Palestina en Israel #149

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:12 schreef Karrs het volgende:

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Ah, het is dus toch allemaal de schuld van Israël.

Dan is het balletje weer rond, nietwaar?

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 19:03 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
7:49 P.M. 28 foreign ministers from the European Union issue joint statement calling for the disarmament of all terror organizations in Gaza. (Barak Ravid) - Ha'aretz

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:07 schreef Karrs het volgende:

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Hebben "jullie" dit al gemeld?

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:13 schreef Pleun2011 het volgende:
Ik heb het idee dat Israël er steeds minder goed opstaat in de rest van de wereld en dat steeds meer mensen de kant van de Palestijnen kiezen

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Yet many observers in Israel and abroad, while acknowledging that Israel’s war was initially supported by most of the world, see the tide turning now, especially after a fierce fight between the Israeli army and Hamas terrorists early Sunday morning in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya. According to Palestinians sources, at least 60 people were killed during the fighting, including 17 children, 14 women and 4 elderly. (Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed Sunday in various battles in Shejaiya.)

“I condemn this atrocious action. Israel must exercise maximum restraint and do far more to protect civilians,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, referring to the IDF’s fight in Shejaiya.

“The world community is almost unanimous in its disapproval of Netanyahu’s massive use of force in Gaza,” asserted Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former US national security adviser and currently a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

A quick survey of statements and press releases by world leaders does suggest that the international community – with certain notable exceptions, such as Canada — are growing impatient with Israel’s operation and its civilian casualties.

“In Israel and in Gaza, the situation is very hard,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday. “Nothing justifies continued attacks and massacres which do nothing but only claim more victims and stoke tensions, hatred,” he said, adding that Paris will “act forcefully” to demand an immediate ceasefire.

In South Africa, the majority leader in parliament called on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador in Pretoria and to withdraw its envoy to Tel Aviv. “The African National Congress in parliament is extremely outraged by the wanton and unjustifiable bombardment and killings of innocent civilians, including children, in Palestinian territory of Gaza by Israel military forces,” ANC Chief Whip Phumelele Stone Sizani declared.

Even British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said on Monday that Israel has the “right to defend itself,” found some strong words about the high number of civilian deaths.

While the current crisis in Gaza was “triggered by Hamas raining hundreds of rockets on Israeli cities, indiscriminately targeting civilians in contravention of all humanitarian law and norms,” Cameron said, he shared the world’s “grave concern” over the “heavy toll” of civilian casualties. “The figures are very disturbing,” he said, urging Israel to “do everything to avoid civilian casualties, to exercise restraint and to help find ways to bring this situation to an end.”

The leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband was even clearer: “We oppose the Israeli incursion into Gaza,” he said in an interview.

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(Despite very harsh criticism of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, the government in Pretoria has made it clear that it has no intention to expel or withdraw any ambassadors, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said.)

“I’m not particularly worried about international support for the operation, for two reasons. First of all, nobody likes Hamas — including in the Arab world and the Palestinian Authority,” said Avi Primor, a former Israeli ambassador in Europe and currently the president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations. “Secondly, we have accepted the ceasefire; we hesitated long before we attacked from the air; then we hesitated again before we attacked from ground. We’re also obviously looking for a ceasefire now, while Hamas refuses.” The world knows that Hamas, not Israel, is the problem, he said.

True, Primor allowed, there are Muslim minorities worldwide “who are emotionally involved” in Gaza, but even though the demonstrations in Europe look massive they do not represent the continent’s entire population, and “certainly the government.” Most of the demonstrators are not citizens of the countries they reside in, he said, adding that Paris threatened to expel all non-citizen residents of France who participate in illegal anti-Israel demonstrations.

“I’m not worried,” he said, explaining that most European governments see militant pro-Palestinian protesters as a threat to their own countries’ internal security and will confront them harshly. Even peaceful demonstrations against the Gaza war will not turn governments against Israel, he assessed.

Indeed, certainly the Western world understands that Israel is under attack by an Islamic terrorist organizations and needs to defend itself, and that local protest will not convince them otherwise, a senior Israeli official said. “They know that the people who take to the street are the usual suspects: Muslims, marginals, and people from the far left,” he said. “The mainstream doesn’t demonstrate against Israel.”

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:26 schreef Karrs het volgende:

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Waarom zei je het dan?

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:28 schreef Karrs het volgende:

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Ach, ik wou even weten of je de daad ook bij het woord zou voegen, dat is alles. Maar je was gewoon weer aan het treiteren, zo te merken.

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Op dinsdag 22 juli 2014 20:32 schreef Karrs het volgende:

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Hadden we er een wedje om gelegd? Ik moet dat voortaan gewoon van tevoren aangeven.

Nou, kom gewoon alsnog maar op met een lekker kratje bier.