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Showing posts with label Middle East - Jewish-Arab Conflict - European Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East - Jewish-Arab Conflict - European Union. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

EUROPE REWARDS TERROR - Spain - of Inquisition fame - recognizes the terror state of Palestine right after the Jerusalem massacre of Jews - European and American taxpayers subsidizing terror in the Palestinian Authority

The lower house of the Spanish parliament, the Congress of Deputies, passed a resolution Tuesday to recognize a Palestinian state. The vote came in the wake of a gruesome Palestinian terror attack Tuesday morning that targeted Jews praying at a synagogue in West Jerusalem, which drew widespread international condemnation.
PA delegate to Spain, Musa Amer Odeh, celebrates vote in Spanish parliament
The resolution received the support of all political parties.
 
The support for Palestinian statehood follows similar resolutions in the UK, Sweden, and Ireland, and is conditional on a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.  
 
Photo shows PA delegate to Spain, Musa Amer Odeh, as he celebrates the vote by the Spanish parliament/
 
It is merely symbolic--but on a day of terror, is a potent symbol indeed.
 
The nonbinding text approved by Spanish lawmakers urges Spanish government to recognize “Palestine” as a state, albeit only after Israel and the Palestinians reach a negotiated solution • Wording was watered down due to Jerusalem terrorist attack. 
 
Still, the timing of the vote alone was brutally offensive.
 
Spain has the high dishonor of having been the seat of the Inquisition, where thousands of Jews were tortured, murdered, burned alive. 

Thursday, September 25, 2014

GERMAN TAXPAYERS FUNDING WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, now under the guise of pro-Palestinian activism - The historic alliance of Muslims and Germans for the destruction of the Jews dates back to the Third Reich

EUROPE outsourcing the killing of Jews to the Arabs.
 
Important and relevant points regarding German-Palestinian old ties - whether the Germans were Nazis, Communists, or capitalists.  How anti-Semitism brought them together.

Palestinian Leader al-Husseini in Nazi Germany
Post-war Germany has a long history of financing, arming, and abetting Arab terror groups that kill Jews. 

Communist East Germany did just that, with its open support for Palestinian terrorists. 

And West Germany - in spite of its professed capitalism and democracy - also did its part to help and finance Arabs who terrorized and killed Jews. 

After the German unification those anti-Israel efforts merged as well, and now we have Germany directly funding the Palestinians, and indirectly funding German groups of activists engaged in active vilification of Israel and the Jews.  

That old tradition.  As a matter of fact, the German Nazis and the Palestinian leader at that time worked hand in hand in the design and implementation of the Final Solution. 

This is a page of history that the media, educational institutions, peace activists, and even historians would rather ignore.  But there are a number of books that have addressed this important chapter in Arab and German history.

Haj Amin al-Husseini - Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestinian leader during the 1940s - was very much a part of the Nazi killing machine that destroyed 6 million Jewish lives.  He lived in Berlin during World War II, and was an enthusiastic partner in the design and implementation of the Holocaust, working alongside Hitler and his top cohorts. 
 
The Mufti with Muslim Nazi SS Division
He even created his own Muslim Nazi SS Division, guilty of gruesome crimes in eastern Europe.  He escaped to the Middle East to avoid a trial for war crimes. 
 
His post-war disciples, Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas became Palestinian leaders, infused with genocidal ideology.

Hitler and Nazi ideas are well and alive in the Palestinian territories, with the display of Nazi flags, eulogies to Hitler, and the official Nazi salute during military and political rallies.

Read references at the end of this page.  These are things that do not make it to the mainstream media.  

