Now is the time for Europe to divorce itself from the AIPAC-controlled, American foreign policy on Israel that accepts gross human rights violations i.e. the killing of 900 civilians in Gaza, in January last, which included the deliberate killing of 320 children and the illegal use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon.

The official United Nations Report of the Fact Finding Mission. April/May 2009 by independent South African jurist, Judge Goldstone, concluded that there were:

1. Deliberate attacks by the Israeli army on civilians

2. 1400 Gazans were killed in three weeks

3. There was illegal use of white phosphorus

4. Israel violated the right to free movement

5. Dehumanization was carried out

6. There was illegal torture and punishment

7. There were violations of international human rights and humanitarian law

8. There was arbitrary deprivation of life

Obviously the United States will act as it, or the American Israel lobby group, sees fit - but Europe will hopefully conform to the principles of democracy, international law, the Geneva Conventions on Human Rights and basic morality.

The armies of western democratic nations would never be ordered to target civilians, unarmed women and innocent children.  It is incumbent, therefore, for Europe to show its condemnation of such acts of barbarity.