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On Monday morning, a gunman opened fire in Toulouse as children were arriving at a Jewish school for the start of classes. Two boys and a girl (all under eight) and a teacher died. Baroness Ashton, the Browno-Blairite hack who serves as “Europe”’s “High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,” was sympathetic but decided to place the event within the broader picture:

At an event in Brussels on Monday organized for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, Ms. Ashton paid tribute to children around the world, including the fatal coach crash in Switzerland which killed more than 20 Belgian children, the Syrian conflict, the Toulouse shooting and “what’s happened in Gaza.”

Lady Ashton now says her remarks were “taken out of context.” The context that matters is that Jewish life in Europe now takes place only behind increasingly heavy security — at synagogues, at schools, at community centers. That leaves the journeys in between, which many Jews now make without identifying marks of their faith: in the streets, for example, the son of Amsterdam’s chief rabbi wears his yarmulke under a baseball cap. As I wrote here three years ago:

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The Germans have a similar problem in their current news.
Seems 20 Muslims attacked an ethnic German man.
With KNIVES.
He had a knife, too.
So, between getting his head bashed in and suffering multiple stab wounds he managed to knife one of his 20 attackers in the chest.
That man died.
Now the Muslims are vowing revenge against ANY & ALL ethnic Germans in their area.
The man is getting out of the hospital today and German police are going to protect him.
But that leaves everybody else vulnerable.
One quote by the Muslims at a gathering was very disturbing:
Burak K. “‘I can guarantee one hundred percent that this will have a sequel. This is a separate universe with its own laws.”
And all this is in a suburb of Berlin!