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AN EU DECISION to label goods from Jewish settlements is unlikely to damage Israel’s economy, but officials in the country fear that what they call the “anti-Semitic” move will encourage a boycott campaign against the country.
Israel harshly condemned the decision, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comparing it to Nazi-era practices and saying the EU “should be ashamed.”
“The labelling of products of the Jewish state by the European Union brings back dark memories,” the premier said as he wrapped up a visit to Washington.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, from the right-wing Jewish Home party and known for provocative statements, called the move “anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish,” adding that “European hypocrisy and hate against Israel have surpassed all limits.”
In anticipation of the move on Tuesday, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called it “disguised anti-Semitism”. The foreign ministry summoned the EU envoy to the country.
The EU has insisted it was only clarifying existing rules on the place of origin for goods that will go on sale in the 28-nation bloc, adding that it had nothing to do with a boycott, which it says it does not support.
It amounts to a set of guidelines for labelling products from settlements in the Palestinian territories and annexed east Jerusalem as well as the Golan Heights, all occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
The settlements, deemed illegal under international law, are one of the main stumbling block to peace efforts, as those in the West Bank and east Jerusalem are built on land Palestinians see as part of a future state.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation said the EU decision was a positive step but that it did not go far enough, calling for a ban on such commerce.
Limited economic effect
It is not the impact on trade that has alarmed Israel, experts say, though the European Union is Israel’s largest trade partner.
The goods in question account for only two to three percent of Israeli exports to the European Union, according to Israel’s ambassador to the EU, David Walzer.
He estimates their value at €187 million per year.
“In fact, it involves only the agricultural products, the wine, the cosmetic products which require an origin label,” said Ohad Cohen, head of external commerce at Israel’s economy ministry.
“Labelling will at most involve $50 million in exports.”
Most manufacturing exports from the settlements involve components or parts later assembled into finished products, making them difficult to trace.
Settlements also export farm goods, including dates, fruit and vegetables, along with wine from the Golan and cosmetics from the Dead Sea.
If required, Israel seems capable of finding new markets.
Dan Catarivas, head of international relations at the Manufacturers Association of Israel, said it was unfortunate that politicians were equating labelling with a boycott.
“We have to distinguish between the labelling that is imposed on us by the European Union and a boycott, which is completely unacceptable,” he said.
Memories of SodaStream
Israel has been the target of a global boycott campaign aimed at ending its occupation, known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).
According to an Israeli parliamentary report, the campaign has not so far had a noticeable impact. Over the past nine years, exports have risen from $7.8 billion to $15.6 billion.
But officials are unnerved by any bid to mount a campaign that they see as attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state.
They saw SodaStream, which manufactures a device for making fizzy drinks at home, become embroiled in boycott calls and close a factory in a West Bank settlement and relocate to Israel.
Beyond that, the differentiation between Israel and its settlements — and its implications for the future — puts Israelis on edge.
“Behind the legal quibbles, there is a willingness on the part of the Brussels bureaucracy to influence the outcome of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which in any case does not fall within its jurisdiction,” foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said.
- © AFP 2015.
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Let me get this straight. Just because the EU demand packaging is done in a certain way, Israelis liken this to the Nazi treatment of Jewish people? Jesus Christ. The mind boggles.
Godwins law being acted out,.
The jews are so wrapped up in persecuting arabs and “annexing” (i.e. taking by force of arms) the land of arab farmers that they think they can play the Holocaust card to justify their constant violating of international law.
Yep – turns out that labelling something as being from where it’s actually from is anti Jewish…
Zionist jews constantly pull out the anti semitic card to bully anyone who condemns their appalling treatment of the Palestinians.
If you fart against Israel the Prime minister would say it was against Israel and the Holocaust survivors. They are playing the card way to much now.
Netanyahu saying they should be ashamed!! The irony of the war criminal.
Does it make a difference? Are the Jewish produce boycotters going to start buying produce from non occupied land? Are the Jewish supporters going to change their shopping habits? Will we have 2 sperate boycotts, one for all Jewish produce, one for occupied produce?
In typical EU style. A load of hot air over nothing!
@John Joseph – Which international law specifically are you referring to? Serious question.
I’d assume the Geneva Convention, Dude
I know some Israelis and have asked them how they justify the situation with Palestine. They respond saying that they have over 3000 rockets fired into their territory from Palestine each year. They firmly believe that they actually hold back whereas say, the E.U., would not tolerate such aggression from anyone. They go on to say that some Palestinians live peacefully within Israeli territory. On a related matter, they’re terrified of the new deal with Iran as Iran, they say, has formally declared a willingness to erase Israel from the face of the planet. Situation there is truly screwed-up.
@Todd – Geneva convention is not a law. Again I ask – which international law is being referred to?
Ah so you disregard that as well as basic human rights?
@The Dude … he Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are at the core of international humanitarian law, the body of international law that regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. Settlements are a breach of international law.
Keep bitching Israel, your getting on everyone’s nerves now and will turn the world against yourselves!
@Todd – I asked a simple question and simply pointed out that the GC is not an international binding law, in response to your reply. If you don’t know the answer – then just admit you don’t know, rather than deflecting or disparaging.
