Unbelievable EU spokesperson quote of the month

Words nearly fail me at this quote by a spokeswoman from the EU on the rocket that landed in Ashkelon:

Meanwhile, a Gaza-fired rocket on Tuesday night hit an empty school in the Israeli town of Ashkelon, within earshot of 80 EU border monitors housed nearby.

“We heard it. But we don’t have the feeling that we are at risk,” an EU border mission spokeswoman told EUobserver from Ashkelon. “The strange thing is people here are so used to this, life just goes on as normal.”

Yes, I said “words nearly fail me.” Let’s think: Smugness. A sense of entitlement. A sense of: “Gee, it didn’t hurt us, so we don’t care that a rocket landed in the sovereign nation of Israel, fired by a group of terrorists from the formerly occupied Gaza Strip, which was evacuated, just as the world asked, so that the palestinians could get started on a state of their own.”

Those would be words I could use.

This quote, by the way, is in an article that profiles the many ways Israel is breaking international law (according to the EU, that is) by, um, let’s see—oh, let’s quote them again.

“The Israeli military must stop collectively punishing Palestinians and putting civilian lives at risk. And I must say, it does raise questions of international law,” external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told MEPs in Strasbourg.

“Israel has to understand its responsibility for the well-being of the Palestinian people,” she added. “Those detained [by Israel] must be accorded their full legal rights.”

Funny, I’m not hearing anyone tell the kidnappers of Cpl. Shalit that they have to accord him his full legal rights. I’m not hearing anyone tell Hamas that they are collectively punishing the residents of Sderot (and now Ashkelon) for the policies of the Israeli government.

What time is it, folks? That’s right! It’s Israel Double Standard Time.