100,000 civilians have been slaughtered in the ongoing Syrian civil war, and another 2.8 million – that’s 2,800,000 people – have been rendered homeless, refugees in their own state or having abandoned everything and fled to neighbouring countries such as Turkey, the Lebanon and Jordan. The 10-million-strong Coptic Christian minority of Egypt suffered unspeakable atrocities […]
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Fact-ignoring visit to Gaza Plaza
“What we have been saying to the Israelis for a long time is that we need to allow aid into this region … for people to have the things they are clearly lacking.” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on the “plight” of Gaza Arabs. Ashton’s statement came at the same time as a rocket […]
The EU goes to school and learns nothing
Catherine Ashton is high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and vice president of the European Commission. At considerable public expense (she and her extensive retinue are funded by European taxpayers), she recently traveled to the Gaza Strip on what she termed was a mission “to see whether European assistance […]