by Matan Peleg
Twelve-year-old
Suleiman ran away from Syria alone to a refugee camp in Turkey after his
entire family was murdered by Syrian President Bashar Assad's army in
the Aleppo massacre. His family's fate is not unique, and it tells the
story of an entire nation. More than 100,000 people have been murdered
in the Syrian civil war since March 2011. But Europe has not said a
word.
Young Pakistani Malala
Yousafzai, 16, was shot in the head last October for leading a social
resistance to the Taliban. She recently spoke to the U.N. about
students, especially female, being murdered because of Islamist
extremists' desire to keep women from completing their educations. And
Europe has not said a word.
The recent Egyptian
overthrow saw 57 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi massacred
in one day. In Iran, adulterous women are stoned, in Saudi Arabia women
are fighting for the right to drive a car, though it seems as though
they will have to give up this round. Iran is building a naval base in
Sudan to deliver weapons systems to Assad and Hezbollah. But Europe has
not said a word.
The Shiite-Sunni war
claims the lives of hundreds of innocents every month, not only in Syria
but in Iraq and Bahrain as well. The war waged by Islamic extremists
against intellectual progress exacts a heavy toll on women and young
girls, part of the Islamists' declaration of intent. But Europe has not
said a word.
The only place were one
can really find human rights in the Middle East is Israel. One could
argue about the enforcement of rights, or the stalled peace talks and
who is to blame for their stasis. Yet civil and human rights exist, as
do progress, a culture of critiquing the government, law, court houses
and international laws. But Europe chooses to exercise its right to
hate.
In the Middle Eastern
realm that is filled with indiscriminate killing, the European Union
decided to stop cooperating with the Israeli bodies working in Judea and
Samaria, Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and in the Golan
Heights. Twenty-eight countries in the enlightened, progressive union
decided that the Golan Heights settlements were worse and more worthy of
condemnation than any massacre taking place a few miles away on the
other side of the border. Hypocrisy at its fullest.
But hypocrisy is not
the only guiding principle for the nations of the EU, nor are the
economic interests it has with the United Arab Emirates or the
sentiments of the Muslim voters in Europe, it is the pure anti-Semitism
that rejects the Jewish people's right to be the sovereign rulers and
inhabitants of their own country -- without the criminal foreign
intervention intended to bring it to its knees.
I cannot find any other reason
for this bizarre development. The asymmetrical equation between the
deafening silence to the deaths of innocents in Arab countries
contrasted with the scathing condemnation Europe and its representatives
in dozens of organizations working in Israel with European funding and
the decision to de facto boycott Israel companies because of the stalled
peace process. The decision-makers will make their judgment call on us
as a people to remember the unfathomable hatred in Europe against the
Jews that has existed for some 2,000 years, and not be taken aback by
their latest move against Israel. It is not new, and Israeli leadership
did not cause it.
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=5029
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