VIDEO Caroline was white hot.
Europe should address the Jewish state standard to Israel when judging its actions compared to other Middle Eastern nations, Danish Ambassador Jesper Vahr said on Thursday, causing sparks to fly at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in the capital.
“Israel should insist that we discriminate, that we apply double standards, this is because you are one of us,” Vahr said during a panel discussion on relations between Israel and Europe.
Israelis sometimes ask why Europe applies a different standard to its neighboring countries, such as Syria, Vahr said. “Those are not the standards that you are being judged by. It is not the standards that Israel would want to be judged by,” he said.
Israel should want to be held to European standards, not Middle Eastern ones, he said.
“So I think you have the right to insist that we apply double standards and put you to the same standards as all the rest of the countries in the European context.”
The Jerusalem Post’s diplomatic correspondent, Herb Keinon, who moderated the panel, asked Vahr if his statement couldn’t be seen as “patronizing” to the Palestinians.
Vahr responded: “I am not sure it is,” particularly given that Israel is the stronger party in the conflict and the Palestinians are the weaker one.
It is “natural,” Vahr said, to engage differently with Israel, a country with whom Europe, including Denmark, has an extensive cooperative relationship with in trade and cultural affairs.
Vahr’s comments angered Caroline B. Glick, the Post’s senior contributing editor, who retorted that they were a “statement of contempt for our intelligence.”
“I consider Europe’s keen interest in the Middle East, specifically Israel, to be an obsession,” she said. “It is an obsession that Jews have seen from Europeans from the time of Jesus.”
Glick was particularly struck by Vahr’s reference to a common culture between Israel and Europe.
“We have this whole common culture, I mean really? We respect international law. You guys make it up,” she said.
In 2001, the United Nations Security Council approved a binding resolution that bars UN member states from funding or supporting terrorist organizations, Glick said.
That resolution, she said, has not stopped Europe from “funneling billions of euros into rebuilding terrorist-controlled Gaza.
“This is in contravention of binding international law that you signed onto,” she charged.
But when it comes to Israel, Europe simply invents international law, Glick said. Europe acts as if it is required by law to sanction Israel for activity over the pre-1967 lines in West Bank settlements and Jerusalem, even though there is no such binding international legislation, she said.
“There is no such binding law. You guys are funding settlements in Western Sahara.
You are funding them directly,” she said. “This is not a double standard. This is a singular standard for Israel. This is not about international law. It is about an obsessive, compulsive need to constantly pick at the Jewish state,” she said.
After receiving applause from the audience, Glick continued: “No, I do not want to be proud that you are looking at us in a different standard from our neighbors because you are not looking at our neighbors as human beings.
“What you are saying is that they are objects. The only actor in this entire region are the people they are trying to annihilate.
“The only people who are supposed to be judged for our actions, and always poorly, are the people who are doing everything possible – more than Europe, more than the US, more than anyone – in order to protect the lives of the Palestinians,” she said.
Deft. Succinct. Well-aimed.
What Michael Gerson (GWB speechwriter) characterized as “the soft bogotry of low expectations.”
M Devolin Said:
You have won my Seal of approval!!!!
“When the going gets tough, the weak surrender.”
Right you are, Yamit. Or as George Foreman said of his opponents, “You just get to know someone and they’re gone.”
@ yamit82:
A la rodillas On your knees
honeybee Said:
Lo rodillas? Cuyas rodillas?
@ yamit82:
a su rodillas
@ honeybee:
yamit82 Said:
Yo se !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
honeybee Said:
🙂 Ya Think? 😉
yamit82 Said:
She just did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
honeybee Said:
honeybee Said:
Only one person who can successfully command that of me.
yamit82 Said:
On your knees,Yamit82 !!!!
@ M Devolin:
When the going gets tough, the weak surrender.
@ bernard ross:
The government and every politicall figure in Israel should be repeating the message until it sinks in the minds of the Europeans and Americans. Israel should never back off. If they have their conferences and do not invite Israel in that case Israel have the right to exercise their right and annex the land that belongs to the Jewish people. She was as angry as I get when anyone attack Israel. My blood pressure rises and smoke comes out of my ear. Most of the encounters have been with Jews. The Europeans are slime.
“May the Europeans disdain towards our people be their demise.”
They are already experiencing their demise, mar55, as Yamit points out. “The curse causeless shall not come.”
@ yamit82:
really, I thought it was in Israel, I have seen this before, whats the story behind it, or is there no story
@ bernard ross:
Mt. Kilimanjaro a friend.
