Sunday, February 12, 2017

Europe lambasting Israel yet again

Another example of European double-standards towards Israel are Spain's "walls of shame" at Melilla and Ceuta:
Like Melilla, Ceuta was founded in Morocco centuries ago. They are two European outposts in Africa, hangovers from the colonial era. And they are heavily fortified. 
Three rows of six-meter-high (about 20 feet) barbed-wire fencing protect these Spanish frontline cities. Infrared cameras monitor the fortifications and motion and noise detectors have been installed. Spain hopes to keep out African refugees with high-tech fences. Read more @ Spiegel.
Via The Jerusalem Post (by Michael Freund):
After Monday’s passage of the law aimed at regulating certain land issues in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s ostensible friends in Europe wasted little time before lambasting the Jewish state in remarkably harsh terms. Mustering all the vitriol at their disposal, which appears to be boundless when the subject is Israel, the leaders of the Continent went on a rhetorical rampage that was as obscene as it was offensive.  
As usual, it was the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, who scaled the heights of hyperbole when she called the law “new and dangerous,” as though resolving land disputes through compensation was an entirely unheard-of concept in modern law. But then Mogherini went further, declaring that “the Israeli parliament has legislated on the legal status of land within occupied territory which is an issue that remains beyond its jurisdiction.” 
The irony of her own statement was apparently lost on her. After all, what “jurisdiction” does Mogherini have to interfere in Israel’s internal affairs, berate its democratically-elected parliament or interpret the legislation it chooses to pass? Other leaders, such as French President Francois Hollande, denounced the legislation, saying it would “open the way to the annexation of the occupied territories,” while the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolai Mladenov said that by legislating “in the occupied Palestinian lands,” Israel had crossed “a very thick red line.” 
Well if European and international statesmen really want to have a debate about “occupied territories,” I say: bring it on. 
A good place to start would be with some of Europe’s own colonial relics, which it greedily clings to, like a hung-over hobo grasping a bottle with a few remaining drops of vodka.
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