Obama refused to rule out an international inquest into the flotilla incident. So the EU, of course, can’t be any more supportive of Israel than Obama, and indeed announces that it shares Hamas’s position: lift the Gaza Blockade. This report explains:

The European Union on Monday called for “credible international participation” in an investigation of the Israel Navy’s deadly raid of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla earlier this month, and urged Israel to lift its blockade on the coastal territory.The EU added that it regretted the loss of nine Turkish lives aboard the aid convoy on May 31 and condemned the use of violence during the clashes.

“The Council believes that an immediate, full and impartial inquiry into these events and the circumstances surrounding them is essential,” the European Foreign Affairs council said in a statement, hours after Israel revealed the members of its panel charged with probing the affair. “To command the confidence of the international community this should include credible international participation.”

In its statement, the EU issued its expected call on Israel to lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, declaring: “The situation in Gaza remains unsustainable. The continued policy of closure is unacceptable and politically counterproductive. The EU calls for an urgent and fundamental change of policy leading to a durable solution to the situation in Gaza.”

Obama likes to mollify all sides — the international community, Israel, the EU, and American Jews. His equivocation only winds up annoying everyone, and — of course — leaving the Jewish state exposed to the whims of those who pine for its enfeeblement or destruction.