Jewish lobbying sways EU against support of Goldstone Gaza report

This is sad news for Israel, although they would never see it that way. What a shame, I expect the U.S.to remain in denial of Bush/Cheney war crimes too. When any country can do as they please, and not be held accountable for their criminal activity, the frequency of crimes will continue. Shame on the EU for caving.

I am surprised that only 50% of the students were effected by the violence directed against their state and people by those whose upbringing includes consistent and virulent hatred of the Jew.

As a further testimony to the spring of your crude world view: According to the latest survey among Jewish pupils in Israel, they get their racism implanted early in live. 50% of them are against equal rights for Arabs in Israel.

The sloppy work style seems to be spreading everyhwere, first the Mossad, now the Jewish lobbies.

Think Lieberman managed to tip the balance? Was it Dubai? Maybe that last-minute approval of the East Jerusalem housing? Yep, I'd say your lobbying was pretty effective. Of course, let's not forget 'Cast Lead' itself -- none of it could have happened at all without that. I guess just call it a team effort. Prizes all around.

America has listened and acted to assist the victim - the revival of the Jewish State - for 61+ years of attempts by the Arabs to destroy it.America has understood the barbarism and hatred of those whose energies and efforts were not used to build their own nation but to destroy another - the Jewish State.America has heard and witnessed its defense of nation,its pride of equal justice,generosity of spirit and treasure in helping other nations in need of assistance, and its contributions to its enemies.So long as the Arab countries continue their hate-mongering and unbridled explosive loathing against the existence of the Jewish State, no peace will be achieved. Your views against Israel's defense of nation are no different from your German occupiers' policy towards the Jews.You have learned your lessons well,but they will not lead to peace,but to continued violence and the end of any chance for a viable Palestinian state.

Ole J.r. Goldstone doesn't need the Christian lobby to speak for Jesus. Jesus Himself is running him out of town and he will become a shell of himself for standing against his people Israel. Repent J.R. and Jesus will forgive you and perhaps remind you of the bride of your youth and stand still and let God love you!

Support of the Goldstone Report seems to attract anti-semites and/or anti-Israeli types like flies to sh*t. And that is how it should be - let them enjoy the feast!

...after all.

# 20 nina, "Why didn't your government build any shelters" The answer: Although not very palatable for everyone's taste. Their leaders,Haniyah & Azhar from Gaza live in luxury palaces & don't give a damn about their subjects. Except of course to brain-wash them & promise them 72 virgins (all, or one at a time they didn't say !) But this only after they blow themselves to smitheerens. Now you get it. Nina ?

Shows that America is more easily pushed around.

whole world . We own the oilfields of Arabia , we provide Islamic terrorists with money and logistics , we promote hatred and demise throughout the formerly free world ....... Of course we own the governments of the whole world . All of this is not antisemitism , it is true . Even During the Protocol they knew the truth , did not they ? You are soooo smart .

The Goldstone report is being discredited by most who knows or willing to see the facts . Haaretz does a good job to unfairly blemish interests of Israel .

Maybe it was simply not a credible piece of investigation and failed an objective analysis.

Israel needs Europe more than Europe needs Israel; everyone should stop caring about Israel's thin skin; it is thin for a reason afterall. Israel should have to earn the respect of the West, it should not have it by default. All of this unconditional support is spoiling Israel, is exacerbating the divide between the West and other parts of the world, especially Islamic ones, and is dimming prospects for a successful peace process.

They are not going to be immune like the American leadership either. If they can't stand up to Israel's crimes against Gazans they deserve the pending public outcry that's coming their way as a result...People aren't going to let those war crimes go...... They have a moral responsibility towards the victims and their families to rein in the wrong doings and war criminals in Israel. Dutch

Perhaps Europe "caved" (or in what others' might characterize more as "paid attention" to the "tiny country" simply because it actually IS a country with legal status no different from that of any other country with legal status. It is the same status you and your people have been able to clain every day since 1947 but have yet to do and, the clear reason for that seems to be that you'd rather supplant that tiny country's legal staus than achieve your own. It's a real shame.Stop blaming the people who accepted what the UN did and start blaming your own leaders for the vastness of the nothing they have ever achieved on your peoples' behalf.

