Jerusalem Post Hamas wants to "liberate the Palestinians," not to destroy Israel, Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
Let them demonstrate that by recognizing Israel and ceasing attacks on Israel.In an interview following his talks in Tel Aviv with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Solana insisted that it was "not impossible" for Hamas to change and "recognize the existence of Israel."
They certainly don't seem inclined to change.History had shown that people and nations "adapt to reality," he said. "I don't want to lose hope."
You probably do not understand what threat Europe is under either.Pressed as to whether he was underestimating the fundamentalist religious imperative at the heart of the Hamas ideology, Solana said, "I cannot imagine that the religious imperative, the real religious imperative, can make anybody destroy another country... Therefore that is an abuse of religion...
What is new there?"I don't think the essence of Hamas is the destruction of Israel. The essence of Hamas is the liberation of the Palestinians," he added. "The liberation of their people, not the destruction of Israel."
2 comments:
How do these idiots get promoted to positions of real power in the UN?
Mr. Solana knows nothing of the situation in Israel.
While anybody with good intentions is welcome in trying to defuse the situation between Israel and some of its neighbors, Mr. Solana is too ignorant of the history and reasoning (or lack thereof) behind the Palestinian problem.
Europe has sent a fool as an envoy.
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