Anti-Semitism and Israel Bashing? Must Be a European Parliament Paper
The European Parliament is much like the General Assembly of the United Nations: it was founded for symbolic rather than for pragmatic reasons; it costs taxpayers a lot of money (what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly); its members “may not understand one another’s speech (Genesis 11:7)”; its sessions are remarkably dull (while people around the world risk their lives in the fight for democracy, the European Parliament installs a working group whose task is to figure out ways to make debates “more interesting” in order to “improve attendance”); and it’s a well-oiled machine that spits out anti-Israel resolutions on a regular basis. Every few months, a couple of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) travel to Gaza; when they come back, they are shocked, appalled, and dismayed, and send letters of complaints to the Israeli government.
“The delegation was shocked by the ongoing deprivations suffered by the people in Gaza,” they wrote the last time. Not like home at all, huh? What went wrong? According to the travel program, the last delegation was accommodated in the Al Deira Hotel. From what can be seen on the hotel’s website, it’s a really nice one, and according to the guestbook, even Mia Farrow has spent some nights there. (You would certainly not ask her to recommend you a good movie, but as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she can be trusted when it comes to hotels). Was it the food? That’s unlikely:
Al Deira’s restaurant and Sea Terrace is one of Gaza’s treasures, where locals and hotel guests can relax in a unique, elegant environment against a backdrop of blue sky and sparking sea. At night the twinkling lights of fishing boats spread like a pearl necklace along the horizon. Al Deira’s kitchen offers an excellent variety of local and Mediterranean dishes, specializing in fresh seafood prepared by expert chefs, presented with style. In the cool shade of large white umbrellas our visitors can enjoy a full meal, dishes prepared a la carte, or simply one of our divine fresh fruit juices.
Al Deira is a top-notch location, but the true reason why Gaza is called the new dining hotspot is the famous Roots Club. The European delegation went there, too. Did they agree with “Ahmed,” who wrote in the guestbook: “Very glad to see things in Gaza are not as bad as they say on TV”? No. While enjoying the Roots Club’s “diverse and approachable cuisine of superb meats, pasta and seafood,” the MEPs couldn’t help but notice that “schools are still denied building material.”
And that’s not even the truth: The Israeli government allows the transfer of building materials, but only if they’re used for the construction of Olympic-sized swimming pools. Obviously, the Zionists want to turn the Gaza strip into the world’s biggest aquatic center. At the same time they prohibit the transfer of golf balls, and thus breed discord between Gaza’s swimmers and golfers. What a cynical game.
750,000 people continue to need food aid from UNRWA.
Maybe the Roots Club should ponder the expansion in its key market?
300,000 of them are in abject poverty.
If true, that would amount to 20 percent, just like in Egypt (where no UN-sponsored agency provides free food).
What the European MPs are basically asking Israel to do is to erect a Scandinavian welfare state in Gaza. They spent a lot of taxpayer money for a vacation in a luxury resort (one night in Al Deira costs 150 dollars; use of business facilities and wireless internet connection are charged extra), only to publish another anti-Israel statement that they could have written before they even left. But should we jump to conclusions and call them a bunch of hateful, misanthropic, hypocrite pricks?
Yes, exactly. The stated purpose of the visit:
To meet with the elected representatives of all political parties in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in order to assess the living conditions in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well to discuss the issue of reconciliation.
In other words, they shook hands with Hamas terrorists, supported their PR efforts to demonize Israel, and mediated between rival terrorist groups in order to help them to focus on the common enemy. Who are these not-so-innocent innocents abroad? They belong to the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (DPLC), which was founded right after the first elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996. When Hamas won the elections in 2006, the DPLC had to decide whether to either dissolve itself or to turn into a Delegation for relations with Hamas. It chose the latter. The DPLC embraced its new brother in arms, and called upon the world to support the “union government.”
Since the middle east and Turkey itself are de facto “Zionist” polities why don’t members of Parliament camp out in front of an Egyptian Coptic church in a tent with a Star of David on it and see what kind of clarity that offers?
They most certainly won’t be tipping room service.
“and the claim that Jews exploit the Holocaust for political goals. If that’s not classical anti-Semitism, I don’t know what it is.”
Yup, we all have anti-Semitism in our DNA, even the Jews who oppose Israeli policies, but they are called self-hating Jews.
“Hungary has introduced media laws which restrict the freedom of the press. Italy has a press largely owned by the prime minister. Corruption in Bulgaria and Romania is endemic.”
