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Source: http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp547.htm
Europe's Mindset Toward Israel as Accentuated by the Lebanon War
[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] Manfred Gerstenfeld - The European Union has for many years announced its ambition to be a global political actor - to act as a counterweight to the U.S. on the world scene. The summer war in Lebanon could have been a major opportunity for the EU to show that it could move rapidly to stop a conflict in its tracks by offering a solution in which it would make a major contribution. Yet the discrepancy in the EU's pretensions and its capability to play a major role gradually became clear during the war. Israel's policy-makers should understand that many Europeans will always support the Arabs against it. They have long since lost the ability to discern between criminals and victims, democrats and terrorists.