1. The EU’s Standards of Enlightened Governments. Turks vs. Palestinians [1/18/2005] #11444
European yardsticks for Turkey, a peaceful country, joining the EU – demand [of Turkey] far-reaching political and social reform “on the ground”, and 10 to 15 years of negotiations while Turks prove democratic change is “irreversible.”
European yardsticks for Palestinians, a hostile society, joining the Family of Nations - amounts to praise for fabricated non-existent reforms and calls to drop the required incremental progress from the Road Map. End to violence and democratic reform, that Palestinians haven’t even begun is tolerable – all in order to forge the way for immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, one which will endanger the very survival of a free and democratic Israel.
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| Eli E. Hertz | Europa.eu |  |
| http://middleeastfacts.org/Cache/doc/icj/Turks-Palestinian-and- the-EU -01-18-05-H.htm () |   
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2. All Publications on Turkey [11/11/2006] Ref #11869
Washington Insitute, Turkey,
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| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | |
| http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateS03.php?SID=12&contentType= Publications () |
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3. Solana: UN vote on fence was 'victory of EU policy' [11/5/2006] Ref #11866
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana sees last week's vote by the Europeans on a United Nations resolution on the West Bank separation fence as the victory of the coherence and efficiency of Europe's foreign and defense policy.
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| HAARETZ | |
| http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=6407 () |
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4. No limits to hypocrisy [11/3/2006] Ref #11852
"Mountainous ingratitude" ran the headline on the front page of one of the London tabloids a few days ago. The reference was, of course, to the policy of France and Germany, and some of their other European hangers-on, of obstructing American attempts to prevent Saddam Hussein from possessing non-conventional weapons.
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| HAARETZ | |
| http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtWar.jhtml?itemNo=263973&contra ssID=33&subContrassID=3&sbSubContrassID=0 () |
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5. Fischer meets Arafat in Ramallah, consults with Abu Mazen [11/3/2006] Ref #11861
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer eased the diplomatic siege on Yasser Arafat on Wednesday, meeting the Palestinian Authority Chairman in his Ramallah office, Israel Radio reported.
Fischer was consulting with newly-appointed PA Prime Minister Abu Mazen early Wednesday afternoon.
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| HAARETZ | |
| http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=282317&sw=Joshka +Fisher () |
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6. In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel [11/3/2006] Ref #11864
In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel
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| Israel-mfa.gov.il | |
| http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0iky0 () |
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7. Europe and the Middle East [11/2/2006] Ref #11847
Europe has always had a special political and economic relationship with the Middle East, dating back to colonial times. "Access to Middle Eastern oil has always been a major factor in Europe's relationship with the Arab and Muslim world."
Today, Europe maintains significant economic interests in the Arab and Muslim world and continues to enjoy easy and preferential access to the agricultural products of its former colonies. In exchange,
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| ADL | |
| http://www.adl.org/international/EU-2-EuropeMiddleEast.asp () |
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8. Islamic Europe? [11/2/2006] Ref #11851
SELDOM HAS THE COURSE of European history been changed by a non-politician's throwaway remark in a German-language newspaper on a Wednesday in the dead of the summer doldrums. But on July 28, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis told the conservative Hamburg-based daily Die Welt that Europe would be Islamic by the end of this century "at the very latest," and continental politics has not been the same since.
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| Weekly Standard | |
| http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685o zxcq.asp?pg=2 () |
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9. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership [11/2/2006] Ref #11853
Israel fully participates in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, both in its bilateral and its regional dimension. The Association Agreement between Israel and the European Union was signed in 1995 and is in force since June 2000. Within its framework, senior officials from Israel and the EU meet regularly and an Association Council takes place once a year in order to discuss political, economic, and cultural cooperation.
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| http://www.eu-del.org.il/english/content/eu_and_country/2.asp () |
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10. Israel and the EU [11/1/2006] Ref #11843
Israeli relations with the states of Western Europe have been conditioned by European desires to further their own commercial interests and ties with the Arab world and their heavy dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Europeans have provided political support for Arab states and the Palestinian cause, even though Europe has served as the battleground for Arab and Palestinian terrorist groups. For example, beginning in the early 1970s, the ministers of foreign affairs of the European Community called for Israel to withdraw from territories occupied during the June 1967 War, expressed "reservations" over the 1978 Camp David Accords, and accepted the "association" of the PLO in solving the Palestinian problem.
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| ABC News | |
| http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/israel/israel134.htm () |
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