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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
ZOA: European Union Wants Ceasefire With Hamas Disarmament, Obama Wants Immediate Ceasefire Without Hamas Disarmament

Zionist Organization of America
News Release
European Union Wants Ceasefire With Hamas Disarmament, Obama Wants Immediate
Ceasefire Without Hamas Disarmament

Abbas' P.A. Follows Obama & Backs Pro-Hamas Ceasefire

New York, July 29, 2014: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has
pointed to the astonishing fact that, while the European Union (EU) has
called for an Israeli/Hamas ceasefire that encompassed Hamas disarmament,
President Barack Obama disagrees; instead, he seeks an immediate ceasefire
in which Hamas is not disarmed. Also, Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority
(PA), which had kept a low profile on the issue, has now come out with a
hardened, pro-Hamas position that echoes President Obama's position on
disarming Hamas only within the framework of a peace settlement.

Thus, on July 22, the EU Foreign Affairs Council said, "The EU calls on
Hamas to immediately put an end to these acts and to renounce violence. All
terrorist groups in Gaza must disarm. The EU strongly condemns calls on the
civilian population of Gaza to provide themselves as human shields" ('EU
Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process: Summary: 22 July 2014,
Brussels -- Council of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting
conclusions on the MEPP').

In contrast, on July 27, President Obama called for "an immediate,
unconditional humanitarian ceasefire that ends hostilities now ...
ultimately, any lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must
ensure the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of
Gaza"[emphasis added] ('Readout of the President's Call with Prime Minister
Netanyahu of Israel,' July 27, 2014).

Yesterday, Obama's National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, reconfirmed this
in front of several hundred Jewish leaders from around country at the
National Press Club in Washington, D.C., calling for an "immediate,
unconditional, humanitarian ceasefire."

This means that President Obama does not support Israel's right to defend
itself, but demands instead that Israel stop defending itself immediately.

Following this, PA senior official Saeb Erekat said that Israel's demand to
disarm the Gaza groups of their weapons is an issue that belongs to
negotiations of a permanent settlement, and will not even be discussed
before Israel recognizes a Palestinian state within the 1949 armistice lines
with Jerusalem as its capital ('PLO adopts President Obama's position that
Hamas remain armed until permanent Palestinian-Israeli agreement reached,'
Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA), July 28, 2014).

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "It is remarkable that
President Obama chose to depart from a wide European consensus that Hamas
should be disarmed.

"It is also remarkable that President Obama, who originally said that he
supported Israel's efforts to end Hamas rocket assaults and eliminate its
terror tunnels, should call for an immediate ceasefire that leaves Hamas'
armories and terror tunnels intact and thus would deprive Israel of
finishing what he said he supported.

"This means that President Obama does not support Israel's right to defend
itself, but demands instead that Israel stop defending itself immediately.

"The key word here in President Obama's statement is 'ultimately.' He is
deferring the vital task of defanging Hamas and preventing a recurrence of
its aggression and terrorism to a peace settlement. But a peace settlement
is simply unavailable when most Palestinians do not accept Israel's right to
exist as a Jewish state and, thus, support anti-Jewish terrorism and reject
a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel, as consistent poll
results show. Thus, to say that Hamas must be disarmed at a later date in a
future peace settlement merely ensures Hamas remains a heavily armed terror
group.

"The terror tunnels in particular pose an enormous danger to Israel, given
that they would permit hundreds of Hamas jihadists to infiltrate Israel, and
carry out mass casualty attacks that might make the Mumbai attack in 2008
look almost mild in comparison. President Obama's proposal of an immediate
ceasefire that leaves Hamas intact would, if adopted, incentivize Hamas
terrorism, endanger Israel and ensure a bigger, more costly conflagration in
the future.

"President Obama's stance has also served to radicalize the PA position,
which is now in favor of ceasefire that strengthens its regime partner and
rival, Hamas.

"This is not peace-making. This is not 'having Israel's back,' as President
Obama likes to claim. It is having Hamas' back -- and it is a prescription
for renewed and more costly war."
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About the ZOA

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is the oldest and one of the
largest pro-Israel organizations in the United States. With offices around
the country and in Israel, the ZOA educates the public, elected officials,
the media, and college/high school students about the truth of the ongoing
Arab war against Israel. The ZOA works to strengthen U.S.-Israel relations
through educational activities, public affairs programs and our work on
Capitol Hill, and to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the media,
in textbooks, in schools and on college campuses. Under the leadership of
such presidents as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Rabbis Abba Hillel
Silver and Stephen Wise, and current President Morton A. Klein, the ZOA has
been - and continues to be - on the front lines of Jewish activism.
www.zoa.org.

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