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The European Union’s refusal to recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization renders it a useless entity when it comes to responsibly dealing with issues in the Middle East, Israeli Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman said Monday, according Israel National News.

Lieberman even went so far as to say that if the EU continues to struggle with the question of whether Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, then Israel should just stop discussing such matters with the EU and “come to the conclusion that we can only rely on ourselves and not on the guarantees of others,” according to the aforementioned report.

“We are in a very dramatic time when one of the things that bother me the most is the conduct of the international community about our region, with an emphasis on the conduct of the European Union,” Lieberman told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which he chairs, Israel National News reported.

“It is inconceivable that the EU would back down from its plan to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization despite the terrorist attack in Bulgaria, which Hezbollah was behind, as well as the organization’s involvement in Syria,” he said, according to the aforementioned report. “The decision of the EU makes them irrelevant in the region, as does the decision to withdraw the Austrian troops from the Golan Heights.”

At a meeting last week, according to Israel National News, France, Germany, and the Netherlands proposed including Hezbollah’s military wing on the EU’s list of terrorist organizations, but Ireland, Austria, Sweden, and Hungary had doubts.

“The exclusion of an organization, which incites to and is actively involved in murder and hatred, on the list of terrorist organizations is hypocrisy which cries out to the heavens. It begs the question as to what other requirements, beyond the facts that are well known, are necessary for Hezbollah’s inclusion,” Lieberman wrote Catherine Ashton, the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief, in a letter last week, Israel National News further reported.

“Last week’s decision raises many questions, the most important of which is how far the EU is ready to go in order to combat terrorism and how Israel can rely on the EU’s promises to guarantee its security,” Lieberman reportedly continued in the letter. “I believe that there are many clear reasons for the EU to include Hezbollah on its terrorist list and that there is no satisfactory explanation for not doing so … excluding Hezbollah from the list of terrorist organizations is surrender to terrorism, with all that entails.”

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