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European-Mediterranean Summit Ends With a Murmur
Los Angeles Times
Nov
29,2005 - By Tracy Wilkinson
BARCELONA, Spain — With most Muslim leaders staying away, a summit of European
and Mediterranean nations floundered badly on the critical point of defining
terrorism and instead concluded Monday with a watered-down "code of conduct"
and a vague plan for the region's other urgent issue, immigration.
The two-day meeting convened delegations from 25 European nations, Israel and
nine Muslim governments ringing the Mediterranean. Only two of the
non-European invitees — Turkey and the Palestinian Authority — sent their top
official.
The summit's inability to reach more meaningful agreement reflected the
profound difficulties in bridging the gap between the two worlds that came
together here.
At what point - are European leaders willing to accept
the truth about Islam's unreasonable demands? to allow 'terrorism' when it
suits Islam? terrorism that can NEVER be justified - thereby exposing that
which the Islamic world worships...
Which is precisely why they didn't show up
Defining terrorism was the biggest hurdle. Arab countries wanted to exempt from
condemnation resistance to "foreign occupation," a reference to the action of
Palestinian militants. ...and Chechen 'militants'
and Bosnian 'militants' and all of the other 'militants' worldwide who use the
same reasons for their brutal attacks. It is '''their Duty''' -
'allah' says so Israel and several European countries
wanted an explicit statement that terrorism can never be justified by any cause.
In the end, both sides had to drop their demands to salvage a statement
at the last minute.
Both sides? One side didn't even show up. {And that
speaks VOLUMES!
In the final document, delegates agreed to "condemn terrorism in all its
manifestations" and to pledge their "determination to eradicate it," including
through prevention of access to arms and money. But they did not go beyond
that.
Spain, the host country, and Britain, the co-host because it currently holds the
presidency of the European Union, sought to put the best face on Monday's
results. As recent victims of bombing attacks by Islamic radicals, they wanted
terrorism high on the summit's agenda.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said at a news conference that the final
declaration was "as strong a statement as you could possibly have on a unified
determination to fight terrorism in all its forms." Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the so-called Code of Conduct was energetic and
unprecedented.
But the other side didn't show up!
It was up to one of the smaller participants to give a more subdued assessment.
"The Euro-Mediterranean summit has been faced with the reality of the space in
which it functions," Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa told his country's
news agency. He said he was sorry to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
overshadow all other pressing issues.
An unreasonable demand made by the world of Islam.
Unreasonable - because the god of Islam never even mentioned the name
Palestine.....a
name that comes from the one and only - Hebrew Bible.
The desperation of the summit hosts to achieve agreement, any agreement, was
revealed during a break in deliberations. A microphone had been left on near
Zapatero, and a top aide complained to him that the Israelis were intractable
and that the other members were "ready to throw in the towel."
Zapatero responded: "We must close this! Any way possible!"
The decision of most non-European leaders to send lower-level delegations
diminished what had been high hopes for the summit, which was intended to be the
first gathering of top representatives of the Euro-Mediterranean group formed a
decade ago with the goal of creating a free-trade zone by 2010. In that time,
the EU has spent about $23 billion in aid, loans and other projects in
neighboring nations to the south.
Absent leaders offered various reasons for staying home. Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak cited elections. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he had
to attend to a political crisis triggered by his departure from the Likud Party.
But because the conference lasted barely 36 hours, and its location on the
Mediterranean meant most leaders could have traveled here in a few hours, some
observers said the excuses rang hollow.
Diplomats and analysts suggested instead that the Muslim leaders were not keen
to hear European lectures on democratic reform, the need for elections and
women's rights, all issues that were to be on the agenda. They wanted to see
development issues at the top of the program, not terrorism.
"development issues" for Islam
The absences suggest that Europe, long seen as a greater ally to the Muslim
world than the pro-Israel U.S., might be losing some of its influence.
Immigration is another issue that highlights the profound differences between
the wealthy European nations, which receive the bulk of the region's illegal
immigrants, and the poorer nations that send them. While Europe gives priority
to policing to stop the flow, the countries to Europe's south want more
economic aid to create jobs and improve conditions at home.
Users -
who spend that aid on bombs and who have absolutely no intentions of
putting a stop to it. Their absence said it the loudest.
The final statement reflected none of the urgency that might have been expected
given recent incidents in which mostly African immigrants have been killed
scaling barbed-wire fences or braving the Mediterranean in rickety boats to
reach Europe. {where the 'fruits' of Islam
are BRUTALIZING everyone
It calls for a five-year plan to reduce illegal immigration and crack down on
human traffickers while "promoting legal immigration opportunities."
2Jo 1:10
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine
of Peace - of Christ],
receive him not into your house, neither bid
him God speed.
2Jo 1:11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his
evil deeds. - they have blood on their hands
The fruits of Islam showed NO
mercy to the Beslan school children. European leaders STILL refuse to
accept responsibility for the excuses they continue to make for
the lie that
"Islam is a religion of peace"
Muslim Nations Skip Meeting With Europe
New York Times
Nov 28, 2005 - By RENWICK McLEAN
BARCELONA,
Spain, Nov. 27 - In a summit meeting marked as much by who was not there
as who was, the European Union opened a two-day conference here on Sunday
aimed at renewing its commitment to developing and democratizing Muslim
nations on the Mediterranean's southern rim.
