"On Tuesday, which was Tisha B’Av—a mournful Jewish holiday that commemorates two destructions of Jerusalem, the Spanish Expulsion, and other disasters of Jewish history—Israel’s far-left daily Haaretz trumpeted the news that the European Union had issued a new directive. It bans any and all interactions, economic, social, or academic, with Israeli companies or institutions situated in East Jerusalem, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), and the Golan Heights—that is, the places Israel took over in the 1967 Six-Day War, where a total of 700,000 Israelis (not far from 10 percent of the country’s population) now live. The directive can be taken as a warning that Europe—always perfidious toward Israel—stands to get even more so as its Muslim populations grow and the continent’s politicians and bureaucrats scramble more and more to appease them."
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:35:14 +0000