A British political commentator has rejected the possibility of an impartial European role in the planned resumption of talks between the Israeli regime and Palestinians, citing the EU’s recent blacklisting of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Press TV reports.
The London-based commentator Chris Bambery further emphasized in a Press TV interview that the EU sanctions against the Islamic resistance movement came “at the instigation of the United Kingdom,” which were “clearly in revenge for the success of Hezbollah in resisting the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.”
“Therefore, they are acting according to the United States and Israeli agenda,” he added.
Bambery highlighted the European Union’s record of persistently following in the footsteps of the US in backing the Israeli regime, and reiterated, “Of course, that is not surprising given Britain’s historical role and France’s historical role in supporting Israel.”

The British commentator further underlined the fact that Britain was indeed the country that “essentially set up” the Israeli regime in 1948 with its 1917-drafted Balfour Declaration.

He also noted that the UK and France were the two European governments that supplied plutonium to the Tel Aviv regime in a bid to launch its illegal atomic weapons program.

Israel is widely believed to possess as many as 400 nuclear warheads, a fact that the regime has never rejected nor verified under its “nuclear ambiguity” policy.

Challenging a recent statement by prominent American linguist and Middle East expert Noam Chomsky that US cannot make a neutral mediator in any Israeli-Palestinian talks while EU can play “a decisive role,” Bambery said such a move is unlikely, “given the commitment of both the center-left and the center-right political parties in Europe to Israel.”

He added, however, that under the current political circumstances in Europe only “a grassroots movement” can challenge European Union's support for the Israel regime.

Bambery further described as “a bit of a joke” the resumption of talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel “given the fact that illegal settlements are continuing at a huge pace.”

The Palestinian-Israeli talks were halted in September 2010 over disagreements on Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.

On July 25, Israeli Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom said the talks may resume in Washington next week.

Most Palestinian factions have condemned the decision by Abbas to restart talks with the Israeli regime.

The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which represents more than 130 Palestinian civil society organizations, has also called on the PA not to attend the negotiations.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has rejected a proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry for the resumption of talks, saying it “considers the Palestinian Authority’s return to negotiations with the occupation to be at odds with the national consensus.”

By Press TV

 

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