Posts Tagged: Hezbollah EU
Austrian Parliament Resolution Calls for Banning Hezbollah in EU
JNS.org - Representatives from Austria’s ruling party presented a parliament resolution on Friday calling on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. “Hezbollah...
Will the EU Finally Acknowledge Hezbollah for What It Really Is?
Nearly three years ago, the European Union finally overcame its longstanding resistance and addressed the issue of adding Hezbollah to its terrorism list. The good news...
Report: Bomb Parts Used in Burgas Attack Smuggled in From Poland
The detonator and remote control used in the Burgas, Bulgaria bus bombing last year that left five Israelis and the bus driver dead were smuggled...
Report: Gulf States Implement More Thorough Hezbollah Sanctions Than EU
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has started implementing sanctions on the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, the Saudi newspaper Al-Wattan reported Sunday, citing a "well-informed" source. Members...
Syrian Rebels Target Hezbollah
A string of bombings, rocket attacks, and assassination attempts has brought the Syrian civil war into Hezbollah's Lebanese stronghold. Hezbollah has found itself unable to keep...
Anti-Defamation League: EU’s Decision to Designate as Terrorists Only Hezbollah’s Military Wing is ‘a Flawed Counter-Terrorism Strategy’
The Anti-Defamation League labeled the European Union's decision to designate the "military wing" of Lebanese based Hezbollah as a terrorist organization Monday as "a positive...
Israeli President Peres, PM Netanyahu Welcome EU Blacklisting of Hezbollah
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed news of the European Union's decision to add the Lebanese radical movement Hezbollah's military wing...
EU Classifies Hezbollah Military Wing as Terrorist Group
JNS.org - After resisting the requests of Israel and the United States for more than a year after the Burgas bus bombing for which Hezbollah...
Bulgaria Government: ‘Further evidence’ that Hezbollah was Behind Bombing
JNS.org - Tsvetlin Yovchev, the new interior minister of Bulgaria, said "further evidence had been added" to an investigation implicating Hezbollah in the July 2012 bus...
Report: EU Politics Prompting Resistance to Hezbollah Blacklisting
Jerusalem Post - Resistance by some European Union countries to placing Hezbollah's armed wing on the EU's terrorist list is due more to internal EU...
Bulgaria Stunting Efforts to Blacklist Hezbollah
Times of Israel - BRUSSELS On a continent led by Western capitals with diminishing sympathy for Israel's problems, Jerusalem has come to rely on Eastern...
EU’s Ashton to Face Policy Criticism Upon Arrival in Israel
Jerusalem Post - The EU's "obsessive" focus on settlements is undermining efforts to re-start negotiations by giving the Palestinians the impression that no ...
Avigdor Lieberman Blasts EU for Failure to Blacklist Hezbollah
Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Avigdor Lieberman, lashed out at the European Union in a letter Monday, calling its decision...
Hezbollah: From Terrorism to War Crimes
JNS.org - An unexpected obstacle to efforts within the European Union (EU) to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization emerged last week when the new...
