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Beeb - EU Humanitarian chief blames Hamas

JD | 26.01.2009 18:53

BBC reports that EU Humanitarian aid chief Louis Michel has said Hamas bore "overwhelming responsibility" for what has happened in Gaza. This helps them justify the decision not to support any appeals of aid to Gaza.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7851545.stm

EU envoy lays Gaza blame on Hamas

A senior European Union official touring war-torn Gaza has blamed the ruling militant movement Hamas for the humanitarian crisis there.
Humanitarian aid chief Louis Michel called the destruction left by Israel's offensive "abominable", but said Hamas bore "overwhelming responsibility".
He said there would be no dialogue with with the "terrorist" movement until it gave up violence and recognised Israel.

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insane

26.01.2009 19:51

is the bbc mad??????????

dont they know how much rockets cost these days????????????????

shut the beeb down

Lunacy

26.01.2009 20:42

Here's a quote: -

"At this time we have to also recall the overwhelming responsibility of Hamas,"

I have never heard anything quite so ludicrous. The overwhelming responsibility belongs to Hamas, rather than the people who dropped the bombs? If someone decided to say that the overwhelming responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the resistance fighters of the Warsaw ghettos they could get locked up in some EU countries. Yet here is an EU spokesman saying very similar things, it is duplicitous in the extreme, insensetive and offensive!

He also harps on about Hamas being a terrorist organisation (rather than the democratically elected representatives of Palestine).

This is yet another Israeli apologist shill, voicing his opinions on a stage that has shown where it's loyalties lie. I really don't see why I should have to pay a TV licence to pay for this bollocks any more.

Hasbara Barbera

I've seen that

26.01.2009 20:58

Disgusting.

I guess he gets paid with sex from kidnapped children for doing that.

He's got the profile for it.

rotten to the core

blame game

26.01.2009 21:35

Well, first of all, this is obviously another example of the BBC's Israeli bias if there ever was one...

Sure this Belgium MP, Luis Michel, is a major idiot for a number of reasons... Any novice knows that if you are on a diplomatic mission, you are sure-as-hell not going to help anyone by publically cursing one of the parties you are supposedly dealing with. By the way, some EU countries do talk with HAMAS, like Sweden:

http://english.people.com.cn/200605/03/eng20060503_262744.html

That aside, CONTRARY to the BBC's headline, Luis Michel is quoted as saying two things:

That the Israeli attack was "abominable", and that Hamas bore "overwhelming responsibility" - responsibility for WHAT is never named...

But GUESS WHICH statement made it as a BBC headline...
EU (not Luis Michel) LAYS GAZA BLAME ON HAMAS

The headline could just have well read:
EU CALLS ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA ABOMINABLE.

There you go, screw BBC.
Cancel your license.

FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE!

ninetto

E-Mail Louis

26.01.2009 21:42

Below is the e-mail address of Louis Michel. Let's ask him some questions and remeber to post a copy opf the e-mail on here. This way we will know if we get any reply and if so if they are standard bullsh*t!

Louis.Michel@ec.europa.eu

EMAILER

Biased Bullshit Conspiracy

26.01.2009 22:15

This creep Louis has one or two titles not surprising that he is working for the United Masons, did I say the UN ... he must look well cool with all his medals on, most of them are Maltese Crosses or similar.
They go well with the Apron and rolled up trouser leg ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Michel

Titles

In 1995, he was appointed Minister of State, an honorific title given to prominent Belgian politicians.

* Knight, Officer and Commander in the Order of Léopold
* Médaille civique de la classe
* Grand-Croix de l'ordre Royal Suédois de l'Etoile Polaire
* Grand-Croix de l'ordre "Infante Dom Henrique"
* Grand-Cross in the Order of Orange-Nassau
* Grand-Cross in the Order of Isabella the Catholic
* Grand-Cross in the Order of Dannebrog
* Grand-Croix de l'ordre de l'Honneur
* Grand-Croix de l'ordre de l'Etoile de la Roumanie
* Grand officer in the Order of the Pléiade (Ordre de la Francophonie et du dialogue des cultures; that is, "Order of the Francophonie and of the dialogue of cultures")
* Grand Officer in the Légion d'honneur
* Grand Cordon de l'ordre du Mérite
* Ordre "Stara Planina" de 1ère classe

Media Luvvy

Psyop

26.01.2009 22:36

The Beeb reports quite fairly the overall tone nevertherless cos that scum of corrupt Brussel technocrat says he's got a point to make by saying Hamas are terrorists. He is very insistant on Hamas. That seems actually the whole point of it. Laying the blame on Hamas and demonizing them further. All this with the aura of being an humanitarian guy, ie not a politician.

Not to say that the beeb aren't biased cos they are of course.

At any rate it shows that the humanitarian aid, which is certainly necessary, is also a conduct for further anti-palestinian warfare, cos, besides this psyop, they are going to try inject, along with the aid, a maximum of scumbags like him into the strip, for sure.

Blackop

Found that about Louis Michel

26.01.2009 23:02

"Louis Michel is long notorious for his involvement in Belgian pedophile and prostitution rings in kidnapping and trafficking in children.

....

Remember how foreign NGOs and aid workers turned Cambodia into a brothel?

I'm for keeping Belgians out of Burma. And for watching each and every aid worker like a hawk."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/board/thaipol/view.php?id=1557&offset=0

must be true

A pic of the scum with notorious war criminals

26.01.2009 23:19

War criminals

Miss Piggy

Heckled by Congolese activists in London

27.01.2009 23:19

What I quickly gather from sites in french is that he is accused of behaving like he was the king of congo and of diverting several billion dollars towards armed groups responsible for ethnic cleansing and genocide having claimed up to 8 million victims.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx7a_lVZzU

http://lseobserver.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/lse-lecture-on-euafrica-interrupted/

Some links in french language :

http://www.congogate.net/categorie-10530452.html

http://archivesolidaire.org/scripts/article.phtml?section=A1AAAGBA〈=1&obid=24061

http://ferreblog.skyrock.com/2192694511-CONGOLAIS-CONGOLISES-EUROPEENS-AMERICAINS-AFRICAINS-ASIATIQUES.html

http://ferreblog.skyrock.com/2192686985-LUTTONS-POUR-NOS-DROITS.html

http://collectif.europeen.googlepages.com/louismichel-inculpationaoût2008

http://congobelgique.blogspot.com/2007/11/louis-michel-mis-nu-pour-cause-de.html

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