It's nice to hear that our own people support us in Europe. Good for them! They should go from strength to strength.

europe has become so corrupt and pathetic. how could they give in to a tiny nation at the expense of human rights and principles?

I'm against killing civilians on both sides, jewa and Arabs. I support the end of the conflict based on the two states for two people formula.

I don't agree with most of our leaders, I support ending the conflict based on the two states solution, both sides must provide compromises. But there are no justifications for killing civillians on both sides.

I didn't vote for Hamas, I concider myself liberal. We don't have any shalters in Gaza, why I don't know, the British during there occupation didn't build one, not the Egaptian or the Israeli

knowledge of justice would have done after his public expression of his prejudices prior to undertaking his investigation. Chinkin is/was a travesty with her prejudgment.

To claim that Mr Kantor has such a large degree of influence is to open up more Pandora's boxes than any beneficial outcome resulting from the EP new deffered decision. It gives the name of Ashkenazit influence an agenda. When the previous Jewish French Congress Head(of North African origines) was in charge, the Israeli media ignored his presence, and made sure that it added its "influence" to have Mr. Kantor to be elected to head the Congress, who as a Russian Jew, has no affinity to the large Sephardic community of Europe. Europe is following its own twisted interest, and it wanted to create an opportunity to have a quiproquo from Israel, in order to deffere the Goldstone implementation. Europe is too cynical to follow the Christians Americans for Israel, who really have their heart in their deeds. Anyway, Haaretz will jump in any bandwagon that gives to the Ashkenazic presence some semblance of importance. Just look at the Spanish, French and Italian Jewish Elites, they are most

how no one feels sorry for the Gazawi. I read like 10 excuses for Israel's brutality.

Perhaps the answer is that the Pals 'leaders' don't value their own people and their leaders run like rats from a sinking ship. The scenario just highlights the foolish plans that the Pals incorporated, kill the Jews and who cares if the pals aren't protected, especially by their 'leaders.' It would seem the pals are only used as fodder, shields, or excuses for hostilities that get them killed while their leaders run like hell. No wonder they fail repeatedly, losers and idiots going for money while their people suffer.

To be pro-palestniam does not mean blindingly following every stance of the palestinians or the arab-league. Ane let us for once speak about the arab-lobby and it's political insrument the Green and socilist parties. It is so in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland nd of course scandinavia.

before they started launching rockets? And why didn't you build yourself one after Gaza voted 70% for a government which promised to make war?

when you wake up from your coma dino think of libra and the scales !

to be a friend of israel does not mean that europe has to be blackmailed and forced to condone crimes committed by the idf during "cast lead" invasion of gaza.

....fellow Jews, at least as long as they aren't using "dirty tactics" (as AIPAC obviously has done in the U.S. over the past decades), that are doing nothing but reinforce old anti- Jewish stereotypes. And if you lobby for your fellow Jews in Israel, then please have the guts to also admit it, and not immediately attack people, if they are suggesting that you are doing so. Please start doing it openly, it has much more advantages, if you are doing so, than disadvantages.... P.S. Whether it really is a smart thing for Diaspora Jews to support (right-wing) Israel, if they really care about Israels future as a mainly Jewish state, would be a very different question, but then we would get into the territory of "wisdom".....

Next time I hear any swiss person wanting to interfere into Eu policies i will tell them to build minarets all over their alps first and keep all their guest workers inside the borders for ever! Hippocrite!

...but on this issue they won the argument.

Dino,what about to say the same to Arab leaders, and all the moslim world not to intervene in Israel- Palestinian problems. Jews are defending jews , and Arabs are defending Arabs. Or in your view, fair is only if Arabs are defending Arabs?

