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2023-08-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Departing EU envoy: I won’t accuse Israel of apartheid, but it’s worthy of discussion
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 Fashionably pro-Palestinian, which means he is equally fashionably an Israel-hater. Also, despite his fancy PhD and professing credentials, his stunt hang-gliding on a Gaza beach went counter to the propaganda line he was trying to sell. Much more at the link. [IsraelTimes] In farewell interview, ambassador to Paleostinians laments Abbas’s failure to hold elections, suggests mail-in ballot as solution to Israeli opposition to voting in East Jerusalem.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
’s Ambassador to the Paleostinians Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff soared off into retirement in style, conducting what he said was the first-ever paraglide over the Gazoo
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip last month.
"Once you have a free Paleostine, a free Gaza, you can do exactly the same thing, and that’s the reason why I did this — to show you the way forward if you work for it," said Kuhn von Burgsdorff, who formally concluded three decades as a European diplomat on Tuesday.
His stunt struck a nerve in Israel, though, whose Foreign Ministry branded it a "provocative action."
"The European diplomat forgot a long time ago that he represents the EU and its member states," said a Foreign Ministry spokesperson. "He continues to represent the Paleostinian narrative and to serve as a propaganda tool for terror organizations controlling Gaza."
As the statement hinted, Israel sparred with Kuhn von Burgsdorff throughout his three-and-a-half-year tenure leading the EU mission in East Jerusalem, as the 65-year-old German-born diplomat regularly used his platform to highlight the Paleostinian plight.
He has gone further in his criticism of Israel than just about any Western representative, including accusing the IDF last month of using disproportionate force against Paleostinians during a counter-terror raid in the Jenin refugee camp. At a May event hosted by his mission to mark Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Day, he told the hundreds in attendance that "growing concern about what more and more people around the world see as the crime of apartheid will keep the unresolved Paleostinian cause on the international agenda."
Kuhn von Burgsdorff avoided saying whether he thinks the politically charged term accurately describes the reality in the West Bank, but in a wide-ranging interview with The Times of Israel, he did insist that "one should not suppress the discussion of whether what we’re seeing on the ground constitutes the crime of apartheid."
Nor did the EU ambassador shy away from repeatedly calling out the Paleostinian Authority either, and when its president, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
, took steps to shrink the space of his political opponents, civil society groups and journalists, Kuhn von Burgsdorff was among the first to speak out and even pay solidarity visits to those targeted by the PA.
In last week’s interview, Kuhn von Burgsdorff expressed particular disappointment over Abbas’s refusal to hold presidential elections since he was elected to a four-year term in 2005. The PA president has declined to move forward without an expressed Israeli commitment to allow balloting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, but the EU envoy dismissed Ramallah’s justification as insufficient and presented a path for Ramallah to move ahead with a vote in order "to regain [its] democratic legitimacy."
’Mission far from accomplished’
The veteran diplomat’s candor was manifest during his stint in East Jerusalem, where he served as the Western world’s de facto top representative to the Paleostinians following the severing of US-Paleostinian ties that took place during Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s presidency. US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing ...
moved to restore relations with the PA, but his failure to follow through on several campaign promises to roll back measures taken by his predecessor has left Ramallah utterly disillusioned by Washington.
Kuhn von Burgsdorff sought to fill that vacuum, meeting regularly with Paleostinian leaders, holding weekly calls with PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, and leading delegations of dozens of diplomats on tours to various flashpoints in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. US officials often tagged along, but the spotlight was reserved for Kuhn von Burgsdorff, who used it to repeatedly implore Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to take steps toward reconciliation.
But as he acknowledged during his Europe Day address, the EU ambassador is leaving his post "with a sense of mission far from accomplished."
"Over the period of my assignment, I could see a deterioration in all statistical databases — whether it be settlement expansion, settler violence, demolitions, evictions or the excessive use of lethal force against civilians and other Paleostinians," Kuhn von Burgsdorff said in the interview. "On all accounts, we saw a steep rise and continued violations of Paleostinian rights."
"We also saw a steep rise in victims on the Israeli side because of violence perpetrated by Paleostinians — very often in direct Dire Revenge because of the aforementioned factors. This spill of violence is being exacerbated by this combination of factors," he added.
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