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List of articles on this page,
 followed by references:
  • German taxpayers funding anti-Israel hate
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at rally against anti-Semitism
  • Germany sees rising anti-Semitism among Muslims
  • NGO Monitor report: German funding for anti-Israel activism
  • Old habits die hard - Germany has been funding Arab terrorism since the Nazi years
  • Palestinian Arabs:  Nazis then, Nazis now - The facts
  • The Communists too joined the war against Israel, by funding, training and arming Arab terrorists

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German taxpayers funding anti-Israel hate

By Vijeta Uniyal

Despite Chancellor Merkel’s recent high-profile call to fight rising anti-Semitism, the German tax payer remains one of the leading sponsors of hate groups targeting Israel and the Jewish people. It's got to stop
 
A week after Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her government’s commitment to fight anti-Semitism at a landmark rally in Berlin, a lot needs to be done on the ground to stop the rising tide of anti-Semitism.
 
German authorities go beyond apathy to outright facilitating anti-Jewish hate activities
 
At home, German Law enforcement authorities have not only shown apathy and inaction, as in the case of the Muslim Imam in Berlin who called for the extermination of Jews, or against demonstrators in many German cities blaring anti-Semitic slogans. Police have sometimes seemed to go out of their way, allowing demonstrators to use police-megaphones and vehicles to spread the hate – as in Frankfurt and Hagen recently.
 
Germany is the leading financial sponsor of genocidal anti-Jewish organizations - many hiding behind pro-Arab humanitarian disguises.
 
Internationally, the German tax payer remains a leading sponsor of NGOs and groups that target Israel and the Jewish people.
Continued

Thursday, August 28, 2014

EU CALLS FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE - Oblivious to genocidal Palestinian ideology, and a Middle East full of failed states, bloody tyrannies, and widespread carnage and abuse of human rights

EU Calls For Ceasefire to Lead to 'Two State (FINAL) Solution'
 
EU says comprehensive agreement, not return to status quo, needed in Gaza; calls for end of blockade and full Hamas PA unity government.
 
EU FA Chief Catherine Ashton & US Sec State John Kerry
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday welcomed a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza, calling for more talks to bring a "comprehensive and sustainable agreement."
 
"Simply returning to the situation before the latest conflict is not an option," said a statement from the bloc's diplomatic arm, the European External Action Service (EEAS).
 
"A sustainable agreement should address all the root causes of the conflict and bring fundamental change to the situation in Gaza," added EEAS.
 
It is worth noting that Hamas as early as two weeks ago stated clearly that its intentions of accepting a truce are so as to plan the next terror war on Israel.
 
The EU added that "a durable peace can only be achieved through the resumption of the Middle East peace process, leading to a two-state solution."
 
US Secretary of State John Kerry's push for a peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel were torpedoed in April, when the PA signed a unity deal with the terrorist group Hamas.
 
Indeed, the EU welcomed that unity deal, despite the fact that Hamas is on the EU's list of terrorist organizations. That listing specifically includes both "Hamas" and "Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem," meaning that both the military and governmental branches of Hamas are recognized as terror groups by the EU.
 
The EU likewise on Wednesday called for an end to the blockade of the terror haven of Gaza, a unity government between the PA and Hamas in completion of the process begun in April, and lastly, the cessation of rocket fire from Gaza.

Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184492#.U_9AN5sg-M8

RELATED

GIVE THEM A STATE?

'Moderate' Palestinian Authority denies Israel's right to exist - In their own words
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=433

More on what Palestinian officials say about Israel and the Jews - in their own words
http://www.palwatch.org/

Iran arming 'moderate' Palestinian Authority
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-says-it-has-begun-arming-west-bank/

Israel security agency finds arms smugglers in the north
http://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-busts-hezbollah-arms-smugglers-in-the-north/

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SUBMITTING TO ANTI-SEMITIC EUROPEAN BOYCOTT and collaborating by discriminating against export goods from Israelis living across the Green Line

Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce from communities beyond the Green Line, in keeping in line with EU directives. 
 
Yellowbadge logo.svgFor Israeli authorities this is the equivalent of attaching  a yellow star armband on Israelis living on Jewish land that the formerly genocidal Europe refuses to recognize as Israeli.

