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EU stand on Zionist settlements highlight political bankruptcy
Berlin, Dec 14, IRNA -- A meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels here Monday highlighted EU's political bankruptcy in confronting Zionist regime over its ongoing settlement construction in Palestinian territories.
European leaders appeared evidently to be resigned to the Zionist state's defiance of the international community and were not willing to enact any sanctions against Tel Aviv over the construction of settlements.
The EU's Monday meeting comes in the wake of a strong statement by a group of former European leaders who called on the European bloc to impose sanctions over the Zionists' settlement policy.
In an strongly worded letter sent Thursday to the leadership of the European Union and the governments of the EU's 27 member states, the signatories, including the former heads of states and governments, the former EU heards of states said the Zionist settlement policy posed an 'existential threat' to the two-state solution.
However, the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle whose country is a close ally of the Zionist regime, rejected demands for a hardline approach vis-a-vis Tel Aviv.
'This is not about pressure. This is about reaching good results,' Westerwelle said on the sidelines of the EU foreign minister talks in the Belgian capital.
An EU draft statement from the ministers' meeting simply expressed only 'regret' that the Zionist regime had not extended the moratorium!
The decision of the Zionist state not to renew a temporary freeze on the process of more Zionist settlements' construction in September brought the latest round of peace talks to an abrupt end.
Diplomatic efforts to take the Zionist regime to the UN Security Council over its refusal to halt settlements were also given virtually no chance whatsoever in the light of the blind US support for the racist Zionist regime.
Germany's Ambassador to the UN Peter Wittig said in a speech to the German Council on Foreign Relations that certain UN veto powers were trying to keep the issue of 'Israel' out of the highest UN body.
He admitted also there was 'little room for an European initiative' in the UNSC to deal with the Zionist settlement policy.
The EU's refusal to crackdown hard on the illegal Jewish state has further frustrated the western-backed Palestinian leaders, including the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Salam Fayyad who slammed the US and Europe for abandoning the PA in its talks with the Zionist regime.
Europe and the US are not doing anything against the Jewish settlements, he told the German daily Tageszeitung (TAZ).
While European leaders are still paying lipservice to the so-called Middle East peace process, the German press have already labeled that process as finished.
The Munich-based daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung said in an editorial earlier this month that the Middle East peace process had finally come to an end as the US President Barack Obama had caved in to the pressure of radical forces in 'Israel.'
Pointing to the recent US announcement it was abandoning efforts to get the Zionist regime to institute a 90-day freeze on construction at its West Bank settlements, the paper said this was tantamount to 'the end of the peace process.'
Obama has 'capitulated to a bunch of settlers,' it stressed.
According to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the US president's Middle East policy was the best example of how one should not proceed if the ultimate goal was to achieve peace in the region.
The Berlin-based newspaper Junge Welt, too, said 'Israel' was openly 'mocking' the rest of the world over its settlement policies.
Political observers in Berlin point out a major shortcoming of the EU was the fact that it lacked a clear and independent Middle East strategy and was merely waiting for the US to make the tough decisions for it.
That strategy has now turned out to be an utter failure, highlighting Europe's bankrupt Middle East policy which could ultimately lead to a new major escalation in the Palestinian conflict, something which the EU had hoped to avoid all along./end
European leaders appeared evidently to be resigned to the Zionist state's defiance of the international community and were not willing to enact any sanctions against Tel Aviv over the construction of settlements.
The EU's Monday meeting comes in the wake of a strong statement by a group of former European leaders who called on the European bloc to impose sanctions over the Zionists' settlement policy.
In an strongly worded letter sent Thursday to the leadership of the European Union and the governments of the EU's 27 member states, the signatories, including the former heads of states and governments, the former EU heards of states said the Zionist settlement policy posed an 'existential threat' to the two-state solution.
However, the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle whose country is a close ally of the Zionist regime, rejected demands for a hardline approach vis-a-vis Tel Aviv.
'This is not about pressure. This is about reaching good results,' Westerwelle said on the sidelines of the EU foreign minister talks in the Belgian capital.
An EU draft statement from the ministers' meeting simply expressed only 'regret' that the Zionist regime had not extended the moratorium!
The decision of the Zionist state not to renew a temporary freeze on the process of more Zionist settlements' construction in September brought the latest round of peace talks to an abrupt end.
Diplomatic efforts to take the Zionist regime to the UN Security Council over its refusal to halt settlements were also given virtually no chance whatsoever in the light of the blind US support for the racist Zionist regime.
Germany's Ambassador to the UN Peter Wittig said in a speech to the German Council on Foreign Relations that certain UN veto powers were trying to keep the issue of 'Israel' out of the highest UN body.
He admitted also there was 'little room for an European initiative' in the UNSC to deal with the Zionist settlement policy.
The EU's refusal to crackdown hard on the illegal Jewish state has further frustrated the western-backed Palestinian leaders, including the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Salam Fayyad who slammed the US and Europe for abandoning the PA in its talks with the Zionist regime.
Europe and the US are not doing anything against the Jewish settlements, he told the German daily Tageszeitung (TAZ).
While European leaders are still paying lipservice to the so-called Middle East peace process, the German press have already labeled that process as finished.
The Munich-based daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung said in an editorial earlier this month that the Middle East peace process had finally come to an end as the US President Barack Obama had caved in to the pressure of radical forces in 'Israel.'
Pointing to the recent US announcement it was abandoning efforts to get the Zionist regime to institute a 90-day freeze on construction at its West Bank settlements, the paper said this was tantamount to 'the end of the peace process.'
Obama has 'capitulated to a bunch of settlers,' it stressed.
According to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the US president's Middle East policy was the best example of how one should not proceed if the ultimate goal was to achieve peace in the region.
The Berlin-based newspaper Junge Welt, too, said 'Israel' was openly 'mocking' the rest of the world over its settlement policies.
Political observers in Berlin point out a major shortcoming of the EU was the fact that it lacked a clear and independent Middle East strategy and was merely waiting for the US to make the tough decisions for it.
That strategy has now turned out to be an utter failure, highlighting Europe's bankrupt Middle East policy which could ultimately lead to a new major escalation in the Palestinian conflict, something which the EU had hoped to avoid all along./end
