On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Benjamin Netanyahu decided to attack Europe for "deep moral weakness" - that's how the Israeli prime minister describes the old continent, adding that Israel and the US are fighting for "a world that has largely abandoned" them. A heavy statement from a man whose army has been under international criticism for months.

The ceremonies were scaled down in advance due to security tensions - which speaks volumes on its own about the state Izrael finds itself in. President Herzog called for national unity, but unity around what? Around a policy that is isolating Israel from most of the world?

The hardest story from this day is the one about Magda Barac - a Holocaust survivor whose grandson is dying in Gaza. One woman, one family, two genocidal horrors separated by sixty years. That is a story before which every political rhetoric should fall silent. But it won't, because politics never stays quiet when it can profit from tragedy.

A two-minute siren echoed through all of Israel. Fifty survivors marched at Auschwitz. And Netanyahu, instead of reflection, chose confrontation. In the Balkans we know that pattern - using historical pain as a shield for today's decisions. It's always useful to point fingers at others while not looking in the mirror.