Javier Solana, E.U. High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy “unreservedly condemn.. (the) terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv.” He said, "...no cause can justify the blind killing of innocents. Acts of terror such as the ones we have witnessed in Tel Aviv are intolerable and must stop.”

I am forced to exclude the U.S. government’s condemnation of the bombings or any others. For one, they were too lengthy, too elaborate and too wordy. Second, since Israel is never condemned, no matter how devastating their actions may be, there is no point in demanding equal condemnations. Also, few Palestinians place any expectations on the Bush administration, in terms of fairness and evenhandedness, which isolates the American stance on the Middle East from the rest of the world, in terms of its relevance to international law or even common decency.

However, from the above quotes, one can reach two realizations. One, the U.N. and the E.U. perceive the act of killing Israeli civilians as terrorism, and demand apprehending and punishing those responsible. Moreover, the U.N. and E.U. find the Israeli action, which was believed to have triggered the Palestinian reaction, of no relevance to their perception of the bombings.