Lieberman blasts EU for failing to label Hezbollah as terror group

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Avigdor Lieberman slammed the European Union on Monday, June 10 for failing to label Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Naharnet.com reported.

He labeled the move as “ultimate hypocrisy."

Israeli media quoted Lieberman as saying that Israel must convey to the EU that failure to blacklist Hezbollah in an upcoming discussion on the topic in two weeks "will make the EU irrelevant to us."

Last week, several EU governments expressed concern that a British request to add Hezbollah to the list of terrorist organizations would increase instability in the Middle East.

At a meeting in Brussels, the governments also questioned whether there was sufficient evidence to link Hezbollah to an attack that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year.

Britain has argued that Hezbollah should face EU sanctions over its alleged role in the bus bombing in the resort of Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver.