Robel
2003-11-02 18:58:59 UTC
En ny poll viser at europeerne nå ser på Israel som
den største trusselen mot freden i verden. Som
vanlig fører ikke dette til israelsk selvransakelse,
men bare til anklager mot alle andre.
Israel blir stadig mer fanatisk. Nå har de definert
all kritikk av staten Israels brutale og hensynsløse
framferd mot palestinerne som anti-semittisme,
fordi de "bare forsvarer Israels overlevelse".
En tør da å antyde at deres overlevelse defineres
av dem selv som større og større ødeleggelser
og tyveri av palestinsk eiendom, flere og flere
drap, stadig brutalere overgrep - mao. en politikk
som nettopp _ikke_ har sikret Israel noen fred, og
som aldri kan sikre _noe folk_ fred med sine naboer.
Det er dette europeerne reagerer mot, samt at en slik
politikk ubetinget støttes av Bush og hans krigshauker,
samt at Israel har atomvåpen og andre MØ-våpen, og
viser hensynsløs vilje til å bruke alle midler mot fiender
de selv har skaffet seg uten å tenke på de langsiktige
konsekvensene -- som kan bli farligere og farligere
jo lenger denne striden om land og borett pågår.
Det er ingen sensasjon og ingen antisemittisme at
den vanlige europeer nå ser på dette som farlig,
og som at israelerne har ansvaret for utviklingen.
Det var ikke palestinsk terror som stoppet "Oslo",
men israelsk bosetting i de okkuperte områdene,
hvorved det palestinske folk så at det ikke fantes
israelsk vilje til å følge opp og innfri avtalen.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4787935-102275,00.html
Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday November 2, 2003
The Observer
Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace, ahead of
North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, by an unpublished European
Commission poll of 7,500 Europeans, sparking an international
row.
The survey, conducted in October, of 500 people from each of the
EU's member nations included a list of 15 countries with the
question, 'tell me if in your opinion it presents or not a threat
to peace in the world'. Israel was reportedly picked by 59
per cent of those interviewed.
The leaking of the results of the poll to El Pais and the International
Herald Tribune has sparked a bitter row, with a major Jewish human
rights and lobbying group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, demanding
that the EU be excluded from the Israel-Palestinian peace process
and accusing Europe of suffering the worst outbreak of
'anti-semitism' since World War Two.
The results appear to be a mark of the widespread disapproval in
Europe of the tactics employed by the government of Ariel Sharon
during the present intifada.
Israeli Ministers and spokesman have also been at pains recently to
insist that a definition of modern 'anti-semitism' should include
criticism of the way the state of Israel chooses to protect itself,
defining that criticism as an overt attack on Israel's survival.
Members of the Sharon government have bridled at the efforts of
Tony Blair and UK officials to try to mediate between the two sides.
At one stage journalists were briefed that Israel regarded the Foreign
Office as having an 'Arabist' bias.
Reacting to the poll, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which claims
400,000 members in the US alone, has begun ordering a petition
to condemn the European Commission and demand the EU no
longer be represented in the so-called Quartet group trying to
mediate an end to violence between Israel and Palestine.
The poll also comes against a background of an increase in anti-
semitic attacks in Europe in the past year, although the evidence
in countries such as France suggests that many are being
committed by young Islamists.
'This poll is an indication that Europeans have bought in, "hook,
line and sinker", to the vilification and demonisation campaign
directed against the state of Israel and her supporters by European
leaders and media,' said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesenthal
Centre's founder.
'This shocking result that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace,
bigger than North Korea and Iran, defies logic and is a racist flight
of fantasy that only shows that anti-semitism is deeply embedded
within European society, more then at any other period since the
end of the war,' he added.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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r L
den største trusselen mot freden i verden. Som
vanlig fører ikke dette til israelsk selvransakelse,
men bare til anklager mot alle andre.
Israel blir stadig mer fanatisk. Nå har de definert
all kritikk av staten Israels brutale og hensynsløse
framferd mot palestinerne som anti-semittisme,
fordi de "bare forsvarer Israels overlevelse".
En tør da å antyde at deres overlevelse defineres
av dem selv som større og større ødeleggelser
og tyveri av palestinsk eiendom, flere og flere
drap, stadig brutalere overgrep - mao. en politikk
som nettopp _ikke_ har sikret Israel noen fred, og
som aldri kan sikre _noe folk_ fred med sine naboer.
Det er dette europeerne reagerer mot, samt at en slik
politikk ubetinget støttes av Bush og hans krigshauker,
samt at Israel har atomvåpen og andre MØ-våpen, og
viser hensynsløs vilje til å bruke alle midler mot fiender
de selv har skaffet seg uten å tenke på de langsiktige
konsekvensene -- som kan bli farligere og farligere
jo lenger denne striden om land og borett pågår.
Det er ingen sensasjon og ingen antisemittisme at
den vanlige europeer nå ser på dette som farlig,
og som at israelerne har ansvaret for utviklingen.
Det var ikke palestinsk terror som stoppet "Oslo",
men israelsk bosetting i de okkuperte områdene,
hvorved det palestinske folk så at det ikke fantes
israelsk vilje til å følge opp og innfri avtalen.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4787935-102275,00.html
Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday November 2, 2003
The Observer
Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace, ahead of
North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, by an unpublished European
Commission poll of 7,500 Europeans, sparking an international
row.
The survey, conducted in October, of 500 people from each of the
EU's member nations included a list of 15 countries with the
question, 'tell me if in your opinion it presents or not a threat
to peace in the world'. Israel was reportedly picked by 59
per cent of those interviewed.
The leaking of the results of the poll to El Pais and the International
Herald Tribune has sparked a bitter row, with a major Jewish human
rights and lobbying group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, demanding
that the EU be excluded from the Israel-Palestinian peace process
and accusing Europe of suffering the worst outbreak of
'anti-semitism' since World War Two.
The results appear to be a mark of the widespread disapproval in
Europe of the tactics employed by the government of Ariel Sharon
during the present intifada.
Israeli Ministers and spokesman have also been at pains recently to
insist that a definition of modern 'anti-semitism' should include
criticism of the way the state of Israel chooses to protect itself,
defining that criticism as an overt attack on Israel's survival.
Members of the Sharon government have bridled at the efforts of
Tony Blair and UK officials to try to mediate between the two sides.
At one stage journalists were briefed that Israel regarded the Foreign
Office as having an 'Arabist' bias.
Reacting to the poll, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which claims
400,000 members in the US alone, has begun ordering a petition
to condemn the European Commission and demand the EU no
longer be represented in the so-called Quartet group trying to
mediate an end to violence between Israel and Palestine.
The poll also comes against a background of an increase in anti-
semitic attacks in Europe in the past year, although the evidence
in countries such as France suggests that many are being
committed by young Islamists.
'This poll is an indication that Europeans have bought in, "hook,
line and sinker", to the vilification and demonisation campaign
directed against the state of Israel and her supporters by European
leaders and media,' said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesenthal
Centre's founder.
'This shocking result that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace,
bigger than North Korea and Iran, defies logic and is a racist flight
of fantasy that only shows that anti-semitism is deeply embedded
within European society, more then at any other period since the
end of the war,' he added.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
--
r L