Eurabian reactions to the execution of Sheikh Yassin. (Hat tip: Colt.)

BRITAIN: Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary: “It is unacceptable. It is unjustified and it is very unlikely to achieve its objective. A measurable restraint is required and I don’t believe Israel will benefit from the fact that this morning an (elderly man) in a wheelchair has been the target of assassination”

FRANCE: Herve Ladsous, foreign ministry spokesman: “France condemns the action taken against Sheikh Yassin, just as it has always condemned the principle of any extra-judicial execution as contrary to international law. The attack bears a serious risk of increasing tensions in the whole of the region.”

FRANCE: Dominique de Villepin, Foreign Minister: “At a time when it is so important to mobilise ourselves to advance the peace process, such acts can only feed the spiral of violence”

RUSSIA: Alexander Yakovenko, Foreign Ministry spokesman: “Moscow is deeply concerned about the situation. It threatens a new wave of violence which could sabotage efforts to restart negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis by the ‘quartet’ of international mediators and key regional powers.”

GERMANY: Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister: “The situation is that everything must be done so that further escalation can be avoided. The government is deeply concerned about this development.”

EU: Javier Solana, Foreign policy chief: “This type of action does not contribute at all to create the conditions of peace. This is very, very bad news for the peace process. The policy of the European Union has been consistently�condemnation of extra-judicial killing”

Does anyone believe these people are really mourning the death of this filthy monster? No; I think the real reason for these statements is pure and simple fear.

And I certainly don’t recall anything close to a similar level of outrage and condemnation the last time Hamas blew up a bus full of Israeli schoolchildren, or bombed an ice cream parlor full of kids and their parents, or committed mass murder at a Passover dinner.

But then, to the Eurabians, those things don’t count as “extra-judicial killings.”

I see reactions like this and it’s very hard to avoid coming to the conclusion that there is something deeply, deeply wrong in the soul of Europe.