have committed to under the first phase of the Roadmap.
“These, though important, are only initial steps, and must lead to meaningful negotiations on the final status, the ultimate goal of which is an end to the occupation that began in 1967 and the creation of an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state, living side-by-side with Israel and its other neighbours in peace and security,” the statement said.
The Council added that, “Violations of the ceasefire must end and it should be extended to the West Bank. For the ceasefire to be meaningful and sustainable it must be consolidated through a political process.”
The Council further demanded that the parties “take concrete and immediate measures to put an end to all acts of violence, and to all activities which are contrary to international law, including settlement activities and the construction of the barrier on Palestinian land.”
“The EU will not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 borders other than those agreed by both parties,” the statement said.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Attention spineless European/Eurabian Union:
There is no international law, and even if there was, you are too gutless to enforce it...
Hey, EU!
Mind your own business!
Dear Euoweenies - you are irrelevant.
Also, how many fingers am I holding up?
(Hint - more than none, and less than two.)
BTW, how DO you say 'Go F*ck yourselves' in Hebrew ????
FU EU.
Where is the Hamas "Prime Minister"? Israel prevented him from crossing into Gaza from Egypt with $35 million in cash, 5 days ago. Since then I have seen nothing about it. Did Olmert cave? Is he still in Egypt?
Where is the Hamas "Prime Minister"? Israel prevented him from crossing into Gaza from Egypt with $35 million in cash, 5 days ago. Since then I have seen nothing about it. Did Olmert cave? Is he still in Egypt?.......
IIRC correctly he was compelled to deposit the money in an Egyptian or Jordanian bank. Where Hamas can then access the funds but not so surreptitiously
Israel must do exactly the opposite. For each and every Paleo attack, they must take a small piece of Paleo land adjacent to the wall as training area for the Israeli military. Then build another section of wall around it.
And loudly and clearly state that it is non-negotiable. That it is gone forever, no longer Paleo territory. And not for Israeli settlers, either. It is to remain fallow. Trespassers will be shot.
If anyone so much as mentions it during negotiations, the Israelis walk out. If someone like the EU ever mentions it, the Israelis must liken it to a hostile act for which the EU must be punished. Intolerance becomes virtue.
This is because the Paleos have made it abundantly clear that the ONLY thing they care about is land. Not their own lives, nor the lives of their children and wives. Not their prosperity, nor their future. Only land. They have endless greed and covetousness of land. Their own, other people's. They want every corner of the world to be under the flag of Islam, something which they think is inevitable.
It is truly the only thing they care about. Which is why, if the Israelis did this, the Paleos would scream as if hot irons had been put on their bare flesh. It would be more painful to them then anything else, even the death of their children.
But it just might be the one thing that would compel them to stop the violence. Not the offer to get new lands, or the offer to get their taken lands back. But the fear of losing even an inch of "their" land.
Only the threat that if they do not stop the violence, then eventually they will lose ALL of their land. THAT, and that alone, may get them to stop the destruction and killing.
Translation:
Ignore those rockets that just seem to dropping outta the sky!
Memo to EU from Virginia: Kiss my shrimp and grits!
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