EU parasites to put patent leather loafer, Birkenstock, or the like, on Israel's throat beginning in 2014. Unlike the right, the left has long term goals and sticks to them

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7/18/13, "EU v. Israel," Legal Insurrection, by David Gerstman, "Mideast Media Sampler, 7/18/13

1) The Union Strikes Back

The European Union (EU) has just released new regulations governing certain dealings with Israel. Starting in 2014, the EU (as a unit, individual states are not governed by these guidelines) will prohibit any dealings with private Israeli entities that live or operate in Judea and Samaria, what is otherwise known as the West Bank. The idea is to make a distinction to show Europe’s seriousness about considering Israel’s “occupation” to be in violation of international law....

The Washington Post reported:

The Europeans seem ready to give Israel a little shove, which could either bring Israel back to the table or backfire. Many Israeli officials say the blame for the impasse on negotiations lies not with them but with a dysfunctional, fractured Palestinian leadership that refuses even to talk without preconditions.

This is typical reporter-speak, using a qualification to obscure a truth. Yes, “many Israeli officials say,” but what they’re saying is the truth, as documented by the Washington Post’s own Jackson Diehl.

The New York Times gives more space to the pro-EU voices, but quotes an anonymous Israeli, who, as we show later on, is exactly correct.:

But a senior Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity surrounding Mr. Kerry’s diplomatic initiative, said Tuesday night that the Europeans were “intentionally or inadvertently undermining” the active American engagement in the peace process that they had been calling for for years.

“Why would any Palestinian leader agree to re-engage if they can get what they want without negotiating?” the official said. “Why enter the give and take of negotiations when you can just take what is offered by international bodies?”...

Back in late 1995, the LA Times reported:

In the last seven weeks Israel has handed over six West Bank towns and more than 400 villages to the Palestinian Authority. The authority now controls about 90% of the West Bank’s more than 1 million Arabs, and about one-third of the land in the Delaware-size territory.

For nearly 20 years, the occupation has been over. Subsequent to Israel’s relinquishing political control of most Palestinians the Palestinians have twice refused to make final deals with Israel. (In 2000-1 it was Yasser Arafat who wouldn’t make a deal with Israeli PM Ehud Barak and in 2008 it was Mahmoud Abbas who wouldn’t response to Israeli PM Ehud Olmert’s offer.) In 2000 Arafat launched a terror war against Israel in contravention of the very premises of the peace process and the PLO’s supposed rehabilitation from being a terrorist organization. Yet the Palestinian refusal to deal in good faith prompted no comparable action by the EU. Why not?

In fact the European guidelines play into the hands of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who wrote two years ago in the New York Times:

Palestine’s admission to the United Nations would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice.

That was a clear declaration that he had no interest in negotiating with Israel, preferring instead, to rely on international organization to pressure Israel into giving him all he wants. Abbas showed his contempt for the peace process, and Europe has just provided support for his strategy. ...

The timing of this announcement is also beyond bizarre. The guidelines state:

These guidelines do not cover EU support in the form of grants, prizes or financial instruments awarded to Palestinian entities or to their activities in the territories referred to in point 2, nor any eligibility conditions set up for this purpose. In particular, they do not cover any agreements between the EU, on the one hand, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization or the Palestinian Authority, on the other hand."...

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"TrooperJohnSmith | July 18, 2013 at 8:34 am
 

Peel back that hard, outer shell of European tolerance, continental sophistication and chic, and there are hard core anti-Semites embedded deeply in the fabric of society. Hell, it’s in their DNA, that willingness to be complicit in any roundup or pogrom.

Only the Danes told the Nazis to go to hell and protected Jews as best they could. The rest of Europe… guilty. Still.

Enjoy your lives under the modern Caliphate."

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Comment: The left has long term goals. They don't fret about whether they should compromise. They have no opposition anyway. There's literally no one sitting on the other side (the right) with firmly held views on a different set of long term goals.