Greek police may not have a lead, but hours after the attack the Foreign Ministry says it’s the result of Palestinian incitement.
HAARETZ
Greek police may not have a lead on who carried out the shooting at the Israeli embassy in Athens early Friday, but hours after the attack the Foreign Ministry is already blaming the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas.
“The attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens is another link in a chain of violent actions that has resulted from anti-Israeli incitement disseminated around the world by leaders of the Palestinian Authority and pro-Palestinian organizations,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon, in a statement issued under direction from Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
“The international community must condemn this ongoing incitement, which yields such results,” Nachshon continued. “Israel thanks Greek authorities for the close collaboration in investigating the incident, and we hope the perpetrators will be apprehended and punished.”
Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Athens with an AK-47 assault rifle in the early hours of Friday, Greek police said, but no injuries or damage were reported.
Four people on two motorcycles fired shots at the embassy building in a northern suburb of Athens, a police official said.
Officials in Athens condemned the shooting, stressing it would not affect the country’s close ties with Israel.
“The Greek government is fully determined to ensure the protection of all diplomatic missions in Greece,” a Foreign Ministry statement said. “Of course, particularly strong security and protection measures are in force at the Israeli embassy.”
Police have cordoned off the area around the embassy and forensics experts in white protective clothing were searching the area. Police recovered 54 spent bullet casings.
The embassy has not been a target in other acts of low-level violence in Greece in recent years as an economic crisis raises social and political tensions.
Fantastic. This should happen to israeli embassies the world over.
“Four assailants arrived on motorcycles around 3 a.m. and two raked the Israeli embassy building with Kalashnikov fire. The shots were fired from two Kalashnikov rifles used in a similar attack in December 2013 on the German ambassador’s home, also in northern Athens. Responsibility for that attack was claimed by an organization called the Group of Popular Rebels, which also said it had carried out a shooting at the offices of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s New Democracy party in January 2013.” ~ New York Times
So let’s see. Some shots were fired at the Israeli embassy. Other shots were fired at a German ambassador’s home. Other shots were fired at the office of a political party. The “Group of Popular Rebels” claims responsibility.
Therefore, “Palestinians” did it!
Even better, Jews say it was their collaborator puppets, Fatah, that did it. Amazing!
(I expect the Israeli media to change this so it reads that “Hamas did it.” Or maybe Hezbollah.)
Funny, but they were heard to be speaking to each other in perfect Hebrew. The only Palestinians who said “Oy vey” as they roared off.
Fantastic. !!!!!!
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It was supposed to say “little black monkey.”
*In Gods eyes Israel is still none Existing. Exiled for good reason–Nothing in the Scriptures has changed his mind.
Again — ALL4ISRAEL.com. ONLY JEWS HAVE RIGHTS IN AMERICA— DEFINED BY THEM !! — THAT IS KOSHER ?? *
*Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is the latest step in the broader campaign to stifle and suppress dissent on California’s increasingly volatile campuses. *
*The California State Assembly is the lower house of the state legislature, consisting of 80 members. The resolution—H.R. 35: “Relative to anti-Semitism”—was passed by a vote of 66 to 80, including a majority of both Republicans and Democrats in the Assembly. *
*The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public discussion. The vote on the resolution came when most students were between semesters and away from their campuses. *
*The resolution (available here) uses the classic trick employed by defenders of Israel’s Zionist regime: lumping together any criticism of the Israeli state’s policies or of the US government’s support for them with racist attacks on Jews. *
*On the one hand, the resolution denounces “swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti in residential halls, public areas on campus, and Hillel houses,” and denounces those who accuse “the Jewish people, or Israel, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.” *
*On the other hand, the bulk of the resolution is dedicated to defining criticism of the state of Israel as “anti-Semitism.” It lists the following as examples of “anti-Semitism”: *
*• “language or behavior [that] demonizes and delegitimizes Israel;” *
*• “speakers, films, and exhibits” that indicate that “Israel is guilty of heinous crimes against humanity such as ethnic cleansing and genocide;” *
*• describing Israel as a “racist” or “apartheid” state; *
*• “student-and faculty-sponsored boycott, divestment, and sanction campaigns against Israel;” *
*• “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination;” *
*• “applying double standards by requiring of Israel a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation;” and *
*• “actions of student groups that encourage support for terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah.” *
*This list makes clear that the accusations of anti-Semitism are a red herring, employed to attack students’ democratic rights and stifle dissent. The resolution recalls the smear campaign against German author Günter Grass and his poem “What Must Be Said” earlier this year. *
*Defending the poem, the World Socialist Web Site explained: “Anti-Semitism is the term used to describe racist hatred aimed at the oppression and persecution of Jews—and in the case of the Third Reich, the extermination of Jews. Grass’s criticisms of the war policy of the Netanyahu government are not directed against Jews, nor against Jews in Israel. His overwhelming concern is the well-being of both the Jewish population in Israel and the Iranian people. This is in stark contrast to the Israeli government. *
*“The Israeli regime does not represent the interests of the Jewish population, but rather a tiny rich and