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EU i mirovni proces
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EU ban on Hezbollah branch a start, but impact is likely limited
By Cnaan LiphshizJuly 23, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on June 20, 2013 in Jerusalem with Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, who said the union's recent decision on Hezbollah was "partly a political signal." (Alex Kolomoisky/FLASH90/JTA)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — The effectiveness of the European Union’s decision to blacklist only Hezbollah’s military wing might be debatable, but one thing about the move seems certain: It did not come easy. The decision Monday by Europe’s 28 foreign ministers to put Hezbollah’s military wing on the EU list of terrorist organizations followed months of jostling by member states in the wake of last summer’s killing of five Israelis and a Bulgarian in a bus bombing near the Black Sea resort of Burgas.
Uspješnost odluke Europske Unije da stavi na "crnu listi" samo militantni dio Hesbollaha može se diskutirati , ali jedno je sigurno: nije bilo lagano. Odluka 28 ministara vanjskih poslova EU, u ponedjeljak, da stavi militantni dio Hesbolaha na listu terorističkih organizacija je nastavak nekoliko mjeseci odlučivanja zemalja članica zbog smrti 5 Izraelaca i Bugara prošlog ljeta od bombe u autobusu na Crnomorskom Burgasu. Izrael i Bugarska su optužili Hesbollah da je odgovoran za napad, što grupe bazirane u Libanonu poriču.
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“This is partly a political signal and partly a real signal that we are not prepared to see any terrorist activity as means to achieving what some would consider political ends, while we want to be clear, too, in our support for political parties of Lebanon and the people of Lebanon,” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said at a news conference Monday. “We’ve made the distinction clear.”
Jewish groups were pleased generally by the development, with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder calling it a “major breakthrough” and the Board of Deputies of British Jews averring it would “seriously damage Hezbollah’s capabilities” around the world.
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Europe is “Hezbollah’s piggy bank and money laundromat,” said Wim Kortenoeven, a pro-Israel former parliamentarian from the Netherlands and the author of a book on Hamas, citing a 2011 report by German intelligence that estimated Hezbollah had about 1,000 members in Germany alone.
“Hezbollah’s main activity in Europe is money laundering and some gathering intelligence, which isn’t performed by combatants but is used also for military purposes,” Moniquet told JTA. “It means these regulations are declaratory and will likely have very little effect on the ground. Hezbollah will just say not to worry, these men are from the political arm.”
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