The European Union is encouraging rocket attacks on Israel.
How? By emphasizing Israel’s actions taken in self-defense, and minimizing the acts that cause them.
The EU passed a a resolution that effectively blames Israel for closing Gaza without really attaching any blame to the reason for the closure: 400 rockets so far this year. Just read the language of the EU Parliament’s statement on Israel yesterday. Hamas is mentioned exactly four times. One of those times is in reference to Israel releasing Hamas prisoners as a goodwill gesture. Another is calling for a dialogue between Hamas and the PA. That leaves two references actually calling for Hamas to stop its “violence” against Israel. Here’s one of them:
3. Reiterates its call for an immediate end to all acts of violence; calls on Israel to cease military actions killing and endangering civilians, and extrajudicial targeted killings; calls on Hamas, following the illegal takeover of the Gaza Strip, to prevent the firing of rockets by Palestinian militias from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory;
Look at the phrase in bold and italics. Not only does the EU Parliament want Israel to stop “all acts of violence,” but the EU calls for Israel to stop killing terrorists. In other words, Israel doesn’t even get to defend herself against rocket attacks, or the elimination of what are known as “ticking bombs”—terrorists literally on their way to commit terrorist acts. What, then, does the EU ask of Hamas?
9. Considers that the functioning of public institutions providing essential services and the operations of the international humanitarian offices, agencies and organisations seeking to improve the conditions of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip require, despite the political deadlock, a dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas;
Oh. A dialogue. And oh, yeah—the Road Map. Hamas should “revise its position” with regard to that.
[…] calls on Hamas to revise its position in line with the Quartet principles and the previously agreed international obligations, and to support the peace process and the ongoing negotiations;
You know, this position, from the Hamas charter:
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
And this one, from Hamas’ anniversary celebration last October:
“Today you are here to send a message to those who say the land of Palestine is not for sale,†said Mahmoud Zahar, a fiery Hamas leader. “Whoever thinks we will recognize a Jewish state … are deluding themselves. There will be no recognition of the state of Israel.â€
The EU thinks that Hamas is going to suddenly change. Probably because of statements like this:
“Hamas is ready for a mutual cease-fire with Israel,” Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the group, said Friday.
“The Hamas movement is ready to explore any initiative toward ending Israel’s aggressive tactics against the Palestinian people,” Zuhri said in a written statement.
Interesting. Why do you suppose they’re ready for a cease-fire? Here’s a hint.
“Scatter!” the Hamas police chief ordered his black-bearded officers at the sound of an aircraft, fearing they’d become the latest casualties in the deadly confrontation with Israel.
Hamas policemen, the emblem of eight months of Islamic militant control of Gaza, are on edge and on the move these days. Worried about Israeli missiles, they mostly roam the streets away from their compounds.
Israel’s pounding of Gaza has taken a toll on the politicians as well: The once media-friendly Hamas Cabinet has been meeting in secret and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh hasn’t been sighted since late January, breaking his routine of leading weekly prayers at a local mosque.
Hamas terrorists are running scared. They always beg for a cease-fire when Israel goes after the real cause of the rocket fire—the Hamas leadership. But the EU just handed Hamas a lifesaver, or so they think.
Zuhri also praised Thursday’s European Parliament resolution calling on Israel to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza and to halt IDF operations which endangering civilians, as well as targeted killings.
But what about the calls for Hamas to stop firing rockets into Israel?
He went on to say that the Kassam rocket attacks were a legitimate response to Israeli aggression.
“The problem is not with Hamas, the problem is with the occupation, its aggression and the siege imposed on our people in the Gaza Strip,” said Zuhri, adding “the EU parliament’s call is highly appreciated.”
Cause: EU Parliament passes highly biased resolution on the Gaza situation, indicates it will never stop the flow of European money into terrorist enclaves no matter what the terrorists do with that money.
Effect: Hamas, encouraged by its success, continues firing rockets into Israel.
One way to mitigate that cause and effect would be for Israel to ignore the EU resolution—which she shows all signs of doing—and continue the killing of Hamas and other terrorists.
Another way to mitigate that cause and effect? Well, that would be the people of Israel rallying around rocket-battered Sderot.
People from across Israel arrive in rocket-battered town to do their Shabbat shopping, show their support for residents. ‘It’s amazing, people have no idea how much this is helping local businesses,’ one Sderot resident says. Sderot mayor: The people have said ‘enough,’ the government can no longer take its time.
Europe has done enough damage to the Jewish people. Time to STFU and stop funding the terrorists. Not that I expect that to happen.