This is agreeing with those who delegitimize Israeli ownership of the land that has been Jewish for thousands of years, and who demand the surrender of such land to descendants of Muslims who arrived as conquerors and occupiers.
 
Judea and Samaria - the land that the Arabs want to appropriate for themselves - is ancient Jewish land, its history written on the Bible and on countless history books.  International law recognizes Israel's right to the land. 
 
HOWEVER, Israeli leaders have for many decades submitted to the dictates of those who either perpetrated massacres of Jews and the Holocaust, or were complicit with it.
 
After humiliating, torturing, and murdering millions of Jews over the centuries, Europe has NO RIGHT to tell Jews where in their homeland they are allowed to live and build. 

Europeans did not want Jews in Europe, and now they don't want them on Jewish land, either. 
 
Do not buy from Jews - Nazi Germany boycott
The truth is that they don't want them anywhere, period.   They are advocating partition so that Israel will once again be merely 9 miles wide, thus easy prey for Arab terror.  
 
Europe should be ashamed!
 
And so should those authorities in Israel who submit to Europe's humiliating discriminatory practices. 
 
Europeans - both Muslims and Fascists - are persecuting and killing Jews like never before since the Second World War. 
 
But European governments continue to put pressure on Israel - the only civilized country in the Middle East - while ignoring the horrors perpetrated by Islam in other parts of the region.
 
What is also very important to understand is that Palestinians collaborated with the Holocaust.  Europe and the US government are asking Jews to reward Nazis with Jewish land. 

The Mufti of Jerusalem, the leader of Arabs living in Palestine during the Nazi years, lived in Berlin, and collaborated with Adolf Hitler and other top Nazis in the design and implementation of the Final Solution - the destruction of European Jews.
 
Although he was a war criminal, he managed to return to the Middle East to indoctrinate a new leadership for the destruction of Israel, among others Yassir Arafat (a relative) and Mahmoud Abbas, current president of the Palestinian Authority.
 
There is a direct link between the Holocaust and today's Palestinian nationalist movement.
 
Nazi flag flown in Arab town in Israel
Which means that the survivors of the Holocaust are being asked to reward the perpetrators of the Holocaust with Jewish land for the creation of a Nazi Muslim state.
 
Nazi flags are flown in Palestinian towns, and the rhetoric among clerical and political leaders is suffused with Nazi terminology.   Adolf Hitler is often eulogized by Palestinians. 
 
See references for the above information after the following article.
 
 
 
Israel to Stop Exports of 'Settlement Products' to the European Union
 
Israel National News - Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce from communities beyond the Green Line, in keeping in line with EU directives.
 
Israel will end its export of poultry and dairy produce to the European Union from Jewish communities beyond the Green Line, Israeli and European officials said on Sunday, according to AFP.
 
The restrictions stem from directives issued by the European Commission in February and affect chicken and milk products from communities in eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Judea and Samaria.
 
"In keeping with previous decisions, the EU no longer recognized the authority of the veterinary inspections services of Israel to approve the export of poultry and (dairy products), the origin of which are in settlements," a European official told AFP.
 
The official said that during discussions over implementation of the directives, the "Israelis were asked to put in place a system of distinguishing between the origins of dairy products and poultry."
 
"If that is put in place that won't affect poultry and dairy products exported from Israel," the official said, noting the new directives would be effective from September 1.
 
An Israeli official involved in the affair told AFP that the agriculture ministry had recently issued directives to poultry and dairy manufacturers to "prepare for the EU decision and separate manufacturing lines, to enable the continued export to the Europe" without including products from “settlements”.
 
The official said that Israeli export of products from areas beyond the Green Line to Europe was not significant and catered mainly for Jews who observe religious dietary laws and eat kosher food.
 
Months ago, the EU published new guidelines which boycott Israeli entities operating beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. This caused tension between the EU and Israel, which warned that it might shun a key EU research program unless a compromise is found over the boycotting guidelines.
 