Europe, what is ‘Europe?” Do you really think that Norwegians, French, or Finns feel Romanians or Italians as their brothers and sisters? Europe consists of … what, 45 countries, all with different cultures and languages. As to the Jewish blood in all Europeans’ hands, if that is not using Shoah for political purposes, I don’t know what it is.
How much corruption there is in Israel? As to the media laws in Israel? Anybody? Jewish owned media is taboo …
They’d like the rest of the world to believe that. That’s why it’s called the European Union, and not the Norwegian-French-Finnish-Romanian-Italian-Myriad-of-Other-Nasty-Little-Tribes Union.
It is true that the Gaza Strip now boasts some of the hottest restaurants and hotels in the Middle East but for the majority of Gaza’s Arabs, they will never see the inside of these places.
They will however be able to suffer massive unemployment, bitter poverty, and the lack of any opportunities of any kind.
Additionally, if they speak up about their problems, their Hamas overlords will torture them to death, or simply shoot them out of hand.
A bonus for the Arab women is that if they dare to dress immodestly in public, they can expect to be beaten and arrested, and possible executed for their “crime.”
Yes, the Gaza Strip is truly suffering under the heavy hand of Israeli oppression, oh that’s right, Israel pulled out lock, stock, and barrel years ago.
“They will however be able to suffer massive unemployment, bitter poverty, and the lack of any opportunities of any kind.”
By that measure, they in Gaza are no worse off than Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco or Sudan. Better off, in fact. In 1950, Egypt’s GNP per capita was about equal to South Korea. Today South Korea is an order of magnitude higher. Maybe the fact that Egypt’s population has almost quadrupled since then while the rate of illiteracy remains over 35% has something to do with it.
Gaza of course had one thing going for them: the years under Israeli “occupation”, during which Israel invested in infrastructure (roads, water, electric and sewage lines), health care and education. They also had the kind of economic opportunities Egypt never had (trade with and access to the labor market of Israel). They’ve since thrown that away, choosing instead war and dependency on aid.
I picture European criticism of Israel as a never-ending sneer.
Ah, the same usual drivel. Now that Egypt is rising, it is time for Israel to adapt or face a very bleak future. But all you pro-Israelis can do is continue to insult everybody who disagrees with you. The settlers in Hebron called the spanish foreign minister an anti-semite to her face. The written propaganda of the Israel lobby does much the same. Howling and shrieking is a sure sign of a looser.How does it feel to be on a loosing side in history?
Learn how to spell, you ignorant hanzir.
Oh no, Fnord, that is not all Israel and its supporters can do.
For the last 60 years they have been busy building the most robust high tech economy in the middle east, making scientific advances, building the most powerful military in the region, developing the highest regional standard of living, and maintaining the only liberal democracy in the ME.
And Egypt has been…well not doing much it looks like.
I dont think Israel has much to fear from Egypt. If it becomes Islamist takeover the Egyptians will fare far worse than the Israelis. Islamists dont have a great track record for civil rights or putting bread on the table, the things Egyptians seem to want most. Egypt has sent its tanks over the sands twice and none of them ever came back. I do not think the military is to keen on trying again and for what?
Your sort have been predicting Israels bleak future since before there was an Israel. Go ahead though, if you guys ever got a grip on reality you might actually be worth worrying about.
I reside in Israel “fnord” and read many newsites. How is it that I’ve missed all that “howling and shrieking”? Could it be that your predetermined perceptions are just wholly out of whack with the reality of the situation? Just asking.
I know & appreciate your support for Israel, but perhaps your reporters can outline Israel bashing from & by U.S. I am tired of hearing cover-ups of anti-Israel bashing by the administration & the pentagon. Do I have to rely on wikileaks? Can’t you help with the lack of free speech & democracy which is choking America? REB SHLOMO
The anti-semites in our goverment got a slap down when they felt free enough to express their anti-semitism from the American people who are still overwhelmingly pro-Israeli. They keep it hidden from us now.
You know, I get this feeling the Europeans wouldn’t mind if Israel disappeared tomorrow. They probably think it would save them a lot of trouble rather than having to deal with it. What the Europeans don’t get, unfortunately, is that they’re backing the wrong people. Israel was and still is the last best hope for that part of the world, only the Muslims and the Islamists there do not want to admit that. So even if Israel disappeared tomorrow, you would still be left with a bunch of poor, corrupt, and barbaric Islamic theocratic regimes in that part of the world. And I thought the Europeans were “smart.” Silly me.
“What the Europeans don’t get, unfortunately, is that they’re backing the wrong people.”
Oh, we do get it – at least, those of us who aren’t in government!
What you see in the ivory towers of governments, the EU and our deranged intelligentsia is – with respect – no more representative of us than Obama is of every American.
