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| European Union officials condemn Israeli action in Gaza |
| 2007-10-11 |
| Calling Gaza a "prison" and a "ghetto," European Union parliamentarians harshly condemned Israeli actions there in a special session held in Brussels on Wednesday. During the hour-long, heated debate in advance of a Thursday vote on a resolution, parliamentarians, as well as EU officials, called on Israel to open the Gaza borders to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in the impoverished area where 1.1 million of the 1.4 m. population are dependant on the international donations for basic food supplies. In one of the more impassioned speeches, Belgian MEP Veronique De Keyser called Gaza a "ghetto" where "people are dying little by little with cameras trained on them." While the IDF is working on a proposal to close the borders between Gaza and Israel in favor of Egyptian crossings, EU parliamentarians called on Israel to find a solution to the problem. In particular, it urged Israel to live up to its commitment to ensure pedestrian passage at Rafah and full commercial movement in Karni. The Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June forced the closure of the main commercial crossing into Israel at Karni and the pedestrian one into Egypt at Rafah. The third major crossing into Israel at Erez has been opened for limited pedestrian traffic. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Welcome to post-modern anti-Semitism. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-11 14:16 |
| #7 Oh yeah now I remember Belgian MEP Veronique De Keyser. she's quite the...uhem...diplomat. Remember this quote? “I wonder how they are able to limit violence in the territories given the background,” she said. “If the Israeli ambassador comes in the future to speak of Israel’s security, I feel like I want to strangle him.” |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-10-11 10:42 |
| #6 "It urged Israel to live up to its commitment to ensure pedestrian passage [for terrorists] at Rafah" |
| Posted by: Leroidavid 2007-10-11 08:00 |
| #5 Lets say it: lot of EU parliamentarians and journalists are just filled with antisemitism... Interesting to see that, once more, a Belgian is leading the European anti-Israeli anti-Jewish campaign: during WWII, the Belgians were some of the best collaborators of the nazis, arresting and delivering more than 44% of the Jews living in Belgium (in France, 22% of the Jews were arrested and delivered to the Nazis). Old habits not gone... |
| Posted by: Leroidavid 2007-10-11 07:36 |
| #4 It's the ideology of victimization, 3DC. The Palestinians could never be victims of their own treachery and savagery, now could they? |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-11 01:55 |
| #3 I fail to understand why they care one way or another. Saudi money? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-11 00:43 |
| #2 Eurabia rides again. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-10-11 00:32 |
| #1 I don't recall they ever condemned kassams falling into Israel. Corect me if I am wrong. Already... Pox be on the fuckin belgian waffles and yuro dhimmis! There. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-11 00:07 |