FM: EU vote encourages PA to avoid fighting terror

[Gimel]

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday that this week's European vote supporting a UN General Assembly resolution against the separation fence encourages the Palestinians to continue avoiding their obligation to fight terrorism.

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"The EU should be engaged in promoting Palestinian reform in Gaza and
Ramallah, not Palestinian manipulation in the UN," the foreign minister said, adding that Europe's vote "encourages the Palestinians to continue their evasion of responsibility" on fighting terror.

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Earlier Thursday, an Israeli official said Israel had decided to give Solana an especially "difficult and cold reception" during his visit to Tel Aviv.


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Israel made clear to senior European officials at United Nations headquarters Wednesday that "it will be very difficult in the future to include the EU as a party in efforts to advance the peace process," after the European Union joined the sweeping majority that passed a General Assembly resolution condemning the West Bank separation fence.

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[Classical_Liberal]

1. Since I believe terrorism is occurring because of Israeli theft of land

and the fact that Palestinians aren't represented in Israeli government and have no voice, I'd wipe my ass with this claim. The fact of the matter is they can't vote so they can't make people like Sharon pay for the theft of their land. They can't force a political solutions so there is violence. Directing it at innocence is wrong, but killing their authoritarian occupiers isn't. The more the EU and UN fight on their behalf the less need their will be for Violence. The violence could also be ended by giving those people citizenship. American killed British soldiers, and made war with Britian because we weren't represented in Parliament. The slogan was "no taxation without representation" If I can't vote to get a representative government, I will overthrow the present one. That is all there is to it.