| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| EU appeal to keep Hamas on terror list 'immoral' |
| 2015-01-20 |
| [ARABNEWS] Paleostinian movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, slammed as "immoral" Monday an EU appeal to keep it on the bloc's terror blacklist, a month after a European court ordered its removal. "The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's insistence on keeping Hamas on the list of terrorist organizations is an immoral step, and reflects the EU's total bias in favor of the Israeli occupation," Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... told AFP. "It provides it (Israel) with the cover for its crimes against the Paleostinian people," he added. Foreign ministers from the 28 EU member states decided at a Monday meeting to appeal the decision taken by the General Court of the European Union on December 17, the bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said. The ruling by the EU's second highest court had said that the blacklisting of Hamas in 2001 was based not on sound legal judgments but on conclusions derived from the media and the Internet. Hamas, which has dominated the Gazoo Strip since 2007, had appealed against its inclusion on the blacklist on several grounds. |
| Posted by:Fred |