Baroness Cathy Ashton Compares Toulouse to Gaza

Hat tip Stand With Us

 

Baroness Cathy Ashton with Dutchess Hillary Clinton




"Baroness" Cathy Ashton is a British official in the EU, who was appointed in spite of her lack of credentials, which doesn't exactly make her out of place now, does it? She is a favorite target of fellow EU member (and EU critic) Nigel Farage when he is not throwing zingers at EU President Herman van Rompuy. 

In the wake of the atrocity in Toulouse, Ashton has compared it to Gaza while speaking to a group of Palestinians in Brussels.  She now says she was misquoted, taken out of context, or some such rot.

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=262550

Stand With Us has called on "Lady" Ashton to apologize or resign so she can return to her duties as baroness, for which she is more suited.

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STANDWITHUS FRANCE CALLS FOR AN APOLOGY OR RESIGNATION FROM CATHERINE ASHTON ON HER COMMENTS REGARDING THE MURDERS AT THE JEWISH SCHOOL:

(Paris, France -- March 19, 2012) -- StandWithUs France condemns High Representative of the European Union, Catherine Ashton for her statement regarding the brutal, anti-Semitic murders of four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse today.

As France reels in horror at this attack, together with the global Jewish community and all people of conscience, High Representative Ashton, the EU’s top diplomat, chose to compare the situation of those murdered today to Palestinians in Hamas-run Gaza, from a meeting with Palestinian youth she attended in Brussels.

“This was an insensitive comment which was pandering to the Palestinian group Ashton was with, and it is incredibly hurtful to the victims and to the French Jewish community”, said Laurent Preece, Director of StandWithUs France, who heard her comments while participating at a 50,000 strong silent rally in Paris in memory of the victims. “Her record regarding diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab conflict has been checkered at best, but these comments are beyond the pale. She should apologize immediately or resign her position.”

StandWithUs CEO, Roz Rothstein commented: “The attack that took place in Toulouse is in no way similar to the situation in Gaza. Since Israel pulled out of Gaza, Palestinian terror groups have fired tens of thousands of rockets on Israeli cities indiscriminately killing and maiming children and adults.”

Adds Preece, "In recent weeks, Israeli schoolchildren have been cowering from attacks by Palestinian missiles fired deliberately at them from Gaza, so it is incredible that Catherine Ashton chose to compare the anti-Semitic murder of a Rabbi, his two young children and another child to children in Gaza. In Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups use Palestinian children as human shields while firing with impunity at Israeli children."

StandWithUs France will be taking part in a memorial rally in Paris, led by the CRIF on Sunday.

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I echo Stand With Us' statement. There is no comparison between Toulouse and Gaza. To mention them is the same breath is an outrage.