AlexaL, as much as I agree with you for the present, Europe is in a situation which the US is just approaching: within 40 years, the majority of the EU population will be Moslem. For UK, Franch and Germany, this will occur far sooner, but the simple population demographics are irresistile. The native European population is reproducing at a rate of less than 2 children per couple, in effect reducing their population share, while Moslem immigrants, with 4-8 children per couple, are rapidly becoming the voting majority. The arithmetic is easy and frightening. What Islam couldn’t do in the 9th-11th centuries through conquest in Spain and Portugal, they will do by invasive displacement in the 21st century. This is how the new Crusade is being fought and won.
Canada is on the cusp of fallling the the US is close. We need to act on immigration reform is we are to save ourselves, Israel, and the world from this catastrophe.
Israel was not really supposed to happen.
At the end of the holocaust nobody knew what to do with all of the remaining Jews. They didnt want them before it happened (see Bermuda conference the St. Louis, etc) and certainly did not want them now.
So the powers that be dumped them in a barren land, destitute, embargoed, and boycotted. Surrounded by more powerful enemies they were not allowed to purchase arms. There was no foreign assistance and nobody could be called an ally. The Jews were to be wiped out or subjugated as soon as the British pulled out, having already trained and equipped the Arab League to destroy them. The solution to the remaining Jewish problem in europe was to turn it into a middle eastern one.
Europe had always seen its Jews as weak. They were not supposed to be able to fight, farm, or build roads. People who criticise Israels birth often do not know, or ignore, how intensely painful it was, how close it was to failing. Indeed part of the myth which is turned against Israel is that its military victories were walks in the park, Israeli soldiers are the Goliath to the Arab David.
As Abba Eban once said “When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.”
Arabs in Gaza are lazy and shiftless, which is why they live the way they do. Case in point: the Israelis left Gaza with an infrastructure of greenhouses (they’re used to grow food, arab apologists), but to the neighborhood arabs they were bomb making material, not something to help those “poor, oppressed, starving, arabs”.
If Saudi Arabia would send some of that money they use to build mosques and madrassas in the U.S. to Gaza, they would still be “poor, oppressed, starving Arabs”, they’d just have better bomb making materials. As it stands, they are right where the Arab countries want them-being a thorn in Israels side, and human shields for the big, bad,”ready to die for their moon god” dar al islam.
Those people have been on the dole to the whole world for sixty years and the only thing they’ve produced is strife. That’s where they’ll always be, too, until they “beat their swords into ploughshares”. Jesus Christ, said that and I ain’t gonna argue with Him.
Good post Pazuzu.
Actually it was Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Well, the schoolbooks in particular are clearly racist, not just ‘anti-Zionist’. If the European Parliament and/or its groups funds these texts and approves of them……all these European countries do have anti-free speech laws that punish the expounding of racism. Wouldn’t it be possible to turns these laws against members of the Working Group and indict them individually and collectively for facilitating racism? Even if no one was ever convicted, just dragging their asses into court would be worth doing.
Meanwhile the media and EU ministers totally ignore the brutal thugocracy imposed on Palestinians by Hamas.
In this weeks news Israel is going ahead with plans to develop a Palestinian gas field off the coast of Gaza along with its own gas field to allow Gaza to be come energy independant. They are also working on a desalination plant for Gaza so they will not need Israeli water.
At the same time Hamas is refusing to allow for regularly scheduled elections
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article254633.ece
They also prevented a peaceful pro-Egypt demonstration and beat some of the demonstrators.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206223&R=R3
What is wrong with those Europeans, or should I call them all Eurotrash.
Why would anyone be on the side of those terrorists who are always plotting against Israel. Shame on the United Kingdom.
We’re not all the same, Aunty M.
Some of us work hard to counter this anti-Israel hysteria.
“…. and calls for a “boycott of all Israeli goods and services, similar to that imposed on apartheid South Africa.”
I’d just love to see him stick to that mantra once he discovers the degree to which he may be already using Israeli-devleoped technology! Let’s also hope he also has the courage to refuse any Israeli-developed medical interventions.
