The emperor is stark naked
The emperor is stark naked, Israel Hayom, Judith Bergman, July 22, 2015
It did not take the Europeans long to approve the Iran nuclear deal. On Monday, less than a week after the deal was finalized, the European Union had already given its blessing. Given the fact that the EU is a massive body consisting of 28 countries that rarely agree on any foreign policy issues, certainly not those of such a magnitude, it is rather noteworthy that they could find such sweet unison over the most infamous political deal since Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler.
”It is a balanced deal that means Iran won’t get an atomic bomb,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, “It is a major political deal.”
Sure it is.
Especially for the likes of France and Germany, which can barely contain themselves at the prospect of doing business with the Iranian regime. It has been 12 years since the Europeans could legally engage in trade with the genocidal, misogynistic, homophobic and generally murderous regime of the mullahs and they are not wasting any time, now that the opportunity has resurfaced.
In fact, the ink was barely dry on the nuclear deal when German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel — who also happens to be economy and energy minister and is therefore as senior a German official as Germany could get without actually sending Angela Merkel herself — rushed himself and a group of representatives from German companies and industry groups onto a plane for a three-day visit to Iran.
Trying, yet utterly failing, to make the trip appear a little more dignified than the simple naked greed that it represents, the vice chancellor “urged Iran at the start of [the] three-day visit to improve its relationship with Israel if it wanted to establish closer economic ties with Germany and other Western powers,” according to Reuters.
If Germany wanted Iran to take that poor show of accommodating Israeli concerns seriously, it might have tried to contain itself just a little longer to at least see whether the U.S. Congress approves the deal. However, as we all know, time is money and the Germans are well known for being efficient.
Yet, the Germans are far from the only ones lining up for immediate business with the Iranians. Fabius is due to visit Iran next week. “I find it completely normal that after this historic deal was signed, France and Iran should restart normal relations,” Fabius said. Before the sanctions took effect, French companies Peugeot and Renault were making billions of euros from their involvement with the Iranian auto industry. Similarly, French company Total was heavily involved in the oil sector. France is not missing a beat in bringing this lucrative trade back into la République.
The French employers’ federation, MEDEF, is due to visit Iran in September. So is Austria. The EU, which is eager to find alternative suppliers of energy at a time when relations with Russia are rather tense, may reopen an EU delegation in Tehran.
Notice how the European political elites consider it, in the French foreign minister’s words, “completely normal” to do business with a heinous regime like Iran, which breaks every single rule in the book of human rights, the bible from which the Europeans pedantically lecture Israel on every possible occasion. It is ostensibly in the name of those very same human rights that the EU wants to boycott Israeli products in order to avoid choking on an Israeli orange from beyond the Green Line.
Yet these days the streets of Europe are eerily quiet and completely devoid of protests, as the citizens of Europe demonstrably could not care less about the fact that their countries will now once again be trading in a major way with the Iranian regime.
Where is the outrage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the EU, out of commercial considerations for the lucrative trade and oil flowing from such a deal, has supported the agreement with Iran? Where are the boycotts, divestment and sanctions? Where are the flotillas?
What European lawmaker, bureaucrat or ordinary citizen cares at all that women and children, political prisoners and homosexuals are tortured and summarily executed in Iran, when Iranian oil and money will now flow freely into the EU? Is it of any concern to any of the European that Iran is a regime with genocidal intentions toward Israel and cares for nothing but its own survival?
The hypocrisy and the double standards have become so thick and obvious that Hans Christian Andersen’s proverbial emperor is walking stark naked through the streets of Europe. However, should a child appear to point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes, no one would care to listen.
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WarSclerotic 
July 22, 2015 at 9:44 PM
Europe, as well as the USA is doomed, lost…For the pure love of Money and for hate of the Jews, europeans as well as the USA are comitting suicide by siding with the Hitler Regime of our days ! But the Price they will pay will be horrible !