An Israeli official slammed the move as a European way to bypass problematic legislation that would single out the Jewish state.
 
"The EU has for a long time tried to find ways to mark settlement produce, or even prevent its import to Europe, but failed to accomplish such regulation since it's legally problematic, and also involves breaching trade agreements," the official told AFP.
 
The EU, the official added, doesn't want to impose any universal regulations on products from "disputed areas" such as Cyprus, Western Sahara or Kosovo.
 
So instead it used the European Commission, which is a bureaucratic body, to enforce a political stance against Israel, he said.
 
Plans to label “settlement products” have been in the works for more than a year, when the EU formally recommended that Israeli activity in Judea and Samaria be “prevented” through an economic boycott of Jewish industry in those regions. Such a move would affect tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who are employed in Jewish-owned industry in the area.
 
EU foreign ministers, including Britain’s William Hague and Laurent Fabius of France, indicated at one point they would back the labeling initiative, but it was later reported that the plans were postponed after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry intervened.
 
 
 
JUDEA AND SAMARIA
 
Judea and Samaria
JUDEA AND SAMARIA TOWN  (Flash 90 picture)
This is the land that Muslims who came from the Arabian peninsula, and later from other parts of the Ottoman Empire, now claim for themselves - with the help of genocidal Europe. 

This is what the world calls "the West Bank".  It never belonged to any country except Israel.
 
The word Palestine was used by the Roman occupiers to designate the area after defeating Judea.  It was an attempt to destroy all memory of the Jews. 
 
Arabs are not really "Palestinians", since they came from other lands as conquerors and occupiers.
 
Many of the most significant events in the Bible occurred in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
 
Long before the Romans invaded the Land of Israel and long before Ottomans ruled the area, it was here that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jewish nation’s forefathers, cared for their flocks. 
 
It was here that Jacob travelled from Laban to the Land of Israel. And it was here that Joshua Bin Nun drove out the Canaanite nations out of the land.
 
Judea is a mountainous and dry region, located west of the Jordan River. It varies in height, rising from an altitude of 1,020 meters above sea level in the south at Mount Hebron, to as much as 400 meters below sea level in the east.
 
Within Judea are three distinct geographical areas, namely the Judean Wilderness in the eastern valley, the Judean Hills in the center and the Coastal Plain, which extends west to the Mediterranean Sea.
 
Samaria extends over a distance of 1,000 square miles. It begins 15 miles east of Tel Aviv and stretches to the hills overlooking the Jordan Valley. Samaria makes up 10% of the Land of Israel.  The Jordan Valley is 120 kilometers long and about 15 kilometers wide. It forms the border between Israel and Jordan in the north.

Source - http://www.israellandfund.com/en-us/info/regions/judea-samaria-and-the-jordan-valley.htm
 
 
THE PALESTINIAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENT HAS ROOTS IN NAZI GERMANY
 
 
Palestinian militia making Nazi salute
 
 Resources:
 
If you only have time for one of these items, please watch the 15 minute video at the top of this list.
      
 
Photo shows the Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Hitler.  The Mufti was an important participant in the planning of the Final Solution for the extermination of all Jews, and worked hand in hand with top Nazis in Hitler's circle.
 
He was the creator of an SS Muslim Division guilty of gruesome crimes in Europe.  He should have been tried at Nuremberg.  Instead, he managed to return to the Middle East to train a younger generation of Muslim Nazis, among them Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas.
 
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One cannot understand today's turbulent world without knowing more about the following:  
Radical Islamic Jihad and pan-Arabism in its violent form find a common root in Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He is the vector of European fascism into the modern Islamic world, both religious and secular.
 
 
 
Not surprisingly, today's Mufti of Jerusalem has vociferously called for the killing of Jews.
 
PA's highest religious authority, the Mufti, at Fatah event:   Muslims' destiny is to kill Jews -  Resurrection will come only after Jews are killed by Muslims
Read more -
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6098
 
PA Mufti Hussein defends his speech citing Hadith (basic Muslim doctrine) about killing Jews
 
On Jan. 9, 2012, PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein, delivered a speech presenting the killing of Jews by as a religious Islamic goal.
 