So the EU is going to label Jewish produce….it also seems it going to label produce from (Turkish occupied) northern Cyprus and oil supplied by the savages of ISIS NOT……perhaps Jews (and their produce) can wear a star of David,…. now where did I hear that before… oh! It’s definately anti Jewish…….
UN Charter says that you cannot acquire territory by force. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Six Day War and who started it, the West Bank is clearly territory acquired by force. All serious international lawyers regard both the UN Charter and the Geneva Convention as part of international law.
@the dude …. ha ha . Your some spoof. First GC wasn’t international law. Now it’s not international BINDING law. What a spoofer! BTW Israel sign the GC…
@ Stephen …the world has been against the (15 million) Jews for at least 2000 years (remember they killed Jesus!!!) So nothing new there, only this time they won’t be walking meekly into a concentration camp or gas chamber! Even if today it’s against “only” terrorists with knives and cars!
@ Ben that law only kicks in for Israel, doesn’t apply to Turkey (occuping Northern Cyprus) China (occupying Tibet) Russia has still Japanese terrority from WW2 as Poland has German terrority and a host of other places!! PS if Israel was giving up the west bank, it would be going to Jordan (who they won it from) similarly Gaza was Egyptian
@Ben McArthur – These so called ‘occupied territories’ are in fact disputed territories…but keep peddling that leftist anti Israel meme.
@Rehab – I think you’re the spoofer – so even Yet again I ask – which SPECIFIC international law has been broken by Israel? Can you reference it please so that I may learn something?
Btw terror groups such as Hamas are not covered by the GC.
Eh, The Dude, the Geneva Convention is law. It’s part of the body of international law called International Humanitarian Law/ the Law of War.
However, it doesn’t actually have much to do with the borders of Israel. Israel is recognised as an ‘occupying power’ of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and The Golan Heights by the UN Security Council Resolution 478; by the UN General Assembly; and by the International Court of Justice. Its sovereign claim to these lands is recognised by no other state in the world therefore its occupation is in breach of international law.
Regarding whether “terror groups” are covered by the Geneva Convention:
1. There is no definition of terrorism in international law so you cannot say that it does not cover “terror groups”. What is a terror group? Can a state’s army be a “terror group” too? International law does not say anything on this.
2. An armed group may choose to abide by the Geneva Convention if it wishes to do so.
3. States can breach the Geneva Convention too and not abide it.
Still milking the Holocaust
Im sure it was the Nazi’s who were occupying and confiscating land, but maybe I read my history wrong
Boycott Israeli good like people boycotted South African goods during their mid eval aparthied social experiment. Gandhi also did it it finished the British empire in India. Also by me disagreeing with the murder state of Israel makes me an anti semite in their warped heads then let them call me it i know im not i dont give a flying feck what they think and others shouldnt either with their ridiculous statements why did their Zionists bankers fund the holocaust against their own people is that not anti semite. Their absolutely bonkers.
@the dude, it’s genuinely difficult to tell if you are just a immature troll, mad zionist or possibly just work for the Israeli embassy here (wouldn’t surprise me either). Says it all really.
Civilians are covered by the GC. Israeli Defence Forces shooting kids on a beach? Even though I know you will provide some waffle to attempt to defend this .. here’s the list: • Violation of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination as codified in Res. 1514 (XV) and 2625 (XXV), and recognized by the ICJ in its decision on the Wall. • Violation of customary law, human rights norms (A/RES/194/III, § 11 and customary IHL as codified by the ICRC in 2005, Rule 132, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Art. 12(2)) by prohibiting the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes. • Violation of the Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions requiring Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territory (87 resolutions to this day) and the UN Charter which obliges the Member States to “carry out the decisions of the Security Council” (Art. 25). • Violation of “ the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” (UNSC Res. 242), as well as the Security Council Resolutions condemning the annexation of Jerusalem.3 • Violation of the Palestinian people’s right to their natural resources and wealth through the Israeli use of Palestinian agricultural land, the exploitation of Palestinian water reserves and preventing Palestinian access to more than 10% of their safe drinking water reserves (A/RES/64/292). • Violation of international humanitarian law prohibiting: • the establishment of Israeli settlements (4th 1949 Geneva Convention (GC), Art. 49 and 147), the expulsions of Palestinians from their territory (id.); • the demolitions and expropriations of Arab houses and lands situated in the occupied country (1907 Hague Regulations, Art. 46 and 55); • mistreatment, torture and prolonged administrative detention of Palestinians in Israeli prisons (4th GC, Art. 3, 32 and 78); • non-compliance with the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homes (A/RES/194/III, § 11 and customary IHL as codified by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2005, Rule 132); • military attacks against civilians, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks against Gaza and Palestinian refugees camps (customary international humanitarian law, ICRC Compendium Rules 1 and 14); • collective punishment of the Palestinian population of Gaza, where the World Health Organization reports that life will not be sustainable by the year 2020 (Art. 33, GC); • the terms articulated by the 2004 ICJ decision on the Wall. • Violation of fundamental rights and freedoms such as freedom of movement, freedom of religion, right to work, to health, to education because of the Israeli Wall and check-points in the Occupied Territory which prevent Palestinian free access to their work place, school, health services and religious places (1966 Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Art. 12 and 18; id. on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Art. 6, 12, 13)
well said John
@the dude, should Americans leave north America also? Give land back to native Americans. Or maybe the Turks should take back Greece, parts of Russia, Hungary, macadamia and north East Africa? Or should the Persian Empire, Byzantine Empire and Roman Empire lands be restored? Yet “12 tribes of Israel” get to occupy and grab land like we are still in the middle ages. Thankfully at least most Irish people seems to see these war criminals for what they are
@Ignoreland – Israel is NOT recognised as an occupying power, regardless of how many times you lot peddle that lie. They are disputed territories. I suggest you read the following article. You may learn something.
http://www.jcpa.org/art/brief1-1.htm
@DM – I suggest you take some English writing classes. Your punctuation is truly awful. It displays how poorly educated our current youth are.