Might one imagine how those whom lobby from places afar how they might experience that which you have observed directed towards them. Just how would the Israeli poltical class strategise should both sides be equally armed. Therein lies the injustice. Wherein people whom have in effect caged a community fire into the cage and claim it as a given right. The Jewish lobby would be non-existent if peace prevailed. They are attached to keeping the status quo in situ so as to justify their existence. At the same time the Israeli economy has been affected by not exploiting the desire to work from Palestinians. Let alone money wasted building walls.

Dear friend, It was not Israel who started this war. Imagine Gaza on Russia border and 7000 Quassam rockets firing towards Russia. If this had happened, Gaza would have been totally destroyed. Believe me Hamas is trouble-maker.

The Goldstone report dose not need to be implemented, it has done more than enough damage to the image of Israel by using the word "war crimes". there is absolutely nothing the state of Israel can do now to erase that.

"The only thing Hamas was able to do was the lunching of rockets toward Israeli territories" Poor Hamas men were having rockets for lunch....so they couldn't have launched any rockets

Sorry guys, but just can't have it both ways, either you control (or at least heavily influence) U.S. and EU foreign policy on the ME, or you don't. Fair enough, if you do, but then I would politely ask Abe Foxman and Jewish leaders in Europe to shut up next time, if people/ politicians dare to publicly speak out on that obvious fact....

those jews who are still member of a socialist party should dismiss or be considered as traitors, jewish funding of political parties should exclude socialist parties in the same way as extreme right wing parties aso. socialism has become a new form of antisemitism for the sole sake of attracting muslim electorate. socialism has lost its soul (insofar as it ever had one).

does hamas do anything wrong? if you live in Gaza and like your head i supposed i'd stay a stupid mute too. palestinian terror and intolerance and muslim terror and intolerance are a daily fact. Israel takes care to defend itself for 60 years against arab attacks. look at the history of Israel and it's neighbors and it's obvious that the Arab aggressors desire wants to destroy Israel not make peace.

Universe, how about thousands of Palestinian prisoners? and how about the war crimes? who cares about the international law, and who cares about any human rights.

This is like AIPAC in America. The Jewish Lobby in Europe is happy to boast of its power when it wants to, but if a critic of Israel suggests the Jewish lobby in the US or EU is seriously affecting policy towards Israel they're often accused loudly of anti-semitism and blood libels and Protocols of Zion.

See David, Gilad is just one person while the people in Gaza are roughly 1,500,000. Now it is true that they are just Palestinians, so between you and me of course 1,500,000 of them doesn't equal one Israeli. But people out there in the world are so indoctrinated into thinking that they can use any excuse they want to make themselves think that their own side is the righteous side. Here's the problem: in some rural areas of Europe the local population got these ideas about human rights and equality (even for different ethnicities!). It is this kind of backward thinking that leads the EU to do more for the 1,500,000 people in Gaza than for one Israeli soldier. Even though we have every right to expect international bodies to devote their time to every individual that is in distress rather than focusing on the large issues, the Anti-Semitism in Europe is keeping the EU from doing that. And that's the explanation why the EU is using more time on Gaza than Gilad.

I witnessed the Israeli war on Gaza; I was there during the war. Israel used every thing in its arsenal: F16, unmanned air planes, tanks, artillery, gun boats and soldiers who didn’t hesitate to shoot at civilians. The only thing Hamas was able to do was the lunching of rockets toward Israeli territories. We were scared with no shelters for protection; it’s not fair, that Israel will not be punished for its war crimes against the civilians of Gaza.

On the ever returning demand from various quarters of the European Union and others about the "lifting of Gaza's bockade" I wonder that these very same people and/or organisations do not demand with equal ferocity the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. Hypocracy at it best....

My analysis of the Goldstone Report: "For he's a jolly good fella - and so say all of us" - This makes the report balanced?