Many of the North African and Middle
Eastern leaders who had agreed to come to the meeting announced last week that
they could not attend. Their absence weakens European claims that their
approach to the Muslim world - based on economic development, dialogue,
strengthening the rule of law, and other forms of soft power - has greater
credibility with the region's leaders than what they see as the Bush
administration's more aggressive approach.
The conference was intended to bring
together heads of state and government and other senior officials from all 25
members of the European Union, Israel and a dozen Muslim countries, including
Egypt, Syria, Algeria, Jordan and Morocco.
But despite initial indications they
would attend, many of the top leaders from those countries stayed away, like
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who cited domestic political concerns; King
Mohammed VI of Morocco, who said he had business in Japan; and President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, who was reported to be seeking medical
treatment in France.
European leaders sought to play down
the absence of their North African and Middle Eastern counterparts on Sunday,
saying that the reasons appeared unrelated to the conference. "These
leaders have different reasons for not coming," said Prime Minister Tony
Blair of Britain. "But I'm sure we'll have a good conference nonetheless."
A
meeting that didn't require much travel to be there;
a meeting that - for once - did not have development issues at the
top of the program, but rather - terrorism.
And they
were no where to be found
The conference is intended to
revitalize a European Union initiative known as the Barcelona process,
established here 10 years ago with the goal of replicating in the Muslim world
some of the European Union's procedures for integrating Central and Eastern
European countries.
So far -
Islam has been the ONLY recipient of any dividends - in every way
"One of the big objectives in
Europe right now is closer ties with this region," said Jorge Rosa de
Oliveira, an adviser to Prime Minister José Sócrates of Portugal. "It is
important that we take joint action on immigration, terrorism and a number of
issues."
In many ways, the Bush
administration, another no-show in Barcelona, has done as much to shape the
discussions here as the participants.
The European
leaders just don't get it. If ever there was a sucker - these ones prove
beyond all doubt - that there is.
004.101
When ye travel
through the earth, there is no blame on you
[Muslims] if ye
shorten your prayers, for fear the Unbelievers
[non-Muslims] May attack you: For
'''the Unbelievers''' are unto you open enemies.
A number of European academics, in
studies and newspaper columns, and diplomats, speaking on the condition of
anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the subject publicly,
have described the meeting as a chance to offer these nations a compelling
alternative to the American approach, which they characterize as aggressive
diplomacy and military intervention.
Meanwhile....
009.005
fight and slay
the Pagans ''''wherever''''
ye find them
throughout the earth}
004.100, and seize them, beleaguer them, and
lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.
008.067
It is not fitting for a prophet that he should have prisoners of war
[slay them all first]
until he hath thoroughly subdued the land.
Much of the discussion at the
meeting was expected to focus on terrorism, and European leaders have been
stressing that the conference was an opportunity for Muslim countries to join
them in forcefully condemning it. But initial efforts to develop a common
statement on terrorism have been hobbled by disagreements over how to define
it, with some Muslim leaders eager to differentiate between terrorism and what
they see as legitimate resistance to a foreign military presence in places
like Iraq, the European diplomats said.
Meanwhile...
The skeletons of unborn babies and toddlers clutching toys are being
unearthed from another mass grave -
of the many mass graves
270 mass graves have been reported
The crap
that was taking place in Iraq was NO secret while it was happening. This
world chose to ignore the cries that came from there. And the Islamic world
has the GALL to criticize the US military? the Islamic world who didn't lift
a finger nor a voice to help their own babies and children??? and are STILL
ranting and raving about those who put a stop to the viciousness?
And now -
the rest of the world can see - just where they do stand on wicked barbaric
means. No shows - to put a stop to Islamic 'terrorism'
In comes
CAIR - who claims they want to
'help' the West to
'better' understand Islam?
Let CAIR
take one good long look - - - in the mirror!
The 10-year-old Barcelona initiative
is one of the European Union's most ambitious foreign policy proposals, and
one of its few enduring examples of a collective approach to foreign affairs.
But it is widely considered a disappointment so far.
{If they had taken the time to sit down - in a
meeting - to consider seriously what the Koran does teach - not a one of them
would be 'disappointed' at this late date
Critics have derided the initiative
as overly ambitious, too expensive and excessively lenient in the
conditions it places on the developing countries that want to receive aid.
How many
'original' - 'common' Europeans agree to paying that bill?
The absence of the non-European
leaders here is a significant barrier to making headway on many of the most
complicated issues on the agenda.
{Complicated - because they make it complicated - for the love of money]
Progress on creating a regional free trade zone, for
example, relies largely on resolving bilateral disputes between countries in
the Muslim region of the Mediterranean, according to European officials.
1Ti 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith of Peace,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
On immigration, the Europeans have
been stressing the need to toughen border controls to slow the flow of
migrants from North Africa, while Muslim nations have focused on the need to
open markets and increase economic aid to help them create jobs that will help
keep their residents at home. {A testament - that
Islam's politics don't provide for the good of all
Muslim leaders didn't show up - because, money to be
had
was not at
the top of the agenda - but rather -
a meeting
for them clean up their bloody act
putting the
actual cause of 'terrorism' on the
hot seat
by demanding
they make that choice
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