EU Protests To Netanyahu Over Planned Wave Of Settlement Construction

[Purveyor]

The European Union’s ambassador to Israel lodged a protest Sunday over the decision to the build 1,400 new housing units in West Bank settlements, which was announced as Israel prepares to release a third group of Palestinian prisoners Monday night.

It is unclear if Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen’s protest to the Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry will be also be accompanied by EU action against Israel.

An Israeli official and a European diplomat said Faaborg-Andersen called Eran Lerman, Israel’s National Security Council official in charge of foreign policy, and expressed “deep concern” over the plan for a new wave of construction. He approached Foreign Ministry officials with the same concern. At the same time, the British ambassador in Israel, Matthew Gould, conveyed an identical message in talks with senior Israeli Foreign Ministry officials.

A week ago, Haaretz disclosed that the ambassadors from Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy had met with the acting director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Nissim Ben-Sheetrit, and demanded that Israel not announce new construction in West Bank settlements to follow the release of the Palestinian prisoners. The ambassadors warned that if the peace process collapsed in the wake of a new announcement of settlement construction, the EU would place the blame on Israel.

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/keeping-track-of-the-peace-process/.premium-1.566094

[oberliner]

1. Are you paying for Ha'aretz Premium?

If not, how are you getting these articles?

[Purveyor]

2. NO. They pay me to post them...remember?

[oberliner]

3. Huh?

When I click on the link all I get is the first few lines and information about signing up for premium (i.e. paying).

Is there a way to get the articles without doing so?

[Purveyor]

4. You know there is so quit playing your silly fucking games. eom

[oberliner]

5. What do you mean?

What is the way to get the articles? Do you mean by doing a trial subscription? I don't understand the swearing and the hostility.

[Purveyor]

6. Bye. The "King" needs some company in my ignore room.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. .

You misspelled "Jester."

[King_David]

8. Why can you not just tell him?

I do not get this ignoring everyone you disagree with.

Apparently of you Google the first few lines of the article it shows up in a blog where you can read the article ...it never worked for me though...

[Violet_Crumble]

18. Yr not 'everyone' Purveyor and I have disagreed and they didn't put me on ignore...

Also, was it my imagination or were you only recently suggesting someone put you on ignore? It's just that once someone does it you seem to get very upset about it.

[King_David]

20. Actually not upset,

Just do not get the point of it.

[Violet_Crumble]

21. You don't need to get the point of the ignore function...

If you really don't get the point of it, you could always post in ATA and ask the admin why they've included the functionality.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

9. "the EU would place the blame on Israel."

Then what? Will they curl up in a ball then whimper in political correct fear of being labeled anti-Semites?

[King_David]

10. Well Europe has that burden to bear,

For many many many years to come.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

11. Really? Which ones? England? France? Belgium? Norway? Sweden? Ireland?

Finland, Iceland? Scotland? Switzerland?


But you are correct, dave. For every EU country that criticizes Israel for human rights violations there will be an army of asshole-apologists screaming bigotry because Holocaust, Holocaust insert accusation of the day.

And it will probably work in some quarters.


Not forever.

[King_David]

12. Just about all of Europe at one time or another,

Yes.

Especially since they are 'United' now, unless your Greece then they may just drop you like a hot potato.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. I'm sure that must make some Israeli apartheidist very happy.

But if Israel treats the Palestinians as the Europeans treated the Jews then in for a penny in for a pound.

There's not much to accusations at that point. Well there is if one is a hypocrite.

[King_David]

14. 'Israel treats the Palestinians as the Europeans treated the Jews'

I will not comment on a post that is against DU rules. (and is offensive bigoted garbage)

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. I believe that you need to go on ignore for a while.

Bye bye.

[King_David]

17. Cheers and good luck with your obvious concerted

effort by a group that wants an echo chamber here on DU IP.

I embrace your Ignore, you will just be missing out on the most terriific and intellectually challenging posts in the forum.

Le Chaim to your clan's 'ignores'.

[Violet_Crumble]

19. There was nothing bigoted in that post, nor was it against the rules...

DU doesn't have rules, it has community standards. If you think a post is offensive you should alert on it.

Wasn't this the same DUer you accused of being anti-Semitic and homophobic a few days ago? If so, I totally understand why they've taken offense at yr approach to them...

[King_David]

22. 'Wasn't this the same DUer you accused of being anti-Semitic and homophobic a few days ago?'

Nope,

Can you find the offensive post I was referencing?

Well find the post and explain why I was wrong.

[Violet_Crumble]

23. Oh, it must have been another regular in this forum, then...

I don't understand yr question. What offensive post you were referencing? I was talking about the false accusations you've made frequently in this forum, not what you were replying to.

[King_David]

24. If it is false,

Show me where,find me the post and explain to me why it is 'false'.

Which post are you talking about?

If it is 'a few days ago' it must be easy for you to find,I am sure.

[Violet_Crumble]

25. You said it to Jefferson23. My mistake!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=55030

[King_David]

26. Clearly Jefferson23 is not a ProHamas type and nor do I believe him/her to be and nor does anyone

else.

I said : 'proHamas types hate both the Jews and the Homosexuals'

And if you followed the whole thread I was illustrating to Jefferson23 calling myself a Pro-Settler falsely would be equivelant to me calling someone else an antisemite/homophobe. Context is everything.

[Violet_Crumble]

27. Well, it's certainly not clear in that post where you accused Jefferson of being one...

You prefaced it by telling them they were hateful and then said 'Is that hate because I'm Jewish or because I'm gay ? ' and finished with the line about pro-Hamas types thinking like that.

[King_David]

28. Sorry reread my post I was editing as you replied,

''And if you followed the whole thread I was illustrating to Jefferson23 calling myself a Pro-Settler falsely would be equivalent to me calling someone else an antisemite/homophobe.

Context is everything.''

[King_David]

16. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=55081

[oberliner]

29. Sometimes they just disappear completely

Like what happened here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=55271

Posted in response to something that was then immediately removed without acknowledgement of error.

Bad form, indeed.

[King_David]

30. Very,

In fact look around the forums replies over the last week and there's multiple if not dozens or even a hundred of such illustrations of the post you described.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

31. You're right.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113453386

[Jefferson23]

32. Yep. n/t