Thanks for the post, Dennis.
Another question might be why the sorry,miserable leftists in this country hates Israel?!
Basically these sorts of threads are garbage.
First you have to buy into the propaganda that "Europe Hates Israel".
Does this serve some particular purpose in the Zionist cause?
This article is right on the money. The fact is the Euros have a lot of colonial oppression and screwups to feel guilty about. Especially in the Middle East. Britain used the Arabs to defeat the Turks in WWI, promising them an Arab state. Then, the Brits and French double crossed the Arabs and divided all the "good" territory among themselves for colonies, leaving the Arabs with the Arabian peninsula, which they thought worthless. When the Euro's granted their colonies independence after WWII, they carved the Middle East into countries with no historical cohesiveness or independent traditions, ruled by monarchs installed by the Euros. The situation was tailor made for instablillty, revolution and war.
No wonder the Euros are only too happy to transfer the guilt for this mess to the Israelis. And besides, the Euro economies now depend on the oil their former colonies produce. They gussie up a policy of ruthless self-interest with a bunch of socialist, progressive-sounding, slogans.