Reader, the day is approaching when the Israel lobby will become fodder for American journalists and politicians, and this site will have tons of competition in its explorations. Why am I optimistic? Because Washington is fast becoming the only high ground left for the lobby. Per Haaretz, European mainstream politics has fully taken on the tragedy/danger of Palestinian statelessness, with talk of apartheid and BDS, and it’s only a matter of time before American politicians get a little courage:
Criticism of Israel has become the language of choice in European discourse.
The Haaretz piece is a report about the EU’s new foreign minister, an English baroness, Catherine Ashton who in her first speech as the European Union’s first high representative for foreign affairs and security policy "leveled scathing criticism at the ‘Israeli occupation.’"
Following her comments, a number of MEPs from the Liberal side of the house called for punitive measures against Israel, including the suspension of the EU’s Association Agreement. Irish centre-left member Proinsias De Rossa, who visited the West Bank last week, called Israel’s treatment of Palestinians a form of "apartheid."…
The British stateswoman, who has also served as the Commissioner for Trade in the European Commission, said that in the EU’s view, "East Jerusalem is occupied territory, together with the West Bank."
h/t Peter Voskamp.
