Israel accuses EU of breaching international terror law

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Israel has accused the European Union of breaching international laws against terrorism by maintaining contact with the radical Islamist groups Hamas and Hizbollah, in a sign of new tension between Israel and Europe.

Last month, EU foreign ministers gave the green light to contact with Hamas candidates in next month’s Palestinian parliamentary elections. An official EU monitoring mission will be allowed contact with election candidates, including Hamas, only as part of its technical work.

The Israeli foreign ministry’s accusations, prepared in a legal analysis seen by the FT, came as EU foreign ministers were expected on Monday to discuss an EU report that in its draft version severely criticises Israeli policies in east Jerusalem, saying they demonstrate Israel’s intention to consolidate its annexation of the Arab half of the city.

Many EU officials believe the inclusion of Hamas on the EU’s list of proscribed terrorist organisations has constrained its work in trying to persuade the militant group to renounce violence. Israel has long argued that the west should suspend all engagement with Hamas and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah.

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3. mujahadeen???

is this another one of those..."lets find something wrong with israel even if it makes no sense whatsoever?

hint: mujahadeen werent involved in the israeli conflict-hamas is

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4. I really don't see the relevance of Wilkinson's book

to I/P - unless we are arguing by analogy that Guatemala is somehow analogous to I/P -- and implicitly that Wilkinson makes that point in his book.

Or maybe the new meme is "pile on Israel for all of the ill of the world" - Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Wilma, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Pakistani Earthquake, the movement of the North Magnetic Pole, the resurgence of Intelligent Design, etc.

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5. This is let's find something wrong with America's overt support of

dictatorial regimes abroad and muslim extremists in Afghanistan. The blowback can be extreme.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011015/johnson
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For Americans who can bear to think about it, those tragic pictures from New York of women holding up photos of their husbands, sons and daughters and asking if anyone knows anything about them look familiar. They are similar to scenes we have seen from Buenos Aires and Santiago. There, too, starting in the 1970s, women held up photos of their loved ones, asking for information. Since it was far too dangerous then to say aloud what they thought had happened to them--that they had been tortured and murdered by US-backed military juntas--the women coined a new word for them, los desaparecidos--"the disappeareds." Our government has never been honest about its own role in the 1973 overthrow of the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile or its backing, through "Operation Condor," of what the State Department has recently called "extrajudicial killings" in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. But we now have several thousand of our own disappeareds, and we are badly mistaken if we think that we in the United States are entirely blameless for what happened to them.

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2. Nit picky lawyers on both sides

Israel could come under criticism at two conferences in London this week on ways to boost the Palestinian economy following Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip this year. In the wake of a suicide attack last week, Israel suspended talks with the Palestinians on a bus link between Gaza and the West Bank, which was due to start on Thursday.

Lawyer nit picking. But as long as the missiles are just memoranda with red ribbons and bows - I guess it's progress.