Europeans Coming To Visit Israel, Bringing Holocaust Denying Le Pen Along
Chutzpa:
Israel said on Friday it would not welcome a delegation of European Union parliamentarians planning to visit the country this week if it included a far-right French member. The Foreign Ministry said Israel objected to the inclusion of Marine Le Pen, daughter of far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the delegation. A spokesman for the European Parliament said the delegation had postponed the trip. "The delegation contained a senior member (Marine Le Pen) of a political party which, unfortunately, is both racist and a Holocaust denier," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
No one's asking, of course, why the EU delegation includes Le Pen? It's apparently the most natural thing in the world that he would come along. After all, since at least as long ago as Ahmednejad was invited to speak to the Council on Foreign Relations, Holocaust denial is on the spectrum of things that foreign leaders can suggest. Some foreign leaders will suggest that Israel has a right to self-defense and some will suggest that the Holocaust never happened. It's all just part of quotidian deliberation on the European Continent.
You know, other than losing the centuries-old churches and the museums, it's really getting harder and harder to tell what's going to change when political Islam finally takes over in Europe.
Israel said on Friday it would not welcome a delegation of European Union parliamentarians planning to visit the country this week if it included a far-right French member. The Foreign Ministry said Israel objected to the inclusion of Marine Le Pen, daughter of far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the delegation. A spokesman for the European Parliament said the delegation had postponed the trip. "The delegation contained a senior member (Marine Le Pen) of a political party which, unfortunately, is both racist and a Holocaust denier," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.
No one's asking, of course, why the EU delegation includes Le Pen? It's apparently the most natural thing in the world that he would come along. After all, since at least as long ago as Ahmednejad was invited to speak to the Council on Foreign Relations, Holocaust denial is on the spectrum of things that foreign leaders can suggest. Some foreign leaders will suggest that Israel has a right to self-defense and some will suggest that the Holocaust never happened. It's all just part of quotidian deliberation on the European Continent.
You know, other than losing the centuries-old churches and the museums, it's really getting harder and harder to tell what's going to change when political Islam finally takes over in Europe.
