Si Israël ne s'estime pas en droit de donner des leçons aux Luxembourgeois, les Luxembourgeois - comme la plupart des Européens - par contre ne s'en privent pas. Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ne compte qu'un demi million d'habitants, mais son gouvernement s'y connaît en Israël-bashing. En effet Jean Asselborn, le jovial ministre des Affaires étrangères, dit haut et fort qu'Israël est le seul responsable de l'impasse dans le processus de paix entre Isréliens et Palestiniens et voudrait que la très vertueuse Union européenne gèle ses relations avec Israël. En visite au Proche-Orient, le chef de la diplomatie luxembourgeoise a confié au Jerusalem Post : "Il y a d'autres problèmes dans le monde, mais ce problème-ci est pour moi le plus crucial".
Source: JPost '‘How can an intelligent people only see the short term?, Herb Keinon)
Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, who was here last week as part of a regional tour that also took him to Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, is someone Netanyahu would most likely place in the “true believer” category.
Asselborn, who places the onus for the stagnation in the diplomatic process squarely on Israel’s shoulders, who says it should remove “the wall” and let Gazans come to work here, and who advised it not to be a prisoner of its own security concerns, said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that “there are other problems in the world, but this problem here is the most crucial one for me.”
One would be ill advised to dismiss the words of the warm and jovial Asselborn as unimportant because he is the foreign minister of a state with just over half a million people. Rather, his words are illustrative, and echo how significant swaths of Europe – from Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to Swedish foreign Minister Carl Bildt and numerous influential politicians on the continent in between – now view Israel.
Lire l'article complet sur le site du JPost
Aucun commentaire :
Enregistrer un commentaire