The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called for excluding the European Union from Israel-Palestinian "peace" talks after reports of a new poll showing many Europeans consider Israel the top threat to world peace. Wiesenthal Center dean Rabbi Marvin Hier said the result "defies "logic" and is a racist flight of fantasy that only shows that anti-Semitism is deeply embedded within European society, more than any other period since the end of World War II." The survey, first reported by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, has not yet been released. Its main result was reported Friday by the International Herald-Tribune, which cited a source at the European Commission. Full results are to be released by the European Commission tomorrow. "This poll is an indication that Europeans have bought in, 'hook, line and sinker,' to the vilification and demonization campaign directed against the State of Israel and her supporters by European leaders and media," Hier said in the statement posted on the Wiesenthal Center Web site. He said that if the reports are accurate, "Israel should draw the only conclusion possible - that the European Union and its members should play no role in any future "peace" process." The Los Angeles-based Wiesenthal Center also asked supporters to sign an Internet petition to European Commission President Romano Prodi saying Europe's "blatant bias" disqualifies it from "peace" talks. Minister Natan Sharansky, responsible for the Diaspora and Jerusalem affairs, said Saturday that the poll results prove "anti-Semitism" lurks behind European political criticism on Israel. "Just like in the past when the Jew was blamed for usury for being thieves and murderous cannibals, the 'enlightened' world today uses that same claim about the Jewish state. The European Union must work to stop the demonization of Israel before Europe deteriorates back to its dark past, we are not the children of satin."

(1) This same group never made a peep when similar polls previously fingered the US as being the greatest threat to world peace. Of course, this means that the SWC is loyal to Israel, not the US.

(2) Their response confirms the poll. The response is intended to provoke more disharmony, and is, therefore, contrary to the goal of peace.

(3) It exhibits psychological denial and projection. Rather than deal with the fact that we hate Israel for what Israel does, they attempt to dismiss it by attributing our response to some imagined defect on our part: Anti-Semitism.

>>We the people >>:

who authorized you to speak in anybody's name other than your own?

I HATE ISRAEL CAUSE THEIR SHITASS SCUM-BAG MURDERERS AND THIEVES

I HATE ISRAEL CAUSE THEIR SHITASS SCUM-BAG MURDERERS AND THIEVES

because it generalizes about all israelis being murderers without evidence that 6 million israelis are the same.

baseless generalization is racistic.