Posted on 06/12/2015 12:11:59 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
When it comes to dealing with the increasing calls to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, the United States and Europe are moving in two opposite directions.
Last week, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law legislation that bars public entities from conducting business with companies that discriminate against Israel. Its the first of its kind, though other states are likely to follow suit.
Meanwhile, growing displeasure with the frozen Israeli-Palestinian peace process has led European Union countries to call to label products from settlements in disputed territories in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, as well in East Jerusalem.
If labeling Jewish goods sounds darkly reminiscent, it does as well to Germanys neo-Nazi groups, who have recently co-opted the countrys BDS movement. But the neo-Nazis shouldnt get all the attention labeling goods from East Jerusalem is a brazen act of economic warfare from Europe, and one that violates the principles of the very peace process Europe claims to promote.
The 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians said merely that Jerusalem is a subject for final-status negotiations, not a settlement. The European Union itself defines Jerusalem as a corpus separatum a separate body whose status is subject to negotiation rather than occupied territory.
More broadly, the drive to label Israeli merchandise has allowed Germanys resurgent far-right to push its way to the front of the anti-Israel movement. In 2009, Jürgen Rieger, a Holocaust denier and then-deputy chairman of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany, called on Germans to boycott Israel...
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While I disagree with the assertion that the National Democratic Party is "far right", this article reveals that Europe is moving quickly to distance themselves from freedom, democracy, and its Judeo-Christian heritage.
German led Europe is courting the good favors of the Islamic petro-world by throwing Israel under the bus. The end goal is the coveted title of world's reserve petro-currency which the prophet Zechariah predicted in Zechariah 5...
Zechariah 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth , and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. 6 And I said , What is it? And he said , This is an ephah that goeth forth . He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. 8 And he said , This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. 9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked , and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. 10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established , and set there upon her own base.
There will be no peace in the Middle East until the Prince of Peace returns. In the meantime, things are going to get really nasty.
That's just plain nuts!!!
And Europe derives its name from ...
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