On Feb. 12, I looked at the bearded face of the European Parliament's president, Martin Schulz, as right-wing Knesset members, led by ministers of the HaBayit HaYehudi Party, competed with each other in hurling insults at the German guest. I wondered what was going through the mind of the man, who heads the biggest multinational parliament in the world — the second in the world (after India) in terms of the size of the population it represents — upon hearing a Jewish member of Knesset accuse him of supporting “those who incite toward the destruction of Jews.”
What does the senior politician think of Jewish representatives who refuse to recognize the suffering of another people? What does the representative of the German Social Democrats (SPD), who may be elected this year as president of the European Commission — the executive arm of the European Union that initiates most of its laws — think about the extent of the rationality of some Israeli decision-makers?
