Lieberman: EU's Ashton doesn't understand world's problems

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*Lieberman's Israeli policy, so misunderstood.

Foreign minister blasts EU foreign policy chief for expressing concern over Israel's planned appropriation of land in the West Bank.


By Barak Ravid | Apr. 18, 2014

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday, after Ashton released a statement in which she condemned Monday's shooting attack near Hebron as well as expressed concern over Israel's plan to appropriate land and expand settlements in the West Bank.

Lieberman said that Ashton's criticism of the planned declaration of 984 dunams (about 250 acres) in Gush Etzion as state land – a move announced last week Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon – shows that the EU does not understand what the real problems in the world are.

"When the entire world is trying to solve the crisis in Ukraine, when in Syria innocent people are slaughtered every day, when in Iraq the mass bombings persist – the EU's foreign minister, Catherine Ashton, found the real danger to world peace," Lieberman wrote on his Facebook page. Ashton, he said, "released a statement calling on Israel to refrain from actions against the Palestinians, referring to the announcement of nearly 1,000 dunams in Gush Etzion as state land and to the [return of settlers] to the 'House of Peace' in Hebron."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.586280

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1. further:

The 'House of Peace,' better known as the House of Contention, is a four-story building in the West Bank city of Hebron, which was recently repopulated by three Jewish families after the Supreme Court ruled that the settlers have legally purchased the property.

"Fortunately," Lieberman concluded, "the EU knows how to identify the world's critical problem and handle them swiftly and with resolve."

Earlier on Friday Ashton released a statement condemning the shooting near Hebron where an Israeli citizen, Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrahi, was killed, and called for an immediate cessation of all violence. Ashton added that she is greatly concerned by Israel's recent appropriation of lands in the West Bank and by Israel's go-ahead for a new settlement in Hebron, referring to the House of Contention.

Ashton noted that the demolishing of Palestinian property in Area C and in East Jerusalem is continuing, "with resulting displacement of vulnerable populations."

Ashton also deplored Israel's confiscation of EU humanitarian assistance to "vulnerable civilians" in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim, and called on Israel to reverse the decision.

"The High Representative calls on the parties to show utmost restraint and responsibility in order not to jeopardize the current negotiation process, and to refrain from any steps which could undermine trust and threaten these talks," she added.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.586280

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2. Ah yes, the "other people do bad things too" argument

Surely the mark of a keen intellect.

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3. There is a list some where, stating all the truly horrific events around the world and once

these are dealt with..then the world can turn their attention to Israel's human rights
violations...all that annexed land. Pfft, look over there>>>>>>>>>>, for now.

I think that is pretty much the logic.

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4. Yeah, more cognitive disconnect.

If you think about it now, was it Putin or Merkel that was not living in the real world?