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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
EU Plans Security Presence In PA
2005-10-03
The European Union plans to establish a security presence in the Gaza Strip. Egyptian officials said EU security forces would help impose control and prevent smuggling between the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. They said EU inspectors would also man the Palestinian Authority airport in the southern Gaza Strip as well as the sea port near Gaza City. On Sept. 29, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy discussed the EU presence with Egyptian leaders. Later, Douste-Blazy and his Egyptian counterpart, Ahmed Abu Al Gheit, said he expected Israel to approve the EU deployment. "We talked today with our French counterpart about the idea of getting help for security through a European presence on the ground," Abu Al Gheit said.
These guys are going to be shields for the Paleos. Only question is whether they're willing or unwilling -- if the French are involved, they're willing shields. And they'll make it difficult for the Israelis to thump Hamas, without ever managing to stop Hamas themselves.
Posted by:Fred

#13  #3 .com - ROFLMAO! :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-10-03 16:29  

#12  
EU security forces would help impose control and prevent smuggling between the Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*gasp*

*snort*

must.breathe.must.breathe.

*snicker*

That's a good one. I had no idea Egyptians had such a sense of humor. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-10-03 16:25  

#11  Ohh, are they going to be as effective as they are in Iraq?
Posted by: anonymous2u   2005-10-03 15:34  

#10  They'll call themselves "The Touchables"...
Posted by: tu3031   2005-10-03 13:08  

#9  LH, well you're probably right. I don't expect them to do anything useful there, like stop arms smuggling or AQ insertion, but, they probably beat a pink flamingo or a lawn ornament.
Posted by: AlanC   2005-10-03 12:05  

#8  if the EU guys are at the airport, and the border crossing to Egypt, this shouldnt present a problem. Those are not typically places where Hamas figures hide out and got shot by Israelis.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2005-10-03 11:45  

#7  "Here come the hostages!"
Posted by: mojo   2005-10-03 10:51  

#6  The Euros better think carefully about the implications of a defeat together with their Hamas brothers in arms at the hands of the IDF.
Posted by: Sloper Craigum5785   2005-10-03 10:02  

#5  One day I read a posting of a French (1) reader of the MSM telling: "The EU should expel Israel from the occupied territories by force". By force. If that would have been a blog instead of printed paper I would have answered something in the line that all the military might the EU would be able to project (2) would come back covered in tar and feathers.

(1) one of those French moma-boys who used one of the multiple way-outs for moma-boys in order to not go to the army and could not tell which is the "right" end of a rifle

(2) I have tears in my eyes thinking in
our Aris Katzaris, only soldier the mighty EU would be able to send, dying in a foreign land with neither a comrade or a Rantburger to hold his hand.
Posted by: JFM   2005-10-03 07:53  

#4  Easy guys, this is an EU plan...ya gotta figure at least 4 - 5 years before they agree on what cologne to wear to the festivities, no less pack and leave.
Posted by: AlanC   2005-10-03 07:30  

#3  Sheesh. This is so stupid it requires the Cosmic Cockup setting just to measure it. Stuck on Stupid on a global scale. The EUniks are truly an amazing bunch of fuckwits. Easily the most dogged determined inane impediment to any constructive act ever conceived and convened.

Where they might be needed, they never go. Where they can fuck shit up, Jacquie on the spot.

If it were the EU leaders themselves, going on patrol, it would be comic. Since it's regular people, being ordered in, it's tragic. Ah, well, ain't no fixin' stupid. Go in, get in the way, you die, fools. Fuck it. What're they gonna do, pass more pointless UN resolutions and spout anti-Israeli rhetoric?
Posted by: .com   2005-10-03 02:51  

#2  Israel needs to make it clear to these EUniks that they go into Gaza at their own peril. Attacks on Israel through Gaza will be met with counterbattery fire and the EUniks will be in the line of fire if they hang around the wrong places.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-10-03 01:31  

#1  I suggest the EU might want to discuss this with Israel. Egypt and the PA can't assure anyones saftey. Israel can and will simply kill them is they become Hamas enablers. Israel could care less.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2005-10-03 00:36  

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