“No Gazan child is saved when a Belgian politician returns faster from vacation, but leaves that holiday snapshot out”

While his coalition partners Vooruit, CD&V and Les Engagés with urge to quickly call together a Council of Ministers about Gaza, Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) remains silent. Except on social media, where he pleasantly shares his South African adventures. “The fact that politicians go on holiday does not detract from the fact that they sympathize with injustice elsewhere in the world,” writes political journalist Fleur Mees. “But a sunny, witty snapshot next to ‘a Flemish lion’? Leave it out this summer.”

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