Their ongoing hypocrisy is also prety amazing. The 1949 armistice line, the so-called Green Line, is not a border nor has it even been recognized as one. The border, according to the UN's own resolution 242, is to be determined by negotiation. Therefore, Mr. Solana can't possibly know if the security fence is on Israeli territory, Palestinian territory, a bit of both, or precisely on a future border.
The last recognized broder, determined by a 1919 treaty between Great Britain (the mandatory power at the time) and King Feisal of Transjordan and Iraq, is actually the Jordan River. That being said, isn't the fence entirely on Israeli territory until a revised border is agreed upon?
You and I have disagreed on many occasions. I have to say, though, that on your post above you stated the issue beautifully, simply and straightforwardly.
Yes you got it exactly right.
And beyond your exactitude, what amazes me most of all not that how the EU ignores your simple logic, but how the EU's position is opposed to a negotiated settlement. By predetermining that the fence is "built on Arab land" they are attempting to impose their own idea of where the border should be on the parties - which of course means they are not an "honest broker" but a party to the negotiations themselves!
Their attempt to call it "arab land" flies in the face of their responsibilities in the Quartet and their prior statements in support of a negotiated settlement between the two parties.
It also amazes me how the EU has hitched onto Arafat's star even as it falls into the abyss below. As if the 4 years of violence, incitement, terrorism, which comes on the heels of a lifetime of international terror and hate!, weren't enough to make the EU 'reconsider' their position on the PLO (oh, excuse me, PA). No, they have to contrive some hoey palloy about well, if this time he doesn't reform, we'll have to reconsider. What nonsense! I am sick of these fools in the EU but I am confident in the knowlege that their lack of vision, forsight, ethics, morality and plain common sense will bring them their just desserts.
All of this is true. We have a genuine border with Canada. Israel has no such borders because Mohammedans will never concede Jews ruling a land that was once Mohammedan ruled And 242 means negotiations for peace with the Paleostinians getting land but not necessarily all the land of Gaza and the West Bank. 242 was written when the 1967 war was fresher on peoples minds........ and people knew that Israel justly seized the territories in a war after being raided and terrorized from them for years. Israel also now had the WB and Gaza as buffer zones against Arab armies