Omission is a criminal offence.

Even though no court will label a failure to act as a crime, especially when it comes to humanitarian issues, the fact that the entirety of the European Union is not only doing NOTHING effective to stop the Israeli's from murdering an entire nation, the European Union is, through their inaction and relative silence, consenting to Israel’s inhumanity.

It's simply not enough to voice strong words against Israel, or to threaten or impose sanctions. Those words will not feed millions of people. Germany is taking it to another level, by criminalizing peaceful protestors and calling them "antisemitic" - as if protesting against a Jewish pogrom to wipe out an entire nation is being antisemetic, when in fact, it is a protest against the Israeli war and humanitarian crimes they are committing against civilians, not the Hamas, but CIVILIANS.

The EU is complicit in this campaign of extermination by the very fact that they are taking NO effective action to stop it, moreover, standing by while an entire nation is being starved into extinction, when they could easily air-drop enough food, water and medical supplies to counter the Israeli attempt to starve the Palestinians into nonexistence.

There are no political explanations for this "crime of omission" on the part of the European Union, and clearly, there are other dynamics in play that make it more important to do nothing and watch an entire nation disappear, and even arrest and criminalize people who are trying to do something to stop it.

There is no question that the "United" States will do NOTHING, and has done NOTHING to stop it, because they will do anything to keep Israel in their ball park, and as such, are supplying most of the weapons and bombs being used against Palestine.

But the EU, with it is supposed platform of humanitarian principles, is right this minute entirely hypocritical and soiling their hands with the blood of thousands of children, women and men, civilians, whom they are letting die because for whatever reason, "Israel has a right to defend itself".

Oddly enough, I don't see Palestinian people killing Israelis.

We should be proud to be part of the EU, especially when it was created to unify the European nations and to ensure no more blood spilled on its lands - but that pride is being soiled and blemished by crimes of omission being committed by leaders we entrust to do the RIGHT thing, not the “acceptable” thing.

Réal Laplaine

Author of high-concept thrillers

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