EU HYPOCRISY: TURKS V. PALIS

EU Hypocrisy - Turks vs. Palestinians - Eli E. Hertz
Turkey is a peaceful democracy and already a strategic partner in NATO. European yardsticks for Turkey to join the EU include demands for far-reaching political and social reform "on the ground," and 10 to 15 years of negotiations while Turks prove democratic change is "irreversible." European yardsticks for Palestinians - a society with a history of hostility - to join the family of nations amount to praise for fabricated non-existent reforms and calls to drop the required incremental progress from the Road Map. Democratic reform and an end to violence, that the Palestinians haven't even begun, is ignored - all in order to forge the way for immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, one which will endanger the very survival of a free and democratic Israel. (MythsandFacts.org)