EU observer reports the plan here.
The Plan
- Immediate Ceasefire
- Unity Palestinian Authority
- Meetings between Israel and Palestinian Authority
- Prisoner Exchange
- Euro-Peacekeepers
Ceasefire? All this does is perpretuate the violence because the agressor never gets its hat handed to it. The only thing that stops violence is victory.
Does Spain, France, and Italy actually presume to force a goverment on Palestine, when elections rejected a moderate goverment willing to negotiate in favor of Hamas and rejection of recognition of Israel? File this under "How Europe promotes Democracy".
No one will meet without Palestinian recognition of Israel.
Will the European peacekeepers be as effective as they were in south Lebenon, where there were promises of Europeans including a large French contingent, and we still haven't reached the primised numbers.
"A peacekeeping force does not come here with pre-set enemies. There is no enemy [inaudible] in a peacekeeping force. UNIFIL is a peacekeeping force. It's not a Israeli combat force or an anti-terror force, as they would like it to be. As long as we don't serve their direct interests, they are going to denigrate it as much as they can." Timur Goksel, former spokesman of the UNIFIL, July 26, 2006
If the purpose of a mission is to keep the peace, then any agressor is an enemy. For genuine peacekeepers, any hostiles are the enemy. In fact, based on Goksel's statement, UNIFIL is no peacekeeping force, its a Corps of Observation, and nothing more.