The European Union issued a long, passionate and hypocritical statement to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day while actively helping the Palestinian Authority with efforts to expel more than half a million Jews from their own homes.
“We remember the genocide committed here, on European soil, just two generations ago,” said the statement by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union, issued the day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“We remember the millions of Jews murdered in the Shoah, and the many other victims. “As Shimon Peres, now sadly no longer with us, once said: ‘We are their eyes that remember. We are their voice that cries out.’ “To those who would deny, this is our message. A message of collective responsibility. We have a responsibility to remember: a responsibility towards the victims, towards the survivors. A responsibility towards the future generations. And a responsibility towards Europe, and all European citizens. “As a reaction to the World War and to Shoah, the founders of a united Europe decided to turn the page. A united Europe was the only way to ensure that “never again” such tragedies would happen inside our continent. Our founders rejected the vicious idea that one nation, one people, one ideology should enslave all others. They chose to build a Union of diversities. And it is a choice we are called to confirm each and every day.
“As we celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Rome Treaties, and over seventy years of peace inside our Union, we must pass the message to younger generations: a peaceful and diverse Europe cannot be taken for granted. Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack. Discriminations based on religion and on ethnicity are worryingly on the rise. Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence. A peaceful and diverse Europe needs constant care, and it is everyone’s interest, and responsibility.”
And yet, the Palestinian Authority has been welcomed as a member to the Rome Treaties – the same Palestinian Authority that glorifies, praises and encourages terrorism against Israeli civilians as well as soldiers.
The same Palestinian Authority that broadcasts children’s programs teaching even the very youngest toddlers to murder, before they can spell words, before they can even read or write. The same Palestinian Authority that in English pretends to be a “partner for peace,” and in Arabic – translated by the Palestinian Media Watch media watchdog organization – speaks of the “blood of the martyrs” and names its children’s summer camps, schools, public squares and sports events after the most bloodthirsty terrorists in the history of the country.
The European Union welcomes that same Palestinian Authority into its chambers, its minds and its hearts, encourages its activities and generously funds its construction and infrastructure, including in areas under which it is patently illegal and an abrogation of the internationally-recognized Oslo Accords.
That European Union, and that Palestinian Authority.
So how sincere was this statement of “never again” ?
Manipulating the words of a dead Israeli statesman did not legitimize the ‘fake news’ of a European body bent on destroying citizens of a Jewish nation he dedicated his life to keeping alive.