@the dude … I notice you haven’t commented on Israeli breaches of international law…
@the dude, you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to be the punctuation police. So punctuation defines good or bad education? I have a honors degree but I am dyslexic. Being not 100% at English is ok with me; being a immature zionist brainwashed pig like you will suck forever.
The link you provided was published by “Center for Jewish Community Studies” and “Jewish Centre for Public Affairs” located in Israel……. Credibility 0.
God help Israel if you are the crap they are producing. Utterly pathetic
Real legitimate source you cited there, The Dude.
My statement was that the UN Security Council and General Assembly recognise Israel as an occupying power. And what does the first line of your link say?:
“Last month’s Palestinian draft resolution at the UN Security Council again described the West Bank and Gaza Strip as “occupied Palestinian territories.”
So you see, the UN and every other state recognises Israel as an occupying power. Even the source you cited says that, even if it is trying to argue other wise.
The source you cite is trying to argue what it thinks the law SHOULD be.
The sources I’m citing are telling you what the law IS.
It’s you that needs to “learn something”, i.e. the difference between is and ought.
Also, the West Bank and the Gaza strip cannot be described as disputed territories as this can only be used in international law to describe a dispute between two sovereign states as to the status of a territory, e.g. Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
As Palestine is not a sovereign state, because Israel won’t allow it to be and is doing everything possible to frustrate Palestinian statehood, it can’t be described as a ‘disputed territory’. Disputes require two to tango.
In contrast, ‘occupied territory’ is more accurate as it refers to land which the international community does not recognise as a part of Israel, regardless of whether it is part of a state or not.
Stop saying Jewish it’s zionist. Not all Jews support israel and those who do numbers are falling
@building and occupying illegally taken territory is against international law. All land seized in the 6 day war is regarded illegally occupied.
@Greg, and they’re absolutely correct in every aspect.
@Darren Doyle McCormack..
Just because Israel defends itself against Hamas Terrorist Rocket Attacks it is accused of Nazi genocide against Palestinians who in their Hamas Chaterter pledge destruction of Israel.
Hamas Charter
–’Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).—”
—”The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
@Brian MacCarthaigh. Delighted to spoil your day with Facts.But don’t choke on them as you might require Israeli-made resucitation equipment to be saved.
—”According to polls, 77 percent of Israeli Arabs prefer to live in Israel while only 21 percent want to live in a Palestinian state. They remained quiet during Israel’s ten wars with their brethren after 1948 and some have even volunteered to help out on the home front. Two-thirds say Israel is a good place to live.
Why are the Arabs happy or at least satisfied in Israel? The 156,000 Israeli Arabs of 1948 have been fruitful and multiplied more than ten fold. They look at the incredible slaughter and chaos in the Middle East with millions of Arab refugees living in dire poverty and the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians. They see the rise of radical groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Hezbollah and Shiite militias.
By contrast, save for recurrent short wars with low casualties, Israeli life, often lived on the beaches and in cafes, is peaceful, modern, high tech and vibrant. Thanks to universal healthcare, Arab life expectancy is 79 years, the same as in the United States.—”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-adelman/the-israeli-arabs-trailbl_b_8010020.html
@Mick. Twist it all around and project it out to the gullibini.
The Palestinians never stop whining about Israel and get on with life instead of plotting the destruction of the Israel and all Jews everywhere. And they get lots of ‘Genocide the Jews’ supporters on site here. I wonder if these are really Irish! Meanwhile the Palestinians, continue to increase in population BECAUSE APARTHEID STATES don’t want them even though born in Arab states. In contrast to
Israelis who pay their way the Palestinians are a continually partially- bankrolled by the UN.
And with welfare and medicare in Israel Israeli-Arabs can live as below without turning a wheel.
—”By contrast, save for recurrent short wars with low casualties, Israeli life, often lived on the beaches and in cafes, is peaceful, modern, high tech and vibrant. Thanks to universal healthcare, Arab life expectancy is 79 years, the same as in the United States.—”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-adelman/the-israeli-arabs-trailbl_b_8010020.html
@Dave cullen . They sure ought be ashamed for focussing on demonizing Israel while they turn a blind eye to the real current genocidal violence by Turkey against the Kurds.- and also the occupation of Cyprus.
–”Unlike Israel, Turkey is in NATO — and is currently becoming more Islamic and anti-Western under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. If it is easy for the United States to jawbone tiny Israel, it is geostrategically unwise to do so to Turkey over the island of Cyprus.
