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Europe's failure
No one is more passionate about the future of the EU than Timothy Garton Ash, which is why he is so incensed at the response to the violence in Gaza:
The Gaza war is a negation of every principle for which Europe claims to stand. It directly affects our vital interests, not least because the latest round of Palestinian suffering (compounded by the Palestinians' own divided and irresponsible leadership) will further inflame the anger of Muslims living in Europe...So how does Europe respond? Ludicrously, it has been represented in the Middle East by not one but two separate missions... At a moment when the United States is suspended between an outgoing president who won't do anything to stop the slaughter and an incoming president who feels he can't yet, Europe has a chance to show what it can do. So here it is: weak, divided, and still as infuriatingly pompous and vacuously self-aggrandising as it was in the early 1990s, when the foreign minister of Luxembourg descended on disintegrating Yugoslavia and cried "the hour of Europe has come".
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