From the Kuwait News Agency:
BRUSSELS, Jan 13 (KUNA) — President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, Monday rejected a call to hold a minute’s silence in the memory of Ariel Sharon, the ex-Israeli Prime Minister who died on Saturday aged 85 after eight years in a coma and was buried today.
“I will not allow the minute’s silence. No, there is no minute’s silence,” he told the full house of the European Parliament in its first session this year in the French city of Strasbourg.
Dutch MEP Laurence Stassen who belongs to the extreme-right Party for Freedom had called for the one minute silence for Sharon.
But Czech MEP Richard Falbr said “I don’t agree with a minute’s silence for Ariel Sharon.
“He has caused the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his conscience,” said Falbr who belongs to the Socialists Group. Many MEPs clapped to show support to his proposal.
This is wonderful. Follows the Dutch pension business and other EU breaking from the old passivity. My sense is that all people (except the far-right freaks) value human rights for all people and only fail to ACT on such feelings because of repressive politics and economic pressures. AIPAC in the USA acts in that repressive way toward non-Jews, and Hillel toward Jews(!). what we see in the (very small) gesture of a non-minute-of-silence-for-Sharon is a sense of human rights and fair play breaking out, a ray of sunshine coming out from behind the usual clouds.
Islamophobes like Laurence Stassen love people who commit warcrimes massacre against arabs and muslims (even christians) apparently.
Kudos to Richard Falbr who take a stance against this ignorance.
Awesome!
US Congress calls for WAR, BiBi Netanyahoo says, “Hell yeah!”
Well done Europe and well done that MEP.The EU needs to send a message to Israel at every possible opportunity that we Europeans dont view Israel,s criminals as worthy of one second of silence.Au contraire, we need to be making much more noise about Sharons crimes and those of his Apartheid racist state.