European Union Denies Israeli Request That Hezbollah Be Listed As a Terrorist Organization

 Israel Minister for Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman, Cypriot Foreign Affairs minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoulis and EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policygive a press conference on July 24, 2012 following an EU-Israel Association Council meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.— Photo by AFP

Good bloody grief.  You might want to frame this quote from the article at DAWN:

“There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations,” said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

So, with that, the European Union decides NOT to put Hezbollah on the list of organizations that bring terror to this world.  And Europe wonders why  they are going to hell in a handbasket.

Here's the real story behind this decision - a number of Europeans countries are too damn scared of pissing off their now large Muslim populations with a decision like this.  The fact of the matter is that saying Hezbollah doesn't belong on a terrorist list is like saying Elton John doesn't belong on a list of gay entertainers.

EU rejects Israeli request to blacklist Hezbollah


BRUSSELS: The European Union turned down a request on Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hezbollah as a terror group after last week’s deadly bombing in Bulgaria.

“There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations,” said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

Israel blames Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah for Wednesday’s suicide attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver died.

But an EU decision would require the unanimous approval of all its 27 members.

Sitting beside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: “The time has come to put Hezbollah on the terrorist list of Europe.”

“It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people.”

But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hezbollah was an organisation comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was “active in Lebanese politics”.

“Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organisations,” she said.

The EU would consider this if there were tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terror, she added.