The Czech prime minister blamed anti-Semitism for pervasive hostility to Israel in Europe.
“It is a shame for the old continent that so many of its inhabitants are thinking this way, 60 years after their ancestors allowed the Holocaust,” Mirek Topolanek said at a parliamentary Holocaust commemoration ceremony Friday. He accused Europeans of pandering to Arabs and Muslims. “We try to honor foreign cultures that often are hostile toward us, regardless of the aid we offer to them,” he said. “And we don’t have enough room in our hearts for our brothers whose terrible suffering we allowed.”
Source: www. jta.org
Date: 25.1.2007