The boycott is a total fail. If anything it is backfireing as Israel supporters buy up targeted products by the caseload.
http://www.divestthis.com/
Anyone can help by buying up the excellent Israeli products available locally (some nice wines coming from the Golan lately, AHAVA makes some nice stuff for guys too I like the shampoo and shaving cream), considering investing in targeted companies (TEVA and CAT have done great for me), and considering travel to Israel (Christians may be interested in the new ‘footsteps of Mary’ tour http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=8593)
Interesting that you should write this comment, Raymond. Whereas Israel supplied Gaza with all its steel tubing for the sewage system, once Israel (unforunately) left Gaza, Hamas leadership ripped all the steel tubing out in order to construct rockets and mortars with which it subsequently attacked Israel. In the meantime, complaints about the sewage, its smell and infestations of disease as well as lack of facilities to deal with, and clean up, its sewage problems are part of the terrible impressions officials of foreign countries get when visiting Gaza without, of course, questioning and investigating the facts at hand (because they don’t want to). The result of all this pandering to Gaza by international sources is to make Israelis, like me, all the more hardened in our attitudes. The next time (and there will be a next time) we are required to strike Gaza, it will be with a full force with no pulling back until Hamas is absolutely dethroned and destroyed.
Modern day Israel
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The Nation of Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948, almost 2,000 years after it was destroyed in A.D. 70. There are many reasons why Israel couldn’t have become a nation before the middle of the 20th Century. Worldwide communities were too isolated from their own countrymen and the rest of the world and modern transportation and communications sure outclassed traveling by horse and sending smoke signals.
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After World War II modern communication and transportation inventions made it possible to know local news in other places around the world. People began to enjoy knowing about other cultures and wanted to know the top news events that were a concern for the locals in an area. Having global connections to other parts of the world gave them an opportunity and responsibility to give humanitarian or military aid to another person, group or nation who has a desperate need.
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On May 14, 1948 if you asked any Jew or Christian if they think that God established modern day Israel in 1948; there would be a resounding yes. In our fallen world, presumption is our “major sin” of choice; and has injured and killed more people emotionally and physically that all war in human history. We blame Satan if things go wrong in our lives, and we credit God for all the good things that happen to us. Most of life is a mystery, and we can’t determine for sure when God causes something to happen and when He is just allowing something to happen.
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The fact that a nation exist is not proof that God ordained it or sustains it. The United Nations was established in 1945 and by 1948 it was a very powerful influence around the world. The United Nations was established to encourage world peace after World Wars I & II were over. Those two World War death totals were about 66 million. Worldwide, 100′s of millions of people suffered emotional pain because of those killed in the war (a family member, friend or someone else that they knew). With all this death and destruction in the world, world leaders will now recognize Israel for “Peace” sake.
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In 1948 millions of Jews and Christians motivating 1,000′s of lawyers, politicians, religious leaders, entrepreneurs, and bankers worldwide, brought about the establishment of the National of Israel. So, human intervention, ingenuity, persistence and hard work is what created and fulfilled the dream of a modern day Israel (they didn’t really need Gods help). When Jews and Christians merge their personal desires and goals and seek to presume they are acting on a mandate and guidance from God; then they are lying to you and me and they are carnal disobedient children of God who pretend God is pleased with their religious cause.
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God used the Roman army to destroy ancient Israel in 70 A.D. God’s intentions were not to harm the people of Israel but He did want to destroy the political and religious hierarchy of the nation, because of their carnality, idolatry, killing many prophets, and later putting the Promised Messiah to death. These hypocritical self-righteous Jews had a lust for power, fortune and fame. But the common Jews of Israel received Grace from God and some stayed in their homeland while others were carried off into captivity; and hopefully all remaining Jews would repent and serve the Living God in righteousness.
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The good news is that God completed ancient Israel when He established Spiritual Israel. The Jewish Messiah said that He would build a temple, not made with hands. All Jews and Gentiles that have a personal relationship with and commitment to the Promised Messiah belong to the family of Spiritual Israel. The bricks of this new Temple are the Old and New Testament saints. And when you put your faith and commitment in the Jewish Christian Messiah, and believe that He died for your sins 2,000 years ago then you are in Gods Temple of Salvation.
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God won’t bless modern day Israel because a nation can’t kill the Promised Messiah and get blessed for their actions. Oh, I know that all humans are responsible for the death of the Messiah, but Israel was supposed to be the Spiritual leaders to the Jews and the Gentiles, but they rejected their Messiah. God now lives in the minds and hearts of men, women, boys and girls (and not in a Temple made with hands). The religious artifacts and religious destinations in the Middle East have nothing to do with worshiping the only true God; but are simply the “Cash Cow” of capitalism that promotes tourism, legalism and fanaticism!!!
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When someone gets married, someone says “Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate”.
My saying here is, what God has destroyed “Ancient Israel”, let no man rebuild.
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I assure you that God has a better plan for the human race, for their no longer is a Jew-Gentile, male-female, free-slave category; we simply are all children of the Living God if we know and love the Messiah of Gods Salvation.
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GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY !!!
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Sincerely,
ArthurTrafford.com
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