Lieberman: EU's Jewish Policy 'Like 1930s'
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized Europe on Tuesday, saying its treatment of the Jewish state was comparable to policies during the Holocaust.
Lieberman said Europe had turned a blind eye to a speech by Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal this week, in which he said the Palestinians would not "cede an inch" of historic Palestine, which includes much of modern Israel.
"Once again, Europe has ignored calls for Israel's destruction," Lieberman told Israeli public radio.
"We've already seen this at the end of the 1930s and at the beginning of the 1940s when Europe knew what what was happening in the concentration camps and didn't act.
"Europe has slapped itself in the face," he added.
"When Jews are sacrificed, you have to ask yourself who will be next. In Toulouse, the terrorist who killed Jewish children also killed French soldiers," said Lieberman.
He was referring to Mohamed Merah, who killed three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher in the French city of Toulouse in March, days after killing three French troops.
"Terrorism attacks Jews but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre," he added.
Lieberman also criticised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for failing to publicly criticise Meshaal's speech and pursuing reconciliation with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip.
"Hamas calls for Israel's destruction and refused to recognize Israel and Abu Mazen (Abbas) supports this position while Europe stays quiet," he said.
Lieberman's comments come after Europe condemned Israel for reviving controversial settlement construction plans in the wake of the successful Palestinian bid for enhanced United Nations status.
His comments provoked outrage from Yitzhak Herzog, number two in the opposition Labor party, who accused Lieberman of spreading "fear and anguish among Israelis by establishing a link between the current situation and the Holocaust.”
Herzog said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to revive the controversial E1 settlement plan "endangers Jerusalem, isolates Israel and weakens Abu Mazen while strengthening Hamas.”
over 11 years
"Hamas calls for Israel's destruction and refused to recognize Israel and Abu Mazen (Abbas) supports this position"
"Once again, Europe has ignored calls for Israel's destruction,"
"Europe has slapped itself in the face,"
"Terrorism attacks Jews but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre,"
What more needs to be said ?
over 11 years
we all know you hold a doctorate in analytical political science, but nobody has called on nuking Europe! Remember the cycle of events:
1. EU has just got the Nobel prize in peace for making the jews look bad;
2. US senator appealing to EU to sanction hizbala's money machine;
3. EU has burdened themselves with debt, so now they trick on money coming from Arab countries as long as they bias their rhetoric to anti-semitic. This is the world [US + EU] new plan: Sacrifice Israel and the few Christians in the middle east,so we live a good 20 years, not knowing that they are next...I just wonder if your research, Dr. jc, has covered hizbola expansions in Brazil, Paraguay, and Venezuela; the treaties between iran and chavez. History recalls the moors invasions in europe, their mission, and their plans...Which we reject, categorically!
over 11 years
Israel is the best and the rest are garbage. Happy now phillipo.
over 11 years
Nobody is claiming that, except you.
All the Israelis want is an even handed policy.
Just what don't you understand (or don't want to understand)?
Here we go again. I think it is time to nuke Europe.