One diplomat, a French woman, punched an Israeli soldier in the face
The Europeans have verboten Israel to construct settlements in land captured from the Arabs in 1967, but their diplomats are actively helping Palestinians to build settlements in violation of an agreement signed between the Palestinians and Israel. That is another example of how the shameless descendants of Holocaust enablers are supporting the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel.
From September 27 IsraelNationalNews.com: Marion Fesneau-Castaing, France's cultural attache to its consulate in Jerusalem, punched an Israeli soldier in the face during scuffles around an illegal encampment set up by local and foreign activists in the Jordan Valley. EU officials initially issued a condemnation against Israel over the incident, as reports by anti-Israel activists claimed Israeli forces had used violence against a convoy delivering "humanitarian aid," and had physically assaulted the French diplomat. However, a video of the incident emerged showing a very different story - including footage of Castaing punching a soldier in the face, as well as remarkable restraint on behalf of IDF personnel in the face of provocation by Arab and European activists.
In a lengthy op-ed posted in the October 25 issue of Jewish World Review, Caroline Glick describes a litany of anti-Israeli actions taken by the European Union. Here is an excerpt from the first part of Glick’s article:
Last month the European Union pushed European-Israeli relations to a new low. In mid-September, the IDF enforced a High Court of Justice order to destroy 250 structures built illegally by Palestinian squatters in the Jordan Valley. The High Court acted in accordance with the agreements signed between the Palestinians and Israel. Those agreements gave Israel sole control over planning and zoning in the Jordan Valley and throughout the area of Judea and Samaria defined as Area C.
Five days after the IDF destroyed the illegal structures, Palestinian activists arrived at the site with tents. Their intention was to act in contempt of the law and of the agreements the PLO signed with Israel, and to resettle the site.
The Palestinians did not come alone. They were accompanied by European diplomats. The diplomats were there to provide diplomatic cover to the Palestinians as they broke the law and breached the agreements the PLO signed with the Israeli government.
This would have been bad enough, but in the event, one European diplomat, Marion Castaing, the cultural attache at the French consulate in Jerusalem decided that her job didn't end with providing diplomatic cover for lawbreakers. She joined them. She punched an Israeli border policeman in the face.
Rather than apologize to Israel for using European diplomats to support Palestinians engaged in criminal activity, and for Castaing's shocking violence against an Israeli soldier lawfully performing his duties, EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton attacked Israel.
Ashton called the tents, presumably paid for by European taxpayers, "humanitarian assistance," and declared, "The EU deplores the confiscation of humanitarian assistance carried out by Israeli security forces yesterday in Khirbet al-Makhul.
"EU representatives have already contacted the Israeli authorities to demand an explanation and expressed their concern at the incident. The EU underlines the importance of unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance and the applicability of international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory," Ashton said.
The EU's role in financing illegal Palestinian building efforts in the Jordan Valley is not unique. For some time, in contempt of Israeli law and the agreements signed between Israel and the PLO, the EU has been financing illegal building by Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
What was new in last month's incident was the deployment of European diplomats at the scene to provide diplomatic cover for Palestinian law breakers, and of course their willingness to physically assault Israeli security forces.
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