 
GIVING ARABS ANOTHER STATE WILL SOLVE NOTHING
 
 
Map of Arab Countries vs. Israel
 
The red sliver of land is Israel, which the world wants to partition to give Arabs another state.  The countries in green on the map are all Arab countries.  Why would they need more land?

No, it is not land that they want.  It is the destruction of Israel.  Just look at how much trauma they have caused with their terror, their rockets, and their infiltration tunnels. They think that a smaller Israel would be easier to defeat. 
 
But it's not mere Arab political opposition to a Jewish state in the Middle East.  Their opposition is based on religion.  Muslims believe that once a land has been under their domination, it belongs to them forever, and it is their sacred duty to retake it.  Thus you sometimes hear of Muslims' goal of retaking Spain, for example, where once they ruled.
 
So no matter how much Israel tries to appease Arabs with the offer of "Two States for Two Peoples", as the Prime Minister unfortunately announced only a few years ago, that will never be enough.  Their ultimate goal - as evidenced by their speeches and writings - is to capture all of Israel and to destroy all Jewish presence on the land.
 
REFERENCES  
 
Palestinians envision a world without Israel
Palestinian Media Watch news archive
  
Muslims call for retaking Spain
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4616/islamic-state-spain#

Further reading:

Myths and Facts about the Israeli-Arab conflict
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/

The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine - What really happened.
 http://debunkingliesandmyths.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-mandate-for-palestine-facts.html
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

PRO-PALESTINIAN ASIAN DEMONSTRATORS TRASH BRITISH STORE - They made their point about their disagreement with Tesco's purchasing practices by being aggressive to shoppers and staff, and throwing products all over the place. Victims traumatized.

Protest: Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around today as Gaza protestors 'wreaked havoc' in a Tesco store. Above, members of staff are pictured with damaged boxes of Coca Cola following the protest
One day in Britain, pro-Palestinians made their point
Just about everybody sympathizes with the Palestinians these days, and make excuses for their violence and terror.  But once that violence comes home, that's different.
 
What people don't understand is that these people are used to get what they want through violence and intimidation. 

It works for them.  They not only often get what they want, but they get additional sympathy every time they behave badly.
 
In a different form of racism, most people tend to have lower expectations from Palestinians, and Muslims in general.  As if they were incapable of exercising control over their emotions, and can't help themselves. 
Every day in Israel - Arabs making a point
These shoppers in Birmingham were lucky.  It was only threats and stuff being thrown around.  Israelis have to cope with "frustrated" rock  throwers and firebomb throwers every day in Israel, and rockets fired from Gaza. 
 
They also have to put up with murder and suicide bombers.  That's how Palestinians are used to make a point - while the world gives them money and moral support.
 
Daily Mail - Police officers attacked and stock thrown around as Gaza protestors 'wreak havoc' in Tesco store in Birmingham.
 
Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around today as Gaza protestors 'wreaked havoc' in a Tesco store. Around 100 demonstrators gathered outside the shop in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, before some of them entered the premises.  Once inside, they started hurling produce around and 'getting aggressive' - leaving both staff and shoppers traumatised.
 
Photos of the protest show more than 20 police officers trying to control demonstrators, while Tesco products are seen strewn across the floor.   West Midlands Police said one person was later arrested for assaulting its officers, while a further two had to be escorted from the premises.
 
Today, Tesco customers took to social media to share their experiences of the protest against the Gaza conflict, which resulted in nearby roads being cordoned off by police.  One told Birminghamupdates.com: 'I was just in the Tesco in Hodge Hill, scanning my items and I heard chanting. 
 
Then a group of Asian men holding Palestinian flags came walking in and starting to push products over and getting aggressive with staff and shoppers.  Police officers tried to stop them but I ran out.'
 
