A staggering story

By: Chas Newkey-Burden On: 22 August 2009

This story made my jaw drop. The cheek of it.

Bibi, if you need someone to draft up a response I’m your man. I’ve already done so, in fact. It’s two words long.

Posted in: Antisemitism, Israel5 comments

Comments

Shmuel

Ha ha! Good stuff.

22 August 2009 at 9:21 AM Reply
Jonathan Hoffman

This is 100% about the German elections next month and 0% about the substance of foreign policy. Merkel is drumming up votes from the Left.

The reality is that Germany is by far the EU’s largest exporter to Iran (I think it is also the largest exporter in the world to Iran). It is no secret that this is why Germany’s – and therefore the EU’s – response to Ahmajinejad has been so weak. It also goes further to explaining Merkel’s comments.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1044837.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article6579517.ece

Bibi will put it far more eloquently…..

22 August 2009 at 9:54 AM Reply
NM

Ummm.. Germany, you don’t have the right to advise, chastise, admonish or even comment peevishly on Israel for the next 100 years because of a certain little matter in which you were involved in living memory. Sorry if it seems unfair, but, you know, you have a lot of points on your licence, so to speak. So shtum!

22 August 2009 at 10:04 AM Reply
Jonathan Hoffman

Sweden on the other hand – which has the Presidency of the EU until December – is far more even-handed in its Middle East policy

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/sweden-runs-for-cover-as-foreign-ministry-refuses-to-condemn-anti-semitic-outrage/#comment-390

22 August 2009 at 11:52 AM Reply
Brad Brzezinski

I believe this is being orchestrated by Obama. There was a sort of mass statement to the effect at the recent G8 meeting and even Canada went along.

It’s all the next step in something very unpleasant I fear.

24 August 2009 at 6:26 PM Reply