(Jewish) President of European Union: my first obligation is to defend the Jewish people and the state of Israel

A full week of meetings commemorating the Wannsee Conference in Berlin and the victims of the Holocaust came to a climax in Brussels on Tuesday night, when the newly-elected President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, gave an official speech. In his speech, one of the first as a newly-elected president, he stated that ”his first obligation as President of the European Parliament is to defend the Jewish people and the State of Israel.” The statement came in his opening address at the 8th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European Parliament, co-organized by the European Coalition for Israel.Source: http://www.whyisrael.org/2012/01/27/new-president-of-the-european-parliament-%E2%80%9D-first-responsibility-is-to-defend-the-jewish-people-%E2%80%9D/