Well done, Caroline Glick. I wish I could have said the same so well, so many times in my life. But I would have used expletives and then they would have asked me to leave the room. But she said it so well. What I could not understand is the timid applause at the end of her speech. She must have felt so alone.
yamit82 Said:
I think stockholm syndrome re-engineered our genes
@ yamit82:
Seriously……where was it shot, who was it?
mar55 Said:
the GOI should be doing that… when all these ocuntries have their conferences they never invite Israel… Israel should ignore them and discuss nothing with them and just fob off their pressure BS, saying that they will only deal directly with their enemy and feel no rush to deal with it at all.
after all, what’s the rush?
bernard ross Said:
Yamit82 🙂
yamit82 Said:
absolutely, I liked her anger, she had enough of the BS, we need more of that kind of response, kicking them out, telling them to frack off… everyday they insult us but we insult ourselves more by not responding as it is deserved…. like caroline or Lt.Eisnor…… lets bring back eisnor to rifle butt his second danish creep.
btw I cant remember what is the famous picture of the soldier in tefillin and talit standing on the rock in the vehi sheamda video at 5:31…
btw the miracle is true right now… the return and how the enemy is all in confusion around israel from the arabs to the euros and the globe….all their evils turn to failure. Their arab spring is a bloodlusting nightmare of them killing each other; I havent heard the BDS churches lately perhaps they got my message when I said that every time they libel the Jews a christian head is chopped off in the ME by the same honor killers they support and fund. The euros are being gobbled up by the same honor killers like termites in their home, 😛
Israel is in the eye of the hurricane…for now
@ yamit82:
Bernard Ross & SHmuel HaLevi 2
I saw the video. She was superb. Her mind is very clear and sharp. The idiotic ambassador should have crawled under the rug in shame. This intelligent and courageous woman
told them what they deserved. The truth.They have not been listening to the voices of the Israeli people claiming for justice.
Israel has not asked the world for financial help. Just to hear our voices. To listen to reason, to listen to their
conscience if they have one. Instead they have been listening to the insidious Arab voices of the oil industry.
From the Saudis and the Golf countries.
May Hashem curse their perversity. They lie and vilify us
but Hashem will continue blessing the Jewish nation and all who believe in Him.
yamit82 Thank you for the beautiful video and music.
The Danish Ambassador is a pompous arse. May the Europeans disdain towards our people be their demise.
@ bernard ross:
I find it sad that some hold up Glick’s response as something wondrous rather then treating her response for what it is, an anomaly, a rare occurrence.
Shouldn’t it by now be commonplace?
You can take Jews out of the Ghetto but it may take many generations before you can take the Ghetto out of the Jew.
We got a long way to go!!!!
bernard ross Said:
No he spoke as he believes. His views mirror how most Europeans and too many gentiles and Jews view Israel and the Jewish people. They disdain us and patronize us.
Jews know how to grovel and beg and have been doing this for at least 2000 years so why blame them (Europeans)????
Just remember that Europe who didn’t want their Jews traded them for 30 million and counting Muslims. So, there is Judgement and we have front row seats. Enjoy because it will get worse for them and we can sit back and gloat with the last laugh.
Anything that happen badly for Europeans makes my heart sing and my head too!!!!!
@ bernard ross:
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eVMfNQskWc
I would love to see GOI talking with the same anger as Glick to the eurotrash
pompous danish twit is a cluless fool. Sending an idiot like that to Israel as an ambassador is an insult. Even a child would not utter the ridiculous drivel uttered by this eurodunce. Apparently denmark believes that Israel deserves the danish class dunce for an ambassador.
@ bernard ross:
He He He Ireland should not be mentioned in NYC St Patricks day festivities and Parades.
Actually I am opposed to all Gentile Holocaust commemorations. It’s apparent that the original concept and purpose of Holocaust remembrance and commemorations have not succeeded in educating the world as to the original intent.
Our Shoa has been hijacked by those very elements who were targeted to learn the message of the Jewish Holocaust. Jews are at best today incidental to most commemorations.
Holocaust has become a cottage Industry commercialized and profited by a myriad of non Jews and Jews with vested financial interests. The more universal as opposed to Jewish particular victimization has all but eliminated Jews from their own victim-hood and relevance.
This is one Jew who will not allow the Holocaust to define him.
fool danish pig tells jews what they SHOULD want…. scum.
The video works now.
Great work Caroline Glick.
We must not ever again cow to the European “standards”. The European tribes have invariably driven the whole world into gruesome world wars, monstrous genocides, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, Roman Circus posting humans to be devoured by animals, the Europeans performed many wars of invasion, raped resources from most of the world and do that to this day, they joined and gained from enslavement of African tribes…
Those horrors have stopped at nothing to harm and pillage others.
Israel’s diplomats must act in the fashion Mrs. Glick is doing. The concentration camp Jew mentality has to go.
Our internal unJewish enemies must be taken into freely elected courts for judgment.
KOL HAKAVOD Mrs Glick.