Israel’s Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter has denounced Europe’s hesitation in putting Lebanon’s Hezbollah on its terror list, branding debate on the issue as “almost a joke.”
“Asking if Hezbollah is a terror organization is like asking if Paris belongs to France,” he told reporters late Tuesday during a visit to France.
Bulgaria has said Hezbollah was responsible for the bombing of an Israeli tourist bus in July last year which claimed six lives.
“Who is sleeping?” he said. “Are we Israelis sleeping or are countries in Europe sleeping? There’s no debate.”
The United States had asked the European Union to follow it and put Hezbollah on its terror list but the issue is contested and requires a unanimous decision from the 27 member states.
“To speak about Hasan Nasrallah as someone who is only political is ridiculous,” the minister said, referring to the powerful leader of the party.
Dichter, in Paris to discuss the Bulgaria bombing with French officials, told Reuters the EU should blacklist Hezbollah because it also drew a large portion of its funds from European capitals and later laundered the money.
“Europe, that’s the real base of Hezbollah … If they [are not] able to gather money … in Europe, they are going to be in trouble,” he said, adding that the funding came from a network of charities and front companies.
In France, officials also say privately they are concerned that listing Hezbollah as a terrorist organization could destabilize Lebanon, where some 1,000 French peacekeeping troops are deployed following a reduction last year.
“I wish they [France] will be smart enough, brave enough to take a step without thinking how it’s going to affect the stability or the lack of stability in Lebanon,” said Dichter, a former director of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service.
#1 by Capt. Everette Murphy, USNR on February 22, 2013 - 8:27 pm
If Israel isn’t at the top of the world’s Terrorist list, then nobody else deserves to be on it. What a hypocritical JOKE!! Israel did 9-11 and many other false flag terror attacks, not to mention the USS Liberty, and they have the nerve to point the finger at anyone else???!!!
Israel deserves to be nuked. They are the world’s foremost terrorists.
#2 by annebeck58 on February 22, 2013 - 8:32 pm
Israhell may not be sleeping, but they are dreaming, if they consider Hezbollah a terrorist-org, but IOF not the same. Someone has to protect Lebanon, after all, from the animals at their border, and that someone has been Hezbollah.
Who do these “people” think they are? They get to decide international law, yet they also get to ignore it, constantly? It is always, it seems, upside-down day when it comes to them. Now, they want the rest of the world to go along with them on this lunacy? Well, perhaps the rest of the world is now seeing why Hezbollah/Hizbollah is necessary– and not evil, though we know who IZ.
#3 by Dave on February 22, 2013 - 11:14 pm
The PERFECT example of zionist controlled western media….
http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-biggest-lies-in-history10.htm
#4 by Dave on February 23, 2013 - 12:23 am
IDF Is a terrorist organization.
#5 by 1bigcree Shadowhawk on February 23, 2013 - 1:15 am
The JDL has been determined as a Terrorist Organization by the FBI. Then there’s the ADL, an arm of the Mossad. That is a given. Terrorists these are as well. The FSA now getting their backsides handed to them by the real Syrian resistance which will not allow the ‘Free Syrian Army’ to abduct and murder their leader Bashar al Assad; seems to emanate from various Arab Gulf States which are funding and supporting the terrorist private organization known as NATO. The terrorist Govt of the U.S. which provides billions of tax dollars to the terrorist illegitimate ‘State’ of ‘israel’ is without a doubt the biggest terrorist RICO on the planet. No the real terrorists are the hiding in plain sight. Yes Capt Murphy correctly states it. The terrorists who attacked the U.S. on 9// and on June 8th, 1967 off the coast of Al Arish are screeching about Hezbollah which kicked their sorry asses back in 2006. Hezbollah are true warrirors who stand for the people of Lebanon & Syria. We are not fooled by the howling & screeching by Avi Dichter, the deluded mouthpiece of Zion and terrorist hypocrite ‘State’ of terror. I would add this shitty little Country was spawned on terror in 1948 led by the terrorist Irgun Svai Leumi under the terrorist Menachem Begin, and the terrorist Haganah which was founded by the terrorist Bolshevik Jew Z’ev Jabotinski, and the terrorist Stern Gang led by the terrorists Avaral Stern and Yitzak Shamir. Let’s get it right; Zionist CONtrolled ‘Media’. Must you continue your blatant pathological lying in the face of the entire world who sees through your mask? PLEASE!!!!!
#6 by Blake on February 23, 2013 - 7:28 am
Zionist ideology is a joke – albeit a sick one.
#7 by Al on February 25, 2013 - 6:42 am
The best way or the first step to protest or fight against injustice or better to say against Israel can be done through American people. There won’t be any hope, as long as people are silent, inactive and brainwashed…
The first step is when people stop trusting and voting for these two corrupt parties (Republican & Democrat) and start protesting their government huge financial and military support of Israel. Unfortunately many people, even if are suffering but still don’t know the source of their pains or problems… This is the power or art of brainwashing or mind control in this country…
#8 by annebeck58 on February 25, 2013 - 6:37 pm
Here’s what I saw, Al, when working the bipartisan (well, open, as it included indies, too) presidential primary. It included every local and state office, too.
A certain number of people showed up to vote. In a Democratic district, the number who showed up to vote Rep was over ninety-percent. So, I’d say over 200 people chose the Republican ticket to vote on. When the numbers came out, only one-hundred votes were counted.
Of the people who showed up, at least two thirds said something that caused me to believe they were voting for Ron Paul. Some even said, “Ron Paul”, when asked which party. Yet, when I saw the numbers, only TEN were counted for Paul and almost all of the rest went to Romney.
Now, if someone can tell me,
1. WHY would ANY Democrat vote for Romney over Paul? If it was to vote for the, “loser”, would they not have voted Paul?
2. WHY were they so thrilled (some showed up even before the polls opened and waited to vote.) to vote Paul that they’d say his name, why would they change the last moment?
and, especially;
3. WHERE are the rest of the Republican votes??
We had sign-in tally sheets for these people. Why do the tally-sheets show so many more voting Rep than actually counted in the end?
For this, I absolutely believe our votes DO NOT COUNT. We can vote Indy all we want. I am sure it won’t matter.
Take a look at who owns the voting-machines and then tell people to go and vote.
It is ALL a scam. I am sad I wasted so much time in working toward changing things this season because it seems there is no way to change it any more.
*You can see my posts from June about the (s)election by clicking on my picture, here. It should take you to my blog– or just look up my name (which is my wordpress name, here.)
It’s why i say I don’t know how we can ever change this now. We’ve been made impotent, completely, and I see why some states stick with caucusing over primaries. It’s actually more difficult to change caucus votes, not that it doesn’t happen, either.