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| East Jerusalem not part of Israel: European MP |
| 2009-12-08 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as a national capital, is "not part of Israel," Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said Monday ahead of a meeting with his EU counterparts. "We all recognize, in discussions, that east Jerusalem is occupied, and if it is occupied then it is not part of Israel," Asselborn told reporters as he arrived for the talks in Brussels. "I don't understand how Israel fails to recognize that Palestine is composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem," he added, pleading for Europe and the US to use "clear language" when pronouncing on the issue. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 FREEREPUBLIC > EU: MAKE JERUSALEM A JOINT CAPITAL. Wehell, the most obvious or glaring solution is the one nobody is happy with. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-08 18:20 |
| #10 Damfino, Mitch. But, Dar is Dar---the next explosion is only a matter of time. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-08 13:57 |
| #9 East Jerusalem has never been recognized as a part of Jordan or the West Bank anyway. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-12-08 12:31 |
| #8 Grom, what's the deal with this Tom Gross article? He makes it sound like the West Bank is on its way to becoming a de facto dependency of Israel's. Are the checkpoints really that sparse now? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-12-08 10:24 |
| #7 compared to 20 years ago or even 10 years ago this article is interesting because it ( al arabiya) actually implicitly recognizes Israel's right to exist within their disagreement of the boundaries |
| Posted by: lord garth 2009-12-08 09:36 |
| #6 Isn't possession 9/10ths of the law anyway? Either way, you don't like it, come and take it fuckhole. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-12-08 07:48 |
| #5 Tell it to King David. My daddy used to tell me: A Law that cant be enforced is no Law. And as King Henry once said of the Vexin to Eleanor of Acquitain in France..."its got my troops all over it." Check into who owns the Little Big Horn today. Stay at a Howard Johnsons and take pictures. |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-08 05:35 |
| #4 I don't understand A clear case of lead deficiency. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-08 04:00 |
| #3 You and who's army sez so, Luxembourg? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-12-08 01:08 |
| #2 Nah. Either France or Switzerland, I think... |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-12-08 01:00 |
| #1 Therefore Luxembourg is a part of Russia. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-12-08 00:16 |