After over 21 months of live-streamed killings in Gaza that leading experts have unanimously called a genocide , even European politicians had begun to feebly question Israel’s inhumane offensive. However, Israel’s “pre-emptive” strikes on Iran last month, which led to a 12-day war, tautly pulled European politicians back into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s embrace. Rehearsed statements about European values and Israel’s “right to exist” were pronounced immediately, delivered with the smug and bureaucratic indifference perhaps most easily identified with the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen. To these proceedings, the German Chancellor, Frederic Merz, added some blunt intensity when...