Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Of course, it's not just failing to face the reality of its own anti-Semitism that the EU is failing at recognizing, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini says it was a failure of the EU not to recognize Hamas as a terror group sooner.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini told lawmakers Tuesday that Europe could be "more balanced" in its approach to the Middle East, and rebuked European Union member states for not outlawing the Palestinian militant group Hamas sooner.
Speaking to the members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday, Fini said that the EU had known for many years that Hamas was a terrorist organization, but had lacked the integrity to act upon that knowledge until Italy took over as EU president.
During talks with Fini on Monday, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom praised Italy's role in outlawing the militant group, and asked that Rome make the same efforts to add Hezbollah to the list of EU terrorist organizations...
