Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken out about the Brussels shooting at a Jewish museum blaming it on the constant incitement against Jews and Israel in Europe.
http://news.yahoo.com/brussels-killings-due-incitement-against-jews-netanyahu-220653065.html
Netanyahu. of course, is correct. We have been documenting that hate and incitement going on in Europe for years.
Late reports indicate that one suspect is being questioned by police and that they are looking for a second person. The death count is three with one person in critical condition.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-25/three-dead-in-shooting-at-jewish-museum-in-belgium/5476076
Jewish Press is reporting that the fourth person has died.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/at-least-3-killed-in-brussels-jewish-museum-shooting/2014/05/24/
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Netanyahu is indulging in petty political opportunism.
There will always be fanatics who pop up and try to kill innocent people.
His speech could have been written by Joseph Goebbels about the assassination of a German diplomat in pre-war Paris.
Yes, its the atmosphere, not the criminal.
Those responsible for these killings are no more and no less culpable than the idiots who killed an eleven year old girl on a school playground in Milwaukee, and no more representative of any demographic.
Siarlys,
Are you aware of why Herschel Grynzspsn killed Ernst vom Rath in Paris? He was outraged because his family had been deported from Germany to a no-man's area across the border into Poland. Sorry, the Milwaukee killing escapes my memory.
Yes, Gary, I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that the German government used the act of one outraged individual to blame every Jew in Germany for the act. I think that may have been the occasion for krystallnacht, but there were many occasions for many atrocities.
Also, I'm aware that from the German point of view, the act of expulsion was a righteous one, and the killing of the diplomat a gratuitous act of terrorism. I don't agree, but I'm neither German, Nazi, nor Jewish.
And, turning to the Holy Land, I'm neither Jewish nor Arab, but I do recognize that what we have in the middle east is a case of two rights make a wrong. Palestinian families have been gratuitously uprooted from their homes, to make way for settlements built by Jews whose political ideology I despise almost as much as al Qaeda (almost, because they don't have the capacity to wreak their acts of more petty terror in my neighborhood).
So when Jews target Palestinians, because some Palestinians are terrorists, and Palestinians target Jews, because some Jews are terrorists, I find it difficult to salute the latest line of propaganda.
Generally, the victims are everyone but those responsible for the acts of violence that may, or may not, in themselves have been crimes. Netanyahu is not sufficiently innocent for his words to be anything but sanctimonious horse manure.
Siarlys,
Given the rampant anti-Semitism in Europe today, it is pretty hard to deny that it had nothing to do with what happened in Brussels. Yet, you call it horse manure.
Straw man squared. I did not say the possibility that anti-Semitism contributed to the killing of Jewish people at a Jewish cite is horse manure. I said given his political position and history, Netanyahu's loaded words and political opportunism are sanctimonious horse manure.
You don't know the difference?
I do have some doubts about the case for "rampant anti-Semitism in Europe today." There certain ARE anti-Semitic incidents, and a complacent European population that has been used to civil peace for so long they are rather rusty at responding to targeted disorder. But these incidents are neither so rampantly tolerated as you and the sites you link to would have as assume, nor are they being committed with the substantial public support as, e.g., the prosecution of Dreyfuss.
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