In case you missed it, the EU and its powers are under criticism now from many countries including the UK and France. Farage and Le Penn are gaining in political power over immigration and the EU. The UK will be holding a referendum, if you believe Cameron, on whether the UK will continue to remain in the EU.
There are more politically divergent views in the parliaments in Europe than there are in the US Congress with the two major parties controlling the political agenda and dialogue. Both parties have abandoned the American worker and become surrogates of their corporate paymasters. They are two wings of the same party.
Our individual liberties are under assault with the bureaucrats holding sway whether it is the IRS, EPA, NSA, or the political elites. The vast majority of Americans believe this country is on the wrong track and the approval of Congress is at an all-time low. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Dismissing their views of Israel speaks volumes.
Actually, most of the world holds those views. We are Israel's principal supporter and protector. I don't have a problem with that, but to ignore the fact that Europe's views are not that much different than those held around the world is not being intellectually honest.
The UK wants to leave the EU (except Scotland apparently); the only “criticism” from France is out of a paltry few, and certainly not Front National or the Socialists. Apart from that, political disengagement is the norm.
My point is that “Europe’s” views of Israel are “not much different from” the so-called “most of the world”—and that is the danger. Those views are based on lies and cannot be dismissed.
We do not live in a glass house. The glass house was built around us surreptitiously, and stones are one way out of it when the liberals are trying to lock us in. “Europe” helped in the building of said glass house.