Racist, anti-Semitism, defies logic, blatant bias, 'hook, line and sinker,', vilification and demonization campaign directed against the State of Israel...
How dare those savage Europeans are! And how stupid the poll is! We will kick the European Union out of the peace talk!
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Wiesenthal Center 'Outraged' By Poll Calling Israel a Threat
Last Update: 02/11/2003 01:23
By Amiram Barkat. Haaretz Correspondent and AP
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called for
excluding the European Union from
Israel-Palestinian peace talks after reports of a
new poll showing many Europeans consider Israel
the top threat to world peace.
The organization said it was
outraged at published reports
that 59 percent of 7,500
Europeans surveyed called
Israel a larger threat to
world peace than North Korea
or Iran.
Wiesenthal Center dean Rabbi
Marvin Hier said the result
"defies logic and is a racist flight of fantasy
that only shows that anti-Semitism is deeply
embedded within European society, more than any
other period since the end of World War II."
The survey, first reported by the Spanish
newspaper El Pais, has not yet been released.
Its main result was reported Friday by the
International Herald-Tribune, which cited a
source at the European Commission. Full results
are to be released by the European Commission
tomorrow.
"This poll is an indication that Europeans have
bought in, 'hook, line and sinker,' to the
vilification and demonization campaign directed
against the State of Israel and her supporters
by European leaders and media," Hier said in
the statement posted on the Wiesenthal Center
Web site.
He said that if the reports are accurate,
"Israel should draw the only conclusion
possible - that the European Union and its
members should play no role in any future peace
process."
The Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal Center also
asked supporters to sign an Internet petition
to European Commission President Romano Prodi
saying Europe's "blatant bias" disqualifies it
from peace talks.
Minister Natan Sharansky, responsible for the
Diaspora and Jerusalem affairs, said Saturday
that the poll results prove anti-Semitism lurks
behind European political criticism on Israel.
"Just like in the past when the Jew was blamed
for all the problems of the world, the
'enlightened' world today uses that same claim
about the Jewish state. The European Union must
work to stop the demonization of Israel before
Europe deteriorates back to its dark past."
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