Turkey is also less emblematic of the West than is Israel. In the racist habit of assuming low expectations for non-Westerners, European elites do not hold Turkey to the same standards that they do Israel.—”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/13/hanson-occupation-hypocrisy/?page=all
@Caitlin Ite. You’ve made a good case for not starting wars like the 5 Arab Bully States who gambled on snuffin out a wee country on the day after its birth and recognition by the UN.
Too bad they didn’t have Putin to recon with! Instead of giving back 95% of territory won as Israel did Putin would have given the Arabs the finger.
@Stephen murphy…….Good example of a narrow -minded view.
Japan and India,for exs./and many countries are warming to Israel contrary to what you see.Bully to you!
—”Israel’s rapidly rising importance to Japan has come at an opportune time for Tel Aviv, with an evident decline in the strength of its ties with the European Union and its major partner, the United States. In the Middle East too, there has been a further widening of Israel’s isolation, particularly after the Gaza crisis last summer.—”
http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/israel-targets-japan-in-look-east/
You are right Stephen, the world does and will hate them, but here is God’s answer to any and all who hate Israel. I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land. Joel 3:2. I know who’s side I would rather be on.
“@Todd – Geneva convention is not a law. Again I ask – which international law is being referred to?” dude
“The Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, commonly referred to as the Fourth Geneva Convention and abbreviated as GCIV, is one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It was adopted in August 1949, and defines humanitarian protections for civilians in a war zone. There are currently 196 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including this and the other three treaties.[1]
In 1993, the United Nations Security Council adopted a report from the Secretary-General and a Commission of Experts which concluded that the Geneva Conventions had passed into the body of customary international law, thus making them binding on non-signatories to the Conventions whenever they engage in armed conflicts.[2]”
3,000 rockets – that’s a tidy profit for the arms dealers.
I suppose those 3,000 rockets, generously bought as a gift for Israel, have nothing to to with why the people in Gaza are still without many facilities like schools, hospitals, decent housing . . . . .
I’m totally with Israel all the way.
Say anything negative about Israel; get accused of being anti-Semitic. yawwwn
I’m altogether sick and tired of Israel playing the holocaust card. It them behaving like Nazis these days
You are right there Tom Collins, to me Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians is similar to the way the Nazis treated Jews. There will never be peace there while the US backs them.
I NEVER buy anything labelled “from Israel”
Ashame that the whole world had not the moral courage to do the same.
South Africa was the subject of an efficient boycott. .
Why not Israel.??
The arabs are fools, Shias and Sunnis killing one another over a schism between followers of Mohammad nearly two thousand years ago.
Suits Israel perfectly.
You need those votes to become US president John and you have to live up to that to earn a second term
Why not john? They have some great products in aldi every week
Gus Sheridan
53 minutes ago # 16 73
You are right there Tom Collins, to me Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians is similar to the way the Nazis treated Jews. There will never be peace there while the US backs them.”
For heavens sake its galling to think that people like Gus actually believe the BS he has just typed?, I don’t remember the Jews in Germany, Poland, Russia etc during WWII going around blowing themselves up in restaurants, hotels, nite clubs, public transport, shooting innocents stabbing innocents, firing thousands upon thousands of rockets etc etc.
For such genocidal actions by the Israeli state funny how the Palestinian population has absolutely exploded to be the fastest growing population in the entire middle east per capita?.
Yeah you’re right Gus the similarities of the Israeli state and Nazi Germany are striking!
+1 William.
@William …. this is quite a common argument. Are you suggesting that there was zero jewish resistance during world war two? Groups like ŻOB and ZZW committed pretty bad stuff ….. All the ghetto uprisings???? Are you suggesting that the Jewish resistance didn’t fight back and killed nobody?
Rehab you’re not comparing the little bit of Jewish resistance during the late stages of the war (this after many millions of innocent Jews had been starved, shot, gassed worked to death etc) to the Palestinian atrocities are you?.
The Palestinian territories have an obesity problem not something you could say about the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Warzaw, Lodz ghettos etc during the Nazi occupation?.
Aldi doesn’t stock settlement products unlike lidl
60million people died in ww2 of 6million were Jews about 8.7 million from the Soviet Union died just pointing out, and no harm the Jews that died were European none Israeli as its didn’t exist.
Yup. The man who cried wolf too many times doesn’t see the danger of it. Netanyahu needs to see the danger of labelling all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic because some day there may come something that really is anti-Semitic and he will howl and howl (as he does about everything) and no one will care or listen. He really is a vile human being. The only reason he is in power is by advocating fear and threats to get people scared and using that to get elected, just as he basically called out Arab Israelis as a threatening 5th column a day before his March election win. He has absolutely NO domestic policies of his own. If Israel was to suddenly be at peace, the Emperor Netanyahu we would all see would have no clothes. He is a danger to the Middle East AND his fellow Israelis.
This motion by the EU is not anti-Semitic. It is clarifying what is already international law, that products in the Occupied Territories, designated as such by international law are not made in Israel. Simple as that. It does not affect products that are made in the legally designated boundaries of Israel.
There’s no labeling here in the states. It makes it impossible to boycott products from certain places. That being said, I boycott the products that I know of. But in this case, I don’t think boycotting would help. Israel has the full support of the US government. No amount of boycotting will change that. Other countries/regions that have been boycotted did not have US support so the boycotts were able to do some good.
@Gus Sheridan.
