Melanie Phillips points out that it's
Israel's own fault that the Europeans are trying to impose their conception of 'peace' on us.
This is an act of malevolence. But the fault in large measure surely lies
with Israel. For although some may find this incomprehensible, Israel does not
make to the world the one case that matters – why Israelis are fully entitled under international law to build their
homes in these territories; and exactly how Britain, the EU and the UN have
grossly mis-stated and misapplied that international law.
Instead, Israel merely protests that the EU move will inhibit a peace
settlement. Which it undoubtedly will. But it will do so principally by
upending law, truth and justice – a case Israel never makes in public, thus
allowing the irrational hatred of Israel in the west, fed by racist lies and
propaganda, to spread its poison unchecked.
The reason it does not properly make this case is partly through the epic
dysfunctionality of the Israeli political class (which could fill many volumes).
It is partly through Israel’s isolation in the face of the bully-boys of the
western diplomatic world. But it is also through Israel’s bleak and despairing
judgement that the international community, composed of those who historically
and presently were and are driven by obsessive hatred of the Jewish people and
which finds expression for that hatred through vehicles such as the UN and EU, will
always do the bidding of those who wish to destroy the Jews and is therefore
impervious to reason and morality.
News of the EU’s act of existential spite against Israel broke on the fast
of Tisha b’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple (you know, that Temple, the one that stood in
Jerusalem all those centuries ago before any Arabs existed, let alone any Green
Line) along with the seemingly never-ending list down through the
ages of all those prosecuting their uniquely murderous and baseless hatred of the Jewish people.
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