[Full article here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789009.html ]
Quotes from Today's Ha'aretz:
"Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Thursday announced plans to launch the initiative, stressing that the international community cannot remain idle as violence rages between Israel and the Palestinians."
"Zapatero announced the new European initiative at a summit with President Jacques Chirac of France. "Peace between Israel and the Palestinians means to a large extent peace on the international scene," Zapatero told a news conference."
This is akin to a rapist telling the trail judge that it was only the biting, scratching, and screaming of the victim that turned what could have been a peaceful encounter into a full-blown violent crime. "Your honour, if the bitch had just quietly submitted, the jury would never have even known about this. So I'm actually innocent, and it's her fault".
The judge agrees that Israel fighting back is purely unreasonable, and dismisses the case. But also shows an unclean interest in being able to watch next time around.
One more quote: "Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Rudineh said Thursday that his government welcomed the initiative, particularly its emphasis on international intervention."
I'm sure he would. Internationals in Lebanon are turning a blind-eye to the resupplying of Hezbollah. He expects the same favourable treatment.
International interventions and peace-missions have not been gloriously successful.
Nor is there any evidence to suggest that the Europeans are willing to risk the ire of the Arab world. Which ab initio indicates flaws in the idea of the Europeans being an impartial buffer between the two sides. Their idleness up to this point has been nothing if not partisan.
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I'm sure he would. Internationals in Lebanon are turning a blind-eye to the resupplying of Hezbollah. He expects the same favourable treatment.
Don't be such a cynic. You have to agree that there can't be peace in the region if the international world doesn't treat the parties in a balanced way. The Palestinians have had to suffer very much, and it's only fair they're treated the same way as the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Every time the international community has been responsible to stop the attempted extermination of Jews, they have failed miserably, at times joining in the butchery.
Israel has no morality lessons to learn from the UN or EU.
Rodriguez Zapatero, why don't you recall the Spanish Inquisition and shut your mouth, sir?
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