Two hates one short comment. Jews and Americans1
@John Joseph McDermot. But you and/or many others like you will holiday in Turkey and buy their products and Bullshit despite the ongoing genocidal war against the Kurds that continues now as I type this. Is it plain old Jew-hatred that draws people to criticism of Israel?
—””They attacked even the wounded. Many people throughout Kurdistan have been arrested wholesale lately. Some of them participated in the election campaigns for our party. Many Turkish mainstream media outlets distort the facts and put the blame of the conflicts on Kurds. But it was the police that started the violence and conflicts… they murdered civilians knowingly and intentionally” — Ferhat Encu, Kurdish MP for the People’s Democratic Party (HDP).
“The police broke F.A.’s teeth, tortured him, beat him and inserted a gun in his anus. … When we saw him, there were bruises and marks of torture all over his body.” — Zozan Acar, F.A.’s lawyer.
“We sent ambulances, but the police opened fire even at the ambulances. They open fire at anyone who go outside.” — Seyfettin Aydemir, co-mayor of Silopi.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6824/turkey-besieges-kurds
Oh my God! The Gatestone Institute… A quick Google finds you a lovely article. ….. Meet the Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate Philanthropist Nina Rosenwald, founder of the Gatestone Institute has used her millions to cement the alliance between the pro-Israel lobby and the Islamophobic fringe.
@Tom Colins. Or according to Palestinian Muslim writing in Gatestone Palestinians are indeed behaving just like Nazis!
—’A Palestinian TV talk show host is facing strong condemnations and threats for hosting an Israeli Jewish singer who is extremely popular among Palestinian youths.
We have now reached the same stage as Germany’s Nazis — the same thing, ironically, we falsely accuse the Jews of being — where the appearance of a Jew on a Palestinian television show is considered as an act of “treason” and a “crime.” In reality, it is we who are the New Nazis.—”
===”They are more bothered by the fact that a Palestinian TV station in Ramallah dared to invite a Jew to an interview. The BDS activists are also not ashamed to expose their anti-Semitism by expressing their outrage over the fact that Yehezkel is an observant Jew wearing a skullcap.
Judging from the angry reactions to the Yehezkel interview, one can only deduce that members of the BDS movement are a deeply antisemitic racists who hate Jews just because of their faith and appearance.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6574/palestinians-yehezkel-interview
Palestinian Muslim Bassam Tawil writing in Gatestone.http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6574/palestinians-yehezkel-interview
Good old Israelis…. playing the Nazi Card.
what about the rights of the jewish states settlements to exit?
What about the right of Palestinian kids not to be shot on the beach by Israeli gun ships?
@Blathnaid
You forgot to add ‘Illegally acquired’ in front of jewish state settlements
Exist where its legal , not illegal as these settlements are . I suppose you wouldn’t mind if someone builds a home illegally in your backyard. After all its a right to exist.
“Right to exist” such BS. No sovereign state in the world have the “right to exist”. Such a benign phrase. Israel were granted land by the Brits and the Americans, have annexed and illegally expanded on it ever since. Roll back to the internationally recognised borders
what borders are those? if you mean the ’67 borders, you’re having a laugh.
They should exit the illegal settlements.
What rights?? Most of the settlements are illegal under international law. That means legally they don’t have any right to exist
Exactly! What about them!
All the while, acting like Nazi’s! Support is failing for Israel….
@Todd Max. Turkey was granted half of Cyprus by the Turkish Military who didn’t negotiate with anybody-just paratrooped in and said ”Get out Greek-this is all Turkey’s now!
@DH. Apartheid is against the law. Yet 54 Muslim states,The OIS, practice it and 1,at least,Mauritania,still practices slavery. Why all the big fuss about Israel? Would this possibly be something todo with Jew-hatred?
Netanyahu is some man to be talking about being ashamed!
Netanyahu is probably the biggest facist around at the moment. The man has no interest in peace in the middle east.This step by Europe is hopefully a first step of many.
Netanyahu is rather worse than just a fascist – he’s almost certainly a Psychopath, as it seems are many in his regime.
Eestimated to be around 1 to 2% of the general population, Psychopaths lack normal human empathy and conscience. Unfortunately, the characteristics of psychopathy also give people advantages in climbing to high office, especially in politics. Things like the learned ability to express fake emotion.
One has to look at what they *do* rather than what they *say*.
In Netanyahu’s case, it is continuing – even increasing – 70yrs of mass murder and ethnic cleansing. War crimes, as described in various UN and other International Tribunal statements.
Hitler and most senior Nazis were rather obviously Psychopaths, and the similarities in behaviour with Israeli government ministers is striking.
The world should have nothing to do with Israel unless and until they reach a permanent settlement with Palestinians and return the stolen land.
It is a disgrace – but speaks volumes about their own Empire ambitions – that the US supports Israel with $5billion/year in ‘aid’, most of it in advanced military weapons which are used to blow Palestinian children to bits, as we all witnessed last year.
the power of the jewish community in America is awesome.
They are feared by non jewish politicians.
Their wealth buys successive administrations.
@ Paul. .going on your obviously “professional” opinion of what makes a psyocpath the seems to a lot of them running around with knives (and cars) stabbing old ladies, children and security personnel in them parts!
I see nothing wrong with this and its time Israel grew up.
I won’t be buying them regardless.
