by Dror Eydar
In Europe's eyes, these Jewish tattletales are good Israelis, because they oppose the "extreme Right" (that's how they view the Israeli majority)
Considering all the
crises plaguing the world, and our region in particular, it is odd that
of all people, a foreign minister representing more than 80 million
Germans chose to meet with a group of Israeli tattletales who defame our
soldiers. He also chose a perfect time to do it: between Holocaust
Remembrance Day and Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers. Does this man not
have advisers?
According to watchdog
group NGO Monitor, over the last five years Germany has contributed some
5.5 million shekels ($1.5 million) to left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking
the Silence (a group that solicits damning testimonies from IDF soldiers
about Israeli military wrongdoing) through a variety of
government-funded church aid organizations. In the same manner, the
German government has donated 1.7 million shekels ($468,000) to B'Tselem
(a group that documents and broadcasts violations of Palestinian
rights), the watchdog found. The European Union hands Israeli and
Palestinian organizations hundreds of millions of euros, even though
many of them are anti-Semitic and support Arab terrorism against us.
Recently, thanks to NGO
Monitor's work, a protest erupted in the European Parliament against
the distribution of government funds without oversight.
What about our
lawmakers? Why aren't they leading this protest? The members of the
European Parliament don't know the first thing about how their money is
being used. All they know is the small amount of one-sided "information"
provided by the groups themselves. For example, the "information" that
the German foreign minister received from Breaking the Silence during a
tour of Hebron several years ago prompted him to tweet about
"apartheid." What does he know about our history in Hebron? What does he
know about the decades of murderous tendencies of the town's Arab
residents against Jews? In Europe's eyes, these Jewish tattletales are
good Israelis, because they oppose the "extreme Right" (that's how they
view the Israeli majority) and they provide the world with (partial,
often false) information about alleged Jewish war crimes.
The German foreign
minister describes these organizations as the "opposition." Hardly!
Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog is the opposition. These groups are
so oppositional they even oppose Herzog's opposition (and while Herzog
does occasionally use them to bash Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
government, his opinion of them is well-documented).
Nowhere else in the
Western world is there another example of such blatant intervention in
the policies of another democracy. Imagine what the government of Spain
would say if the Germans gave cash to Catalan separatists. They are just
an "opposition" group, aren't they? The Europeans don't fund opposition
organizations in any other country, certainly not to the enormous
extent they fund these small-time groups that fight to undermine Israel
under the guise of human rights activism (to them, human rights means
that every human deserves the right to self-defense -- except Jews).
The truth is that these
European donations, including money from the German government, are
meant to coerce Israel to incorporate policy that contradicts its own
interests and historical justice. The Palestinians are lucky enough to
be leading the fight against the Jews' return to Zion. That is the real
story here. I remember a poor Yazidi woman -- whose people were forced
to convert to Islam or be slaughtered, the women raped and sold into
slavery -- holding up a sign lamenting her people's misfortune that
their enemy is not the Jews -- the only enemy the world is interested
in.
Supporters of the
leftist groups will argue that since the Germans provide the Israeli
military with submarines, they have every right to criticize us. And I
say: Sure! Criticize, argue, debate (after learning all the facts) but
do so directly with the policy makers, not through disguised channels
and certainly not through provocations, like the German foreign
minister's. In any case, this shameful European intervention in Israeli
politics needs to stop. Israel is not a third-world country.
Dror Eydar
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=18907
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