Gaza as the EU's Second Front

American Thinker ^ | July 29, 2014 | David Archibald

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Gaza as the EU's Second Front

By David Archibald

As Glenn Reynolds has reminded us, the EU has been the major funder of the Palestinians in Gaza and is well aware that 250 million Euros-odd a year of their funding goes to buying weapons for attacking Israel. Eleven years ago, European Union Parliament member Ilka Schroeder noted that the Europeans saw themselves as the future global power and that, in effect, their support for the Palestinians should be understood as a proxy war by the Europeans against the United States. That sounds bizarre but the Europeans have done it before.

[Rashputin]

Very short and to the point article. But still, has to be excerpted.

[caveat emptor]

Sheesh. Die Deutschen und die Juden. Weider.

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And no filthy rich Muzzie ever met a neo-Nazi they didn’t like so lack of money won’t keep them from going the distance.

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The article is not so short and to the point. I was puzzled as to what the "second front" might be, without a clue as to what the "first front" is/was.
As with so many arguments, in the debate sense, accepting the premise is often the first trap.
I would need much more discussion before I buy into the fact that alternative energy "push" by Europeans was the "first front" via the creation of the "carbon credit" scam, which in fact did threaten financial chaos in the U.S.

But the stupid U.S. citizens didn't buy the phantom credits, and the house of cards collapsed, and the Europeans only achieved bankrupting themselves.

Decades ago the Europeans realised that their anti-business regulations made them uncompetitive with the United States. Instead of improving themselves they decided to hobble American industry using global warming as the pretext. Thus the baseline year for determining change in emissions of carbon dioxide is 1990. That is the year that communism fell apart in Eastern Europe and coal consumption there plunged.
So meeting the emissions reductions the Europeans demanded of others would be a shoe-in for themselves.

Here's where the article lost me. How does the end of the use of coal answer their prayer for a source of alternate energy other than traditional petroleum based system?

As for the "second front," I think it's absurd to believe that supporting Hamas in its attempt to destroy Israel somehow creates a new burden for the U.S.
No one in the E.U has noticed that Obama actually supports the Hamas Mass murderers?

Perhaps the third front might make sense.
The suicidal new concept of wars of "proportionality" of response. The goal is no longer to make wars as short s possible, but to make them as fair as possible.

What sort of idiots are European countries creating these days?

It has never occurred to these new world types that if Israel fought a war of proportionality, they would be lobbing bigger and better unguided missiles into Gaza by the thousands and never worry about where they land. We know the Muslim Mass Murderers certainly have no human worries in that regard.

Here's a thought. Simple and simpleminded, but guaranteed effective :

Don't fire rockets into Israel, Use concrete for useful constructions rather than tunnels to oblivion, and Gaza can be as peaceful as you care to make it.

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BUMP!

[Always A Marine]

As we fret over the phony threat of Putin’s Russia, Brussels sinks it bureaucratic tentacles deeper and deeper into Europe’s once-sovereign nations. The world is changing faster than we ever imagined, and real threat is not from Moscow.

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"Here's where the article lost me."

Obviously. Our no longer using coal drives our energy prices up, reduces our once abundant inexpensive electricity output down to a level on par with their output, and so on.

They know they can't match the US unless they cripple the US. Whatever they can do to drive up military and/or energy costs makes us easier to match.

Whether or not it makes sense depends on whether or not you believe the EU was serious about what they said with regard to matching the US as a world power.

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Very true. Russia is an alternative source of energy to the ME ragheads and what happens? Suddenly Russia is the evil empire again with Ukraine attracting attention while Hamas and ISIS build up for their current offensives.

Too convenient by half.

Sempr Fi