The idea that what happens in Gaza constitutes a genocide gains weight in different European countries, with special force in Spain. A good number of countries support the creation of a Palestinian State or are about to do so in the face of the next United Nations meeting. Even within Israel there are more and more voices that coincide – the writer David Grossman very recently – in warming of genocide the war climbing by Israel, and a myriad of academics in Europe and the United States. But . The EU has not broken commercial relations, the partners have continued to sell weapons, and its leaders have turned on the conflict or have aligned with meridian clarity on the side of the Israelis. In this context of warmth, Josep Borrell claims to move from the muses to the theater. “There is a clear will for extermination of the Palestinian people. Does human rights breach Israel? If so, and everything suggests that, the next step is to take European institutions to the courts to enforce the treaties,” said Borrell in the closing of a course on Europe at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, in Santander. “That could be done by any Member State, and there are a few, like Spain, that have been very, very explicit. It is time for Europe to act, the treaties clearly say what happens if humanitarian law is breached. That is not optional,” explained the one that until a few months ago was the head of European diplomacy.
Everything requires philosophy, says a character of Così Fan Tutte, Mozart’s opera. Borrell’s philosophy was and continues to chain direct punching to the chin: the former minister, former president of the Eurocamara and former EU representative was an articulated and language type when he exercised power, and remains out of those cenacles. “Europe needs a moral revulsion. Europeans have a vision of ourselves that does not correspond to reality: our alleged moral superiority has vanished in Gaza. Values have disappeared. Europe has lost their soul,” he said, to subsequently point to the culprits. “There is a generation of Germans who were born in the postwar period and are still in power, and that are not able to change. They are a proatlantist generation and marked by the fault of the Holocaust, and who are convinced that doing the right thing to protect Israel,” he said, he said without citing the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “That social engineering that is the guilt complex of Germany, which extends to other countries such as Austria and Slovakia, has everything blocked; there is a handful of Member States that are unconditional of Israel,” he said. To change those dynamics, former Foreign Minister of Pedro Sánchez invites the twenty -seven to use the letter of the courts of justice.
Memory as a moral obstacle: that way of looking towards the past prevents governing with the present. This block explains European paralysis in Israel for the influence of Germany, and also insufficient help to Ukraine. “In the case of Ukraine, the fault and more fear of the nuclear threat is less, which has delayed military aid to Ukraine. If tanks, airplanes and missiles would not have reached kyiv on droppers, the development of the war would have been very different. But in the case of Ukraine it is not just a problem of elites. We have to ask what we are willing to do. kyiv, or just help not losing war to avoid Russian reprisals?