The protestors, many of whom were waving flags and placards, were calling on Tesco to stop all trade with Israeli agricultural companies.  This evening, Twitter users condemned the demonstrators' actions, which many deemed 'wrong' and 'idiotic'.
 
A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: 'Our officers dealt with a protest at Tesco Hodge Hill this morning where some disorder was reported. One arrested for assaulting police.  The protest was largely peaceful among the 100 protesters but some began throwing stock inside Tesco store. Two escorted from premises.'
 
A spokesman for Tesco said the demonstration resulted in 'minimal damage' to goods.  He added that the store was closed for 'just a few minutes' before it was reopened.
 

RELATED - PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE

Just a normal day in Israel  -  Rabbi injured by rock-throwers

Prominent Israeli Rabbi Moshe Levinger Injured in Rock Attack
 
79-year-old Rabbi Levinger is one of the founders of the modern-day Jewish community in Hevron, whose ancient Jewish community was wiped out during the 1929 Hebron Massacre by local Arabs.
 
Rabbi Levinger receives first aid treatment
Rabbi Levinger being treated
Rabbi Levinger was among several Jewish motorists targeted as they traveled along Route 60, close to the Jewish village of Carmei Tzur.

A gang of Arab youths ambushed his car and pelted it with rocks, shattering his window as well as the front passenger window. The rabbi was treated for light head wounds at Kiryat Arba medical center.
 His son and head of the Kiryat Arba-Hevron Regional Council, Malachi Levinger, condemned the attack, saying: "Terror has reared its head and dared to indiscriminately attack Jews in every city in the country.  It is important that those murderers know that every rock like this only deepens our roots here in the land of our forefathers, and every blow plants more firmly and strengthens our beliefs and our hold on the land," he added.
 

Levinger termed the fact that his father had emerged relatively lightly from the attack "a miracle", but warned that that fact should not lead to complacency. Many others had been killed or maimed in similar attacks, he said, "and therefore I call on the security forces to act with as firm a hand has they can against these rioters, and bring to bear the fullest extent of the law against them."


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Burn Victim in Judea Firebomb Terror Attack
 
Arab terrorists threw a molotov cocktail on Saturday night at an Israeli car near Bethlehem, in the Gush Etzion area of Judea, leaving the driver of the car suffering from moderate wounds.
 
After the firebomb exploded, inflicting damage on the car, a 40-year-old resident of Beitar Ilit driving the car was inflicted with first- and second-degree burns, as well as as a cut to his head, apparently from a stone that was also thrown in the attack.



Britain's future - The most common baby name now is MOHAMMED in a variety of spellings.

The top three spellings alone accounted for the names of 7,445 boys, easily beating the second most popular name Oliver which got just 6,949. Also the statistics are only published for the top 100 names, so the even more obscure spellings of Mohammed are likely to push the total even higher.

Just think about it.  All those past heroic sacrifices for Britain's freedom.  And now the country submits to the invasion of a population with the mindset of 7th century Arabian peninsula.  All in the name of multiculturalism.  
 
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

SHOCKING EXPOSE OF HOW EUROPEAN UNION BUREAUCRACY WASTES TAXPAYERS' MONEY - EU countries also generously finance subversion and terror in Israel


By Leo Mckinstry - Daily Mail

 
EU Rep. Catherine Ashton

The shocking fact is that the EU’s bloated civil service continues to live in a world of extraordinary privilege — and all funded by hard-pressed taxpayers from across the Continent. 

 

Next Thursday, millions of Britons will vote in the European elections to return more than 70 MEPs, yet in doing so they will effectively be endorsing the continuing expansion of the entire European project, mired as it is in greed, corruption and a blinkered sense of the rightness of its very existence.
 
The sign in the Brussels office foyer perfectly summed up the farce. ‘The European External Action Service will be on strike this Wednesday until 5.30pm, before the summer party. If you are coming from Luxembourg, you can claim a travel allowance.’