You’re Not Allowed Double Standards But We Are

By Europe

Brussels, June 4 – Perhaps we need to explain an important point that you fail to understand, a point that undergirds the framework of our international funding and policy, especially regarding the Middle East: we, the European Union, enjoy the freedom to demand certain behaviors of Israel in the name of “justice,” “even-handedness,” and other values, while we make few or no demands of far worse actors than Israel, at the same time criticizing Israel for what we deem unjust discrimination. The apply-a-single-standard rule applies to you, not to us.

Thus, for example, we provide extensive financial backing to NGOs in Israel with the aim of keeping as many illegal immigrants within Israel’s borders and prevent the deportation of such infiltrators back to their countries of origin long after those countries have ceased to pose any serious threat to returning citizens. We know if those work-seeking migrants cannot find livelihood in Israel, before long they will try to reach Europe instead, and that would be unacceptable and unsustainable. But we love open borders!

Take economic sanctions, as well. Europe will do all in its power to dilute or circumvent restrictions on trade and currency transfer with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has repeatedly threatened a genocide of the world’s only Jewish state, and which continues to oppress women, homosexuals, non-Muslims, and various other populations. But woe betide Israel if it dares defend itself against a hostile population whose leadership has vowed for a century to eliminate Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland! We will impose sanctions on Israeli products in a heartbeat for such actions. If we can get our bureaucracy in order for such a measure, that is. It’s difficult enough as it is to get all the funding properly approved for terrorist groups fronting as human rights NGOs.

Our own members suffer from our double standards: the Republic of Cyprus has territory under Turkish occupation since the 1970’s, but you will never hear a peep out of Brussels about cutting off economic ties with Ankara. The Turks have quite the trump card up their sleeve, what with their control over how many millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq can make it into Europe. As we said above, refugees belong in Israel, not Europe. Especially Palestinian refugees who aren’t refugees at all by the standard definition of the term, which if we followed we would have to treat them like all other refugees: arrange for them to resettle elsewhere, and not extend refugee status to them in perpetuity.

That’s no way to treat Palestinians. After all, what are they – Jews?

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