You may start researching all your products before purchase so… A lot of products are marked produced in a country rather than made in.. To hide their real origin
Yeah dairmuid, the last resort of a coward as per usual. Ironically there seems to be a fair deal of similarity to nazi policies on the Israeli side, detention without trial, summary execution, land grabbing, destruction of homes, using cluster bombs on civilians ghettos and apartheid to name just a few
Couldn’t have put it better myself, they a the best at showing what the the nazis were like than anybody ever will.
The Jewish army should have black uniforms, jackboots, crooked crosses on their shoulders, and eagles on their officers hats
There are enough jackboot on here to make a small army hiding behind their keyboards as usual!!!
Well said bill, the Jews were there under Roman occupation and that empire is broken up, and they will. Be there when the EU is no more, long live the nation of Israel, kick away lads.
@ flappy…..the Jews were in thriving communities all across the Middle East (in 1945 a quarter of Bagdad was Jewish) and our jackbooted “warriors” would like to get rid of all the rest of the Jews (oops! …Israelis, we don’t hate the Jews just Israelis!!!) The usual old pony and trap! I can’t wait to see the new labels so I can support Israeli producers and their Jewish AND Arab workers!!
And the eu doesn’t sopport a block of Israel goods. But when it’s bombing Palestine to bits it says nothing…. makes sense
I wonder what the people who actually suffered the horror of the holocaust actually think of these kind of statements. Shouting “Holocaust” and “anti-semitism” at every slight criticism of Israel (or in this case a requirement for factual packaging) is not only stupid, but belittles the suffering so many Jews and other persecuted people went through.
That is nonsence in these treads defenders of Israel always mention the reality of Israel today The size of Munster surrounded by enemies Had the fight 3 wars for its existence since 1948 There are good reasoned arguments to support Israel and its existence in today’s middle east reality
These guys come out with some crackers like …. the Palestinians convinced hitler to kill the Jews …… Go home Israel … You’re drunk lol
Well at least admit Israel lives in a dangerous neighbourhood No other UN nation is regularly treathened with destruction by another ie Iran ISIL Hezbollah HAMAS are funded by the gulf states Lots of Pastistinian suicide bombers would love a chance to attach A host of enemies who want the destruction of the Jewish state The only western style secular state in the middle east with 20% Arab population All EU want to do is impose more sanctions
Please spare me. For any country to be taken seriously it has to accept both good and bad criticism when warranted which your precious Israel is simply incapable of. The anti semitic card I’m afraid has ran it’s course and is now nothing but tired hissyfit words when it gets used on a weekly basis towards pretty much everyone who takes offence or criticism againt Israeli actions.
@Tommy Byrne. The Palestinian in question was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al- Husseini,uncle of Yasser Arafat,who not only convinced Hitler but was there all along convincing others to expedite the Jews to the gas chambers in Poland. Below is an actual letter to the Hung. Govt. to redirect Palestine-bound children to Poland for gassing.
—”Mufti Asks Hungary to Send Jews to Poland
[The Nation appended their own note to this document: "As a Sequel to This Request 400,000 Jews Were Subsequently Killed."]
Rome
June 28, 1943
His Excellency
The Minister of Foreign Affairs for Hungary
Your Excellency:
…………LAST CHAPTER see link for all
—”This is the reason why I ask your Excellency to permit me to draw your attention to the necessity of preventing the Jews from leaving your country for Palestine and if there are reasons which make their removal necessary, it would be indispensable and infinitely preferable to send them to other countries where they would find themselves under active control, for example, in Poland, in order thereby to protect oneself from their menace and avoid the consequent damages—”
Yours, etc.
Source: The Arab Higher Committee. Its Origins, Personnel and Purposes. Documentary Record Submitted to the United Nations, May 1947, by the Nation Associates. Hungary acceded to the Mufti’s request and sent Hungarian Jews to the death camps (“where they would find themselves under active control”) in Poland. The Nation Associates added their own note stating that as a result of this request, 400,000 Jews were killed.
[Letter from Mufti ends here]
Link to Palestinian Grande Genocider of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini’s lwtter above,-
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/bakera.htm
I bet Pavee Point copy every word of Netanyahu’s speeches for future use. Ever notice the similarity in the rhetoric used by both.
I don’t remember any article from Pavee point that compared Ireland to a nazi regime.
Can you provide a link?
No stopit, but there are several good online dictionaries which will define rhetoric for you.
I looked up “talking through their hole” in the dictionary and I found a photo of you.
Classic symptom of insecurity stopit, trying to cover your own inadequacy with personal jibes. Carry on though, you can only improve.
Enjoy the rest of your life Martin, it hope it’s a fun as your posts.
QED, stop it.
And in the meantime, https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/19568-president-obama-signs-law-targeting-boycotts-of-israel
Surely some would agree this is a bit of an overreach for the US? I believe there are both republicans and democrats who took a pause when they heard about this …
Could it mean that the US could not buy oil from Saudi ?
Israel should put yellow star on all products coming from Israel to Europe I notice EU is not asking Intel to label their goods made in Israel If Israel did what the EU want and go back to its 1967 birders it would be the size of Cork Would not survive for long then
I stopped buying products from Israel because I can’t distinguish what is from an illegal settlement and which is not.
This will be a good thing for Israeli producers as we can at least feel more comfortable buying their goods.
