You have to hand it to the Irish representative to the UN Human Rights Committee and her EU colleagues for abstaining en masse in the recent vote for a inquiry in Gaza. Not because I agree with her or her colleagues but because it absolutely confirms general suspicions about the EU and its role in the world.
By this vote the EU has confirmed two things. First it intends to continue its traditional role in the Middle east of hand-wringing combined with no action; intentionally leaving the field clear for the US and Israel to continue their campaign of war and general mayhem, but leaving the EU 'unstained' on the side. Second it confirms once more how out of touch the EU is with its own citizens. In a week when there very many large protests which were almost universally sympathetic to the Palestinian cause we see the EU elite effectively supporting the Israeli position.
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