Brussels, October 28 – Technical difficulties may prove a challenge, but the governing arm of the European Union is looking into methods for delivering aid to the avalanche in Nepal that killed several Israelis two weeks ago. The move would continue the European Commission’s efforts to finance entities that kill, maim, or threaten Jews, especially Israeli Jews, after pledging $568 million to help Hamas rebuild its military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
Three Israelis were among the seventeen killed in a Nepal avalanche on October 16. The total number of victims does not match the 72 dead from this summer’s barrage of Hamas missiles, mortars, and terrorist infiltrations, but Commission leaders expressed hope that the cataclysm of snow, ice, and rock will use the funds to improve its methods and effectiveness.
“The Palestinian Arabs have had more than a hundred years’ experience killing Jews,” said Catherine Ashton, the outgoing head of EU foreign affairs. “That’s the longest-running currently active Jew-killing initiative in the world. While we can’t expect relative neophytes in the field to attain the same level of achievement that the Palestinians have done, we can certainly offer the necessary support and encouragement to others in pursuit of the same goal.”
“By 2050, avalanches might be killing dozens of Israelis at a time,” offered Ashton.
Asia in general has been a relative underachiever in Jew-killing. Whereas Europe has devoted the better part of the last two thousand years alternately tolerating and massacring Jews, Asian nations have concentrated primarily on oppressing or exterminating their own local ethnicities. East Asian countries in particular have a less than exemplary record of achievement in Jew-killing, with WWII Japan, an ally of Hitler, allowing thousands of Lithuanian Jews to find refuge in Kobe, and then in Shanghai, China, which they controlled. At the time, Japan’s efforts at oppression, persecution, and extermination focused mainly on the Chinese and Koreans.
Even the natural disasters in Asia have garnered a paucity of dead Jews. Over many years the typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear leaks, and other catastrophic events in the western Pacific and East Asia have accounted for barely a handful of Jewish casualties, and the European Commission aims to help those areas gain proficiency in the one arena that Europe can claim thousands of years of experience and expertise.
“The Black Death of the fourteenth century wiped out Jews along with everybody else in horrific proportions,” notes historian Nick Plaig-Bubon. “Blaming the Jews for causing it, and killing even more of them in the process, was just the icing on the cake. The point is that Europe by that point had so internalized the value of killing Jews that Mother Nature herself got in on the act. The challenge for Asian countries is the relatively low number of Jews in that part of the world, so the focus of this new initiative has to be identifying opportunities and seizing them in a timely and destructive fashion.”
The avalanche exhibited both characteristics, and that is what caught the Commission’s attention, says EU Undersecretary for Asia Anne T. Semitt. “The obvious initial locales for projects of this nature we can sponsor are Thailand, Nepal, and India, where thousands of Israelis go every year. A single well-timed and well-placed outbreak of, say, a new and lethal strain of avian flu can do wonders to firmly establish Asia’s place on the Jew-killing map.”
Palestinian leaders expressed mixed feelings over the initiative, as investment in South and East Asia necessarily means less money available for them to embezzle.
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