Filth
We can’t name stuff made in the UK as made in Ireland. Why does Netanyahu think israel can and should be allowed label goods made in Palestine as Israeli. And who do these companies pay tax too. ?
@ Joe….you do mean made in Jordan don’t you! (As it was Jordanian until 1967!)
So you believe the land should be returned to the Jordians?
Yo dude. Just all of these. http://www.ipsc.ie/israels-violations-of-international-law-a-brief-introduction
And more specifically Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that it is illegal for an occupying power to “deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies”, all such settlements are thus war crimes. UN Security Council Resolution 446 declares settlements have “no legal validity”.
Oh yeah, Benji, and aggressively encroaching on the land of other ethnic groups in a wholly unlawful way isn’t in any way similar to Nazi-era practices……..
It’s very difficult to get through to any Israeli the justifiable disgust decent people feel towards their behaviour. The massive disproportionate Jewish Lobby in Washington DC. The virtual monopoly control of Global Media and the same with world finances conspires against any legitimate criticism of Israeli behaviour. It gives a sense of impunity to them.
The most effective way to express censure is by BDS. BOYCOTT,DIVESTMENT,SANCTIONS ( check out this site on Google ) It is a peaceful movement that has taken it’s methods from the successful way Apartheid South Africa was encouraged into the civilised world.
All that will happen as Netanyahu or Satan as journal readers call him This directive only covers agricultural products The processing plants outside the 67 borders will move to inside 67 borders and the Palestinian workers will loose their jobs By the way Satan rules the world though his control of global media
@ Peter….if the Jews control the world media they sure are doing a crap job, similarly with the “jewish lobby” in Washington if they were lobbying on my behalf I would want my money back! There are about 15 million Jews in the world about half in Israel which means there are nearly as many Irish peopl as Jews and way more with Irish ancestry!
It’s nazi behaviour all right… Abusing your might and position, in order to kill innocent men, women and children – in order to achieve your spoils. Disgraceful. Israel are the terrorists, committing murder at will, in full view of the worlds nations… and then they have the neck to criticise those nations for taking actions against them. Farcical. More actions needed.
John, the enemy’s of Israel tell their children, the rocks and trees will call out to them ” a Jew is hiding behind me come and kill him”
Can Israel not defend it self? Against an enemy who wants all Jews dead,
Further the enemies of Israel don’t want peace with Israel.
Those who try to defend Israel, only indict themselves with the blood of the innocents. Israel’s murderous totalitarian behaviour is indefensiible. Unless of course, you subscribe to murder and delusion.
John, your away with the fairies, good luck.
Sudonym says it alll. Hiding behind flappy and crap, just about sums you up.
Anger not good for ya,
@John O’Hara .. Same people missed the 2,000’000 St Sudanese butchered by Nth Sudanese Muslim warlords.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with Jew -hatred would it!
Neither is defending the killers of innocent people……..
Ah… the auld jew hatred card. To be played on anyone that dares to criticise those responsible for the killing of innocent men, women and children, whether the killers be Nazi’s or Jews. If your morals were as good as your strategies and loyalities… then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. The biggest promoter of hatred for the jews worldwide, is Israel. The Nazi’s and the Jews are very similar in their commiting of attrocities. Both have the beliief, that they wer/are right. I would’ve thought, that the Jews would have better moral standards, considering their experience of the Nazi’s. But now they copy them, while at the same time, playing the anti-semite and holocost cards. What hypocrites they are.
@John O’Hara. My rephrased question is”Why do people consistently focus on the legitimate actions of the state of Israel defending itself, where the casualties were just over 2,000 and approx. 5/700 were Hamas un-uniformed operatives some of whom acc. to UN evidence used children as shields, and don’t seem at all concerned about the conflict in Sudan that was out-and-out genocide resulting in 2,000,000 people butchered by the Muslim Warlords of Nth Sudan?
And where are all the humanitarians when the Turks,this very minute are murdering Kurds?
Continuous demonizing of Israel beg’s the question “what’s behind it all?”
I have many Oriental friends and acquaintances who ,having no love or hate for Israel ,wont hesitate to say that this focussing on Israel is indeed strange- but are too scrupulous to .call it Jew-hatred
And why would anyone bother to explain themselves if not accused of Jew-hatred? It was just a rhetorical question in my post.”Wouldn’t have anything to do with Jew-hatred would it!
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Others commiting attrocities, does not excuse Israel for commiting attrocities. This is what you fanatics do. You try to shift the debate away from the reality, that Israel is now behaving the same as the Nazi’s. Indiscrimate killing, no regard for law and order (unless it is their law and order), no respect for justice, no respect for the many other nations, who are absolutely appauled at Israels continuous commiting of attrocities against human decency. Regarding your ‘Jew hatred – You, Israel and others like you , whom support vicious actions against the innocents, just seve to open the eyes of the rest of the world, as to, who exactly the Jews support. Killing is as wrong for a Jew as it is for anyone else, but the Jews think they are above everyone else and only their laws should apply. Hitler did the same thing, was he right? WAs he right or just deluded, as Israel and their supporters are. The innocents that Israel have killed remain dead as do the Jews that Hitler killed. Based on your FB page you are an extremist. Extremists are only good for one thing…. Trouble. You should be ashamed of yourself, supporting murderers, for your extremism.
