Israel/Palestine

Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:16 PM Dec 2014

Netanyahu: Hypocritical Europeans Have 'Learned Nothing' From Holocaust

Attila Somfalvi
Published: 12.17.14, 18:55

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Europeans appeared to have learned nothing from the Holocaust, condemning the European Union's decision to remove Hamas from its terror list.

"In Luxemburg the European court removed Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations, Hamas that has committed countless war crimes and countless terror acts," Netanyahu's office quoted him as saying.

He went on to say that "It seems that too many in Europe, on whose soil six million Jews were slaughtered, have learned nothing."

"But we in Israel, we've learned. We'll continue to defend our people and our state against the forces of terror and tyranny and hypocrisy," he said at the start of a meeting with US Republican Senator-elect Joni Ernst.

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Netanyahu: Hypocritical Europeans Have 'Learned Nothing' From Holocaust (Original Post) Purveyor Dec 2014 OP

another snoozer from netanyahu the land grabber. nt msongs Dec 2014 #1

the EU court just handed bibi a win Mosby Dec 2014 #2

"But we in Israel, we've learned." R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2014 #3

Never too late to rob those graves, is it? Scootaloo Dec 2014 #4

Some serious irony in that statement. bemildred Dec 2014 #5

Always using the Holocaust martyr s memory mylye2222 Dec 2014 #6

msongs

(67,368 posts)

1. another snoozer from netanyahu the land grabber. nt

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:33 PM

Dec 2014

Mosby

(16,263 posts)

2. the EU court just handed bibi a win

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:47 PM

Dec 2014

Wtf?

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

3. "But we in Israel, we've learned."

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 03:20 PM

Dec 2014

Yes, Israel has definitely learned how to act like the old colonial powers yet still play the victim card.

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

4. Never too late to rob those graves, is it?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:21 PM

Dec 2014

The court's ruling is apparently procedural, and states that the initial placement of Hamas on the list in 2001 was done without substantial enough evidence. Parties are given four months to appeal (which undoubtedly, someone will) during which time, hamas will still be treated by the EU as being on the list - frozen assets, all that stuff. Undoubtedly an appeal will succeed, and with substantive evidence in support of the claim of Hamas being a terror organization, it will be returned to the list.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

5. Some serious irony in that statement.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:27 PM

Dec 2014

On maybe the lesson the EU learned is not the same one Bibi learned.

mylye2222

(2,992 posts)

6. Always using the Holocaust martyr s memory

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 07:21 PM

Dec 2014

to justify their own war crime.

Its an insult to the milions ones who perished in the camps.

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