Gus, I have been silent on your assertions that Europe is more detrimental to Palestinian Arabs than US...Europe is largely irrelevant on the issue, as they tend to cave-in rather than take a principled position (either USSR/detente talks, Balkans or Middle East, they are spineless..However they do despise Arabs and fear Islam more than US...Surely they will double-cross Arabs when they can...Arafat will be ditched soon you think?
reuters.com
At the news conference, the leader of the EU delegation, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, spoke of a decrease, rather than a cessation, of violence as a way to move forward.
"The European Union wants the Palestinian Authority to do all it can to put terrorists in jail and to reduce the level of violence," Verhofstadt said.
"And that must allow the government of Israel to start to implement Tenet and Mitchell," Verhofstadt said, referring to a cease-fire agreement mediated by U.S. CIA chief George Tenet and the broader peace plan that followed.
Powell did not refer on television to Sharon's demand for seven days of calm, but reiterated that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat "needs to make a 100 percent effort to end all the violence, and we need to see results that reflect that 100 percent effort." |