@John O’Hara. You are ,like all your terrorist-supporting ilk,are all talk and no proof of your accusations;to prove you must have intent and the genocidal intent of Hamas is well documented in their Hamas Charter below.
—”Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). –”’
ARTICLE 7: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.—” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:
Article Eight:
—”Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.—”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/ha
Enjoy reading the Jew-hating Hamas Charter in full andno repost nec. esp., from FB Creeping -Toms.
AS usual, you fanatics don’t listen, just continue propagating your red herrings, to muddy the waters while you carry on with your delusion and murder. Bad news for you, even the decent Jews are copping on to you, that you are responsible for giving them a bad name and reputation. Now they just need to do something about it, break their silence and criticise the attrocities being carried out in their name.
But the yanks will back the jews….
Yes because the US is controlled by the Jews.
Israel should lose the land handed to them in the 1940′s and see how the f*** they like. Damn Jews…
@ Niall….at least you are honest enough to say what you mean, you hate the Jews. Your buddies have the same opinion but hide it to suggest they care about the Arabs when it the Jews they despise!
“Over the past nine years, Israeli exports have risen from $7.8 billion to $15.6 billion”
Hamas apologists.
Let those figures stick in your craw.
Those that DENY Freedom to others
Do NOT deserve for themselves.
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See the “hate” mongers are out in force this morning. Lots of short, bigoted and convenient memories. I wonder sometimes when I read the comments on here, generally “anti Jew” under the guise of anti Israel, do people actually know what they are talking about. Comments to the effect that “Jews” should get over the death of over 6 million of their kind men, women & children) between 1935 and 1945 really says it all! That they should ignore the fact an organisation elected by the so called “Palestinian People” has the total destruction of Israel and its people as it’s core principal! FFS here we are in S.Ireland and we still get get over the British been here over a hundred years ago! By the way isn’t it strange that the term ” Palestinian People” only popped up in around 1967 after Mr Arafat’s meetings with the Russians. Maybe the KGB had something to do with that?
Here is a bit of History for you:
Judah lost its independence to Rome in the year 70 and became again a colony. In the year 135, the Romans gave the country the name ”Palaestina”. The name Palaestina, which became Palestine in English, is derived from Herodotus, who used the term Palaistine Syria to refer to the entire southern part of Syria, meaning “Philistine Syria.” This was to add insult to injury against the Jewish people. The intent was to remove any memory of a Jewish presence. The name was kept by the next possessors, the Byzantine Empire, and then by the conquering Arabs and their successors, the conquering Turks. Note that we have a succession of different nationalities, none of whom thought of themselves as Palestinians. They were the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, or Turks.
So the ”Palestinian People” have an historic connection to the land?
This is very interesting since there is no such thing as a “Palestinian People”. When the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestine, the people living there at the time were Jews, not Arabs. If there had been a “Palestinian People”, which there never was, they would have been Jews.
I think we should kick Israel out of the Eurovision song contest.
I agree, didn’t like their last offering,
Playing the holocaust card again and again. Keep saying the same thing and it starts to lose all meaning. Especially with a great pile of hypocrisy thrown in.
Shame on the EU.
What ever happen to that guy in Galway who was not handling Israel produce, you think that would of gotten the same momentum as the Dunnes with South Africa.
So, is the EU also going to decree that products made in Northen Ireland can no longer be labelled as “made in the UK”?
Or product made in the Vosges region as “made in France”? How about products made in the Basque region?
What utter flipping nonsense from a failed institute.
Made by thieves on stolen land would be accurate labeling.
“EU should be ashamed”? Kettle calling black-ass at the pot! Throwing a hissy fit because the EU, unlike the USA, has the b@lls to stand up to the Israeli land – grabbers (not settlers, as they style themselves). What is it with the people of that unholy land? with trigger – happy IDF on one side, and Hamas on the other side hiding in schools and hospitals while they poke the bear with a sharp stick.
This website focuses a lot on the Asia
Those who DENY Freedom to others
Do NOT deserve it for themselves.
@JustMade Ireland _____The best thing you can do now is to climb back into the Nazi Bunker that you just crawled out of you eeeejit!
Israel denies freedom to the Palestinian people…..
I won’t be buying anything from these racist settlers.
A lot of Xfactor activists I see… yes, just because Israel is the only one singled out of 200 current land disputes does make it an anti Semitic policy… Just because Palestine can’t seem to go 24hrs without blowing up it’s own people and yet the EU is rewarding them by giving in to the bullys demands yet condemns Israel for defending itself, that IS antisemitism… if the Jews were to pack up and leave to “go home” tomorrow where would they go?… they’re home already ya rejects, that’s their land. Sort your lives out hey! And stop downplaying your bigotry… you should be able to recognise with your double standards… hypocrites (disgusted face )
Same old, same old, out come the Journal’s anti-Israel brigade in force with the numbers only dwarfed by the ignorance displayed.
The only result of the boycott movement will be to cause poor Arab (“Palestinian”) workers to lose their jobs and what little independence they had. All workers in Jewish governed lands, disputed or otherwise, are far better off than the so-called “Palestinians” under the yoke of their “own” people. Look no further than Abbas controlled west bank and Gaza for evidence.
I’m seeking to buy MORE Israeli produce where I can.
Made in Palestine?
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