PA accuses Hezbollah of undermining peace process

[PLATO]

We have recalled our ambassador from Syria. And I thought Iran was next.

[Last Conformist]

Make Iraq invade Syria.

[dannubis]

This is a very good sign.

firts the pa doesn't put off all the responsibility towards the israeli's

and now the people of lebanon actually speak out against Syria.

these two things i think will achieve more than 20 invasions.

hope is flaring...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by dannubis
hope is flaring...

Maybe next the French will start to consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

[Dinner]

Chirac has to many Arab voters to consider to do something like that. He knows Hezbullah is nothing but a bunch of terrorists but he couldn't even admit the sky is blue without the French-Arabs turning on him.

[DinoDoc]

I dunno he has taken the heroic stand of saying that people should be able to work more hours to earn more money if they choose to do so. Saying that a terrorist group is a terrorist group doesn't seem to be a bridge too far.

[Zoid]

Of course Hizbollah is undermining the peace process. They´re islamist fundamentals that don´t want peace. You can´t talk to fundamentalists, you can only undermine their base of power. [misunderstanding edited out]

[pchang]

But Hezbollah's base of power is not the regular Palestinian people. That is the base of power for the Palestinian authority. Hebollah's base of power are Shiite fundamentalists from Iran.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
Of course Hizbollah is undermining the peace process. They´re islamist fundamentals that don´t want peace. You can´t talk to fundamentalists, you can only undermine their base of power. This is most easily done by giving the palestinians decent living conditions and hope for the future. If they see that life isn´t hopeless they´re not likely to be blowing themselves up on busses and whatnot, right?

Hezbollah != Palestinian terrorists

[dannubis]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Maybe next the French will start to consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

and maybe the US can stop interfering with matters that don't concern them. but since we both know that this is not going to happen we can best drop this line of thinking.

[Dry]

The discussion in the EU is about the political branch of the hamas (hezbollah?).

The position of France is that calling political Hamas terrorists would be counter-productive.

How I understand the position of France is:
Outlawing only the armed branch is sending the message to the Pals of
"You are allowed to be nationalist, but not through violence", while outlawing both branches would send the message "You are not allowed to be nationalist".
A little bit like Spain did with the ETA: split the political from the military branch. Allow nationalism, not armed nationalism.

The topic is rather old and regularly, US and/or Israel ask EU to add the political branch in the list.

Here is something from already 25 Aug, 2003:

The armed branch of Hamas is already on an EU black list of terrorist organizations, whose assets in EU countries are frozen. But the European governments are divided over whether to apply sactions against the political wing of Hamas, as demanded by Washington.

At a meeting in June a majority of EU states led by Britain and the Netherlands were in favour of further measures. But France in particular was against, arguing that it would be counter-productive to sideline the group.

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/030825161111.e620bfxv/

[Last Conformist]

Hamas != Hezbollah

The former is a Palestinian organization, the later a Lebanese one under strong Iranian influence.

[Zoid]

Damn, of course Hizbollah is lebanese... I really ought to pay more attention...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by dannubis

Maybe next the French will start to consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

we both know that this is not going to happen we can best drop this line of thinking.

Hope died.

[Tassadar500]

Are there any main differences between Hamas and Hezbollah, other than the country they originate from?