Enabling a genocide is no obstacle to political longevity.
That is what Ursula von der Leyen will prove this week if she wins a vote allowing her to be reappointed head of the European Commission.
In October, von der Leyen offered her full backing to Israel at a time when it was killing a child in Gaza approximately every 15 minutes.
Those lawmakers who will endorse von der Leyen this coming Thursday will be dismissing that fact as insignificant.
Complicity in genocide is a crime. Yet international law is being tossed aside in the grubby horse trading through which the European Union’s top jobs are filled.
Von der Leyen has a record of pandering to extremists. …more
