'Europe aiming to de-legitimize settlements'

[Jefferson23]

Israeli officials say EU formulating policy to undermine settlement enterprise; rightwing officials: 'Europe continuing tradition of profiling.'

Itay Blumenthal

"Europe wants to methodically accumulate a policy, using bureaucratic steps, with the aim of de-legitimizing the settlements," Israeli officials told Ynet on Tuesday night, after European diplomats said the EU was considering "blacklisting" settlers convicted of crimes.

"Europe is continuing its tradition of profiling," said the deputy director-general of the Judea and Samaria council, Yigal Dilmoni.


"Radical Islam is continuing to spread across the world and throughout Europe. Islamic terrorists are entering the enlightened continent freely and threatening its citizens daily, but 'of course' the most important subject is Jews and Zionism," Dilmoni argued.

He added: "The construction in Judea and Samaria is a right and an obligation of the Jewish people. It is best the Europeans deal with their own problem and not disrupt the sensitive status quo in existence."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4580753,00.html

[sadoldgirl]

1. Great! Now it is called Judea and Samaria

which implies that it is Israeli territory.

Why did I think of it as an occupied territory called the Westbank? Somewhere I must have missed the part of history
after 1947.

[Israeli]

8. The religious Right wing and ...

....the settlers have always called it Judea and Samaria.

The Left calls it The Wild West Bank .....with reference to cowboys and indians, due to most of our messianic madmen that populate it having their roots in America .

[BillZBubb]

2. Typical Israeli crap.

It isn't profiling to keep out criminals. And ALL the settlers are criminals.

The Israeli construction in the West Bank is THEFT.

[oberliner]

4. Not at all typical

Most Israelis do not think this way by any means.

[Scootaloo]

6. The Yesha stands as the representative body of the Settlers at large for the israeli government

So for those several hundred thousand squatters, yes, he speaks for them, quite literally. And the rest of Israel doesn't seem in any hurry to get those squatters out of Palestine, so one can't assume they're exactly opposed, themselves. i mean after all, they keep electing government after government that expands settlements further and further.

At some point, Oberliner, you're going to need to shed your rosy spectacles. I think you would have figured this out when your predictions for a Kadima landslide were laughably thwarted. Oslo is dead. Geneva never was. Israel is not liberal, and the Palestinian situation is getting worse. You're twenty years behind on things, Oberliner.

[oberliner]

14. Exactly

Most Israelis oppose the settlements. Look at any survey taken on the subject over the last twenty years.

This is a movement that is composed primarily of the religious right.

[BillZBubb]

7. I am shocked you cannot see the obvious.

Most Israelis keep electing governments that expand the settlements. What is it going to take to open your eyes?

[oberliner]

15. No they don't

I don't think you have a good understanding of how Israeli electoral politics works.

[oberliner]

3. "the deputy director-general of the Judea and Samaria council"

That's the part that should be bolded.

"Far right wing person says far right wing things"

[azurnoir]

10. can you explain IDF's Judea and Samaria Division?

naming a military division can seem a government stamp of approval

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Division

[oberliner]

12. Judea and Samaria Area District is also one of Israeli administrative districts, operating in Area C

of the West Bank, but excluding East Jerusalem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Area

[azurnoir]

16. It operates in the entire West Bank

officially in Area B and when it sees fit in Area A

[azurnoir]

11. also the civil adminisreation or COGAT

Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria

he Civil Administration is part of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories disposition and constitutes the body responsible for implementation of government policy in Judea and Samaria and bettering these areas in civil matters in accordance with the guidelines set by the government and in coordination with ministries, the IDF and the security forces. As such, the Civil Administration is an integral part of IDF and Central Command operations on a routine and emergency basis.

http://www.cogat.idf.il/1279-en/Cogat.aspx

[oberliner]

13. See Wikipedia entry above

Same information.

[Scootaloo]

5. Dilmoni has his head uup his ass.

So busy with his autocoprophagia that he can't fathom that other people are able to walk and chew gun at the same time.

[Israeli]

9. Some can tho ....

Alan Duncan to condemn Israeli settlements in blistering speech

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/14/alan-duncan-to-condemn-israeli-settlements-in-blistering-speech

Wow !!

Settlers are not having a good week ....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eu-bans-israeli-dairy-products-made-occupied-west-bank-settlements-january-1469454