EU Refuses Israel's Request to Blacklist Hizbullah
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The European Union turned down a request Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hizbullah as a “terror group” after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria.
"There is no consensus for putting Hizbullah on the list of terrorist organizations," said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Israel blames Iran and Hizbullah for Wednesday's suicide attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver died.
Sitting alongside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: "The time has come to put Hizbullah on the terrorist list of Europe."
"It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people."
But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hizbullah was an organization comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was "active in Lebanese politics."
"Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hizbullah on the list of terrorist organizations," she said.
The EU would consider this if there were tangible evidence of Hizbullah engaging in acts of terror, she added.
24 July 2012, 18:29
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But in Lebanon, my man is better than your man because my man is this religion and your man is that religion and my religion is more sacred than your religion. That is why I live in a neighborhood that only has members of my religion and I drive a car with a symbol of my religion on it and only vote and listen to politicians of my religion even though they might say some stupid things.
24 July 2012, 19:04
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On the one hand, I am glad for this decision: EU has refused, once again, to succumb to Israeli political pressure. For which I commend the 27. Unfortunately, on the other hand, Hizb-Al-Kuffar (7aram to mention the Hizb and the Sanctified word of Allah in the same sentence) ARE a terrorist organization! If it were a Lebanese official who had urged the EU to adopt such a stance, it would have been different. Because above all, Hizb-al-Tughat are a menace to Lebanon and the Lebanese people (because, with all due respect to the dead in Bulgaria, they are as nothing compared to those dead by Hizb-al-Suffala in Lebanon.
24 July 2012, 19:17
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Now this is a big slap in the face. Finally Europe stood up to US and Israel.
24 July 2012, 21:11
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The Party of God = Pervasive Cancer, pure and evil, unrelenting and undeterred, hell bent on cancelling at least 50% of the Lebanese population by any means necessary including and up to lies, propaganda, disinformation and terror tactics. They are belligerent, defiant and indifferent. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a card carrying member with the same exact disposition.
Guess what? The EU is a card carrying member or afraid to be the next target. These fools think their pet Python will not bite the hand that feeds it one day. FOOLS! The Party of God will reward you for your indiscretion as soon as IRAN rings Nassrallah's bell and orders him to make it so. COWARDS!
24 July 2012, 21:50
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Too early to be celebrating bonehead because they have yet to complete a thorough investigation of this bombing in Bulgaria and pin point the murderers. Remember if u r capable, you are innocent until proven guilty. Unlike your HA mode of operation....guilty until proven innocent. Look how long it took to prove your scum bags killed our beloved Rafik. Same goes here....soon they will have concrete evidence linking the blood of innocent people on the hands of HA. At that point you will see the EU change it's stance.
24 July 2012, 21:52
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You are right Motormouth....Not without/until solid proof is presented. Don't hold your breath. It will. These regressed HA murderers can not even cover up the tracks of a mouse!
24 July 2012, 23:09
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Funny how ALIAS BSThrower responded for Motormouth....LOL. What a freak!
25 July 2012, 08:18
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It was a suicide bomber. Could have been a Wahabi trying to pin it on Hezbollah, dead Jews and get the Shiites bombed. Double bonus!
Seriously now, do Shiites engage in suicide bombings?
