Israeli PM calls Europe naive for taking Hamas off terror list

December 18, 2014 03:21

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the European Union today for removing Hamas from its terrorist list, calling it a staggering example of European hypocrisy and an indication that many on the continent have learned nothing from the Holocaust.

The European Union court order to remove Hamas from the EU terrorist list came the same day as a United Nations body in Europe delivered a stinging rebuke to Israel's settlement construction in the West Bank and called for Israel to be investigated for war crimes.

"Today we witnessed a series of examples of European naivety and, may I add, hypocrisy," Netanyahu said before an audience of international journalists in Jerusalem.

"They point to the spirit of appeasement in Europe of the very forces that threaten Europe itself. Too many in Europe are calling on Israel to make concessions that would endanger not only the security of Israel but also paradoxically the security of Europe itself, because Israel is the forward position of European civilization. Israel is the bulwark of European values."

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