Catherine Ashton
How Israel Sold EU on Banning Half of Hezbollah
Who got the European Union to take the strange step of banning half of Hezbollah (its military wing) but not the rest? Amazingly enough, it was Israel.
What Ashton Really Said: Watch the Video
The foreign policy chief of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, is under furious attack for a speech she gave March 19, several hours after the deadly shootings at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, in which she mentioned the Toulouse attack and deaths of Palestinian youths in Gaza in the same sentence.
Ashton's False Equivalency That Wasn't
In lumping together those murdered in Toulouse with Gaza War victims, Catherine Ashton was asking for empathy from her Palestinian listeners, J.J. Goldberg writes.