Israel/Palestine
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Tuesday, 09 September 2014 11:00 By Bruno Jäntti, Truthout | Op-Ed
The dispossession of the Palestinian people has been and remains an internationalized endeavor. With the European Union as its largest trading partner and the United States as its largest backer militarily and politically, Israel has no reason to reconsider its denial of Palestinian self-determination.
Albeit both the EU and the United States have been and remain Israel's global patrons, the prospects for change toward Israel appear quite different in the EU than they do in the United States. Compared to the EU, the United States lags behind in terms of the level of knowledge of, and intensity of opposition to, Israel's conduct.
EU's Budding Reservations
The way the over half a billion EU citizens view Israel in general and its policies toward the Palestinians in particular is undergoing a historic transformation.
Already in 2003, when Israel had been attempting for more than three years to subdue the Second Intifada by carrying out repressive withering military operations in the occupied West Bank, a survey was conducted in the EU on which countries were perceived as threats to world peace. The European Commission poll spoke volumes: Sixty percent of the EU citizenry regarded Israel as the greatest threat to world peace.
The awareness of Israeli policies of occupation, apartheid, land-annexation and military aggression is at its all-time high within the EU. According to a YouGov poll, 62 percent of the British public say that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Only 12 percent of the British respondents were of the opinion that Israel is not guilty of war crimes.
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King_David
(14,851 posts)Nothing has changed for more than 2000yrs.
This is not a recent news story.
King_David
(14,851 posts)If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abbaeban167935.html#3Xt5i3PO1gpIiETR.99
4now
(1,596 posts)The world is starting to stand up to Israeli apartheid.
The U.S. is just a little behind but we are getting there.
End Israeli apartheid.
Boycott, Divest, Sanction.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/
Mao Shung
(55 posts)It is a long way to go from a liberal newspaper declaring European Opposition, to Europe forcing Israel to do anything. Such declarations have been popping up regularly for the past 50 years, with nothing coming of it.
shira
(30,109 posts)63% in Poland.
48% in Germany.
New Europe, same as the old WW2 Europe.
If you asked these same people "are you willing to spend $1 toward tactics aimed at getting Israel to change, they would answer 'no way; I don't feel that strongly about it.'"
Hence, such pols are meaningless.