The Council of the European Union (EU) has disqualified itself from influencing any resolution of the 100 years old Jewish-Arab conflict following the release of its “Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process” on 18 January.
Continuing its partisan support of Arab demands the EU has reaffirmed its July 2014 position:
“The EU recalls its willingness to engage further with regional partners on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative which provides key elements for the settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the opportunity for building a regional security framework.”
Key elements of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative included:
- “Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights to the lines of June 4, 1967 as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon.”
- “The acceptance of the establishment of a Sovereign Independent Palestinian State on the Palestinian territories occupied since the 4th of June 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza strip, with east Jerusalem as its capital”
Israel’s agreement to negotiate with the PLO on the basis of the 2003 Bush Roadmap was contingent on the removal of all references to the Arab Peace Initiative from the Roadmap along with 13 other detailed reservations.
American Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice gave the following assurances to Israel on 23 May 2003:
“The roadmap was presented to the Government of Israel with a request from the President that it respond with contributions to this document to advance true peace. The United States Government received a response from the Government of Israel, explaining its significant concerns about the roadmap. The United States shares the view of the Government of Israel that these are real concerns and will address them fully and seriously in the implementation of the roadmap to fulfil the President’s vision of June 24, 2002.”
This fundamental disconnect between the EU and Israel over the Arab Peace Initiative continues to detrimentally impact on their relationship.
- conquer an area of Syria and Iraq larger than Great Britain – resulting in millions of Arabs being brutally slayed, injured, traumatised and physically displaced into Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and even the EU.
- become a distinct security threat to Israel and its Arab neighbours
The Arab Peace Initiative has been effectively consigned to the dustbin of history as a result.
Stubbornly continuing to support these key elements of the Arab Peace Initiative has led a clearly frustrated EU to take action to unilaterally end Israel’s total lawful control of Area “C” in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) by instigating the following intemperate actions:
- Requiring Israel to specifically identify goods, products and services originating from Jewish settlements in Judea,Samaria,the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem
- Funding and actively supporting illegal Arab housing construction in Area “C”
Israel reportedly considers that such actions by the EU give the Palestinian Arabs false hope that if they just hold out long enough – the EU will somehow be able to “deliver” Israel.
EU policy and its conduct since July 2014 has exacerbated the Jewish-Arab conflict rather than playing a constructive role in its resolution.
In reaffirming that policy in 2016 – despite total chaos occurring among Arab States in the region – the EU has clearly become irrelevant and can no longer have any meaningful role in resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
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too much pussyfooting around a millenial behavior. There has been no significant change in the 2000 year religious/secular European war agianst the Jewish people. Sometimes they kill jews, sometimes they libel Jews, sometimes they swindle Jews but without a doubt allthese behaviors continue to recycle. Only a few decades ago they were einthusiastically buning and gassing Jews in ovens and then for a few decades they were shamed so they instead libeled and swindled Jews and funded the arab/muslim orgs to do the slaughtering for them…… over time we see the same old euro, whether religous or secular returning slowly to be more accepting of overtly doing that which they were doing covertly for a short while since hitler.
When they engage in these fake peace negotiations it is just another red herring tactic for covering up their funded killing of Jews by others. All their institutions are now back in full mode as they were before their last overt pogrom shoah of the Jews: their govs, their universities, their churches, their leaders…. all are partaking in blood libels and funding Jew killers. It is only the pserceptions of Jews which change……. Instead of seeing the euros as existential enemies bent on murder and pogrom the Jews keep bouncing back grasping for every straw no matter haw many times they demonstrate their war. The Jews perceive now that europe is losing relvancy in negotiations while the euros build homes for muslims illegally in the Jewish homeland of YS which the euros make sure are outside the limits of their euro designated ghetto boundaries for the Jews.
Europe remains relevant as an existential enemy funding enemies of the Jews to slaughter Jews…. how should such an enemy be treated, that is the real question. Israel should similarly find covert ways to damage europe and europeans while at the same time pretending to be allied. Sending muslim pals to europe by expanding smuggling networks will help destabilize the enemy and force him to deal with his internal problem instead of stalking Jews.
The spiritual heirs to Esav will not give up. Their covert efforts and acts of misdirection being frustrated, when they are exposed as frauds, they will attack overtly.