New Posts For Thread: EU corrects Ashton speech transcript after Israeli angerhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_angerI agree with Dany Ayalon this is a bizarre chain of events. Why was the speech doctored so as to remove the part about Sderot and only returned after it was brought to wider attention? Who writes the transcripts? Is there anything else that was leftNo one ever said you had to be sane to be a politician or hold office.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517825757#517825757No one ever said you had to be sane to be a politician or hold office.Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:33:59 -0500I think the comparison is somewhat good, yes. But then, Lieberman (a) isn't taken really serious either, and (b) at least is a real foreign minister and not merely head of a superfluous & powerless bureaucratic entity.I didn't know Ken Livingstone wahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517824933#517824933I think the comparison is somewhat good, yes. But then, Lieberman (a) isn't taken really serious either, and (b) at least is a real foreign minister and not merely head of a superfluous & powerless bureaucratic entity.I didn't know Ken Livingstone waThu, 22 Mar 2012 17:14:40 -0500Normally, I would not bring this up but someone thinks I am picking on Europeans. Honestly, if I were it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. Sadly, there is real reason for concern, whether anyone wishes to admit it or not. Ken Livingstone: Jewshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517814981#517814981Normally, I would not bring this up but someone thinks I am picking on Europeans. Honestly, if I were it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. Sadly, there is real reason for concern, whether anyone wishes to admit it or not. Ken Livingstone: JewsThu, 22 Mar 2012 13:09:12 -0500More thoughts on the Affair Ashton and the European response to anti-Israel, anti-Israeli, and anti-semetic agitation and incitementShould we laugh or cry over Catherine Ashton’s remarks about Toulouse massacre?. . .The new transcript of Catherhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517813871#517813871More thoughts on the Affair Ashton and the European response to anti-Israel, anti-Israeli, and anti-semetic agitation and incitementShould we laugh or cry over Catherine Ashton’s remarks about Toulouse massacre?. . .The new transcript of CatherThu, 22 Mar 2012 12:39:30 -0500But her influence in the rest of the world is not. she is the representative of the Europeans to the Quartet, she is the European spokesman for foreign affairs. What she says as a representative of the EU matters. It is roughly the same problem whichhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517809167#517809167But her influence in the rest of the world is not. she is the representative of the Europeans to the Quartet, she is the European spokesman for foreign affairs. What she says as a representative of the EU matters. It is roughly the same problem whichThu, 22 Mar 2012 10:39:25 -0500I don't insult anyone. What you document about Mrs. Ashton doesn't amount to 'body'. She / her position is and remains one of the weakest results of European negotiation & compromise politics. Her influence on European politics is zero.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517807959#517807959I don't insult anyone. What you document about Mrs. Ashton doesn't amount to 'body'. She / her position is and remains one of the weakest results of European negotiation & compromise politics. Her influence on European politics is zero.Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:13:10 -0500From wikkiCatherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC (born 20 March 1956) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Under the Treaty of Lishttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517807173#517807173From wikkiCatherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, PC (born 20 March 1956) is a British Labour politician who in 2009 became the European Union's High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Under the Treaty of LisThu, 22 Mar 2012 09:57:10 -0500Plus, Catherine Ashton is a political nobody - a bad joke of European politics.Did anyone pay attention to anything she said before this?If not, why pay attention now?http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517798111#517798111Plus, Catherine Ashton is a political nobody - a bad joke of European politics.Did anyone pay attention to anything she said before this?If not, why pay attention now?Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:13:44 -0500Dead children are dead children. Selective outrage belittles the "in the face of terror, we are all humans" proclamation, used only when it is convenient.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517786437#517786437Dead children are dead children. Selective outrage belittles the "in the face of terror, we are all humans" proclamation, used only when it is convenient.Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:28:11 -0500more about the Ashton affairA letter to Catherine Ashton. . .The death of any and every child is a tragedy. Nevertheless, you have clustered together the victims of the Belgian bus accident, government massacres in Syria, indiscriminate murder in Norhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/44011/29009677/EU_corrects_Ashton_speech_transcript_after_Israeli_anger?post_id=517779911#517779911more about the Ashton affairA letter to Catherine Ashton. . .The death of any and every child is a tragedy. Nevertheless, you have clustered together the victims of the Belgian bus accident, government massacres in Syria, indiscriminate murder in NorWed, 21 Mar 2012 15:52:45 -0500