Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Fri Sep 11, 2015, 01:31 AM Sep 2015

PM: EU vote to label Israel settlement products echoes Nazi era

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-eu-vote-to-label-israel-settlement-products-echoes-nazi-era/

“It is simply a distortion of justice and of logic and I think that it also hurts peace; it does not advance peace,” he said in a statement. “The root of the conflict is not the territories, and the root of the conflict is not the settlements. We have historical memory of what happened when Europe labelled Jewish products.”

Is there anything the government of Israel won't compare to the Holocaust? They're playing that card about once per week lately. Iran is Nazi Germany last week. Now the EU is Nazi Germany for labeling goods made in the illegal settlements.

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PM: EU vote to label Israel settlement products echoes Nazi era (Original Post) geek tragedy Sep 2015 OP

The settlements are not "the Jews". Little Tich Sep 2015 #1

+1 GitRDun Sep 2015 #2

It's a strain of "criticizing Israel is antisemitic" geek tragedy Sep 2015 #5

If Netanyahu didn't use Holocaust guilt then what other mechanism would he employ? R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2015 #3

She seems to be telling Europe that they might as well BDS. geek tragedy Sep 2015 #4

Yes, that's what struck me about it TubbersUK Sep 2015 #6

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)

1. The settlements are not "the Jews".

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 01:43 AM

Sep 2015

The world wants two states even if Netanyahu doesn't.

GitRDun

(1,846 posts)

2. +1

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 01:50 AM

Sep 2015

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

5. It's a strain of "criticizing Israel is antisemitic"

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 02:19 AM

Sep 2015

It's all they have.

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

3. If Netanyahu didn't use Holocaust guilt then what other mechanism would he employ?

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 02:07 AM

Sep 2015

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovly said Israel would not accept “discrimination” between goods produced in different parts of its territory.

What you call "your territory" is actually stolen West Bank land.

“Labeling of products amounts to a boycott,” she said, hours after the European vote.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovly said Israel would not accept “discrimination” between goods produced in different parts of its territory.

Get used to it. More is to come.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

4. She seems to be telling Europe that they might as well BDS.

Reply to R. Daneel Olivaw (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 02:09 AM

Sep 2015

Not smart diplomacy, but it's been a few decades since the Israelis believed in the concept of diplomacy.

TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)

6. Yes, that's what struck me about it

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 04:08 AM

Sep 2015

Her statement serves to confirm the need for the action she's criticising.

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