Maybe they didn't notice?
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s failure to quickly condemn the kidnappings of Naphtali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach has “not gone unnoticed,” diplomatic sources in Jerusalem said on Monday.I'm not surprised Europe hasn't condemned the kidnappings. They're still the same anti-Semites they have been for centuries. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The officials said that while the US, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the International Committee of the Red Cross all condemned the kidnappings by Sunday, as of Monday afternoon there was no statement from Ashton or her office.
An official at the EU delegation in Tel Aviv told The Jerusalem Post that strong reaction was expected later on Monday.
Nevertheless, the length of time it took Brussels to issue a statement left Israeli officials wondering.
“Maybe they didn’t know about it,” one diplomatic official said caustically, contrasting the time it took the EU to condemn the kidnappings with the rapidity in which they regularly condemn announcements of Israeli construction beyond the Green Line. A source in the Prime Minister’s Office said that they, too, were taking note of who was condemning the kidnappings.
The EU has applauded the recent Hamas-Fatah unity moves, saying it was an important step toward intra-Palestinian reconciliation necessary for there to be a two-state solution.
Rafi Schutz, the foreign ministry's deputy director-general for western Europe raised the issue in a meeting he had with EU ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen on Monday. The ambassador began to explain that it took time for the EU to release the statement because it was the weekend, while Schutz pointed out that during the same weekend the EU released a statement against Israel relating to Palestinian prisoners.
Labels: Catherine Ashton, European anti-Semitism, European Union, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:57 PM
2 Comments:
DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE EU'S UGLY WITCH OF THE WEST, AND YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED. SHE AND THEY ARE AS CRASS AS CAN BE.
I'm an European and I for one strongly condemn the kidnappings.
I also condemn Catherine Aston for her silence where outcry is due.
But then, what can you expect from an ultra leftist as she is?
SHAME on You, Catherine Ashton
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