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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Ashtons-lapse-339781
Does Ashton's Lapse Reflect EU Attitudes toward the Jewish State?
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Baroness Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and vice president of the European Commission, issued a remarkable statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday that never mentioned Jews. The bizarre homage Europe's spokeswoman paid to "every one of those brutally murdered in the darkest period of European history," without any reference to their identity, strains common sense. Not mentioning who the six million were and why Europe's resplendent cultures systematically put them to death appeases elements in the Islamic world - Iran foremost - that don't conceal their sympathy for the Nazi genocide. The Holocaust was blueprinted against Jews. Not every last victim was Jewish, but every Jew on earth was earmarked for death. Only Jews were singled out for eradication because of "tainted" lineage. Nothing could save anyone deemed too Jewish to live. In 2012, Ashton equated the point-blank shootings in France of three small Jewish children and the father of two of them with an assortment of unrelated misfortunes. The Toulouse victims' sole crime was that they were born to Jewish parents - just like the million and a half Jewish children slaughtered in the Holocaust. Such moral blindness cannot be ignored when assessing EU attitudes toward the Jewish state.