Tim Blair

It doesn't take "a pair" to give lip service to anti-Hamasism when their heavy hitters are gettin' splattered by IDF rockets. The EU just doesn't need to fear Hamas any more. I'll give 'em credit for cajones when they decide to actively fight truly dangerous terrorists.

Aww the poor French. Such a shame they had to abandon their moral viewpoint.

They were the only ones *sophisticated* enough to distinguish between Hamas' military wing, the Izaddin Al-Qassam brigades, who TRY to kill Jews and the political wing, which ENCOURAGES and FINANCES the killing of Jews.

This actually brings up an important point. I read an email by an ABC "Audience Liason Officer" who was trying to justify why they refer to Hamas members as "militants" when the Aussie and US government classify Hamas as a terrorist group.

The weak response was about how the UN doesn't classify Palestinian terror groups as terror groups and the ABC refers to the UN definition.

Which is why Indonesians who slaughter westerners are terrorists, but Palestinians who slaughter Israelis are militants.

You would hope to see the media slowly cease their whitewashing of Palestinian terrorism as it loses its legitimacy in the "international community".

An ABC primer

terrorist
militant
activist
freedom fighter
visionary

zealot
patriot
dogmatist
ultraconservative
reactionary

"Foreign ministers of European Union countries say that the EU will declare all wings of the militant Palestinian group Hamas terrorist organisations and freeze their assets."

It shows how desperate the EUnuchs are for sources of income now that they can't embezzle Holocaust victims and the Iraqi oil-for-food program

"France dropped its earlier objections to the move, which it feared might harm any peace effort between Israelis and Palestinians and deprive Palestinians of important aid and social services."

Such as Jew-killing.

There ought to be a web site keeping track of which countries have failed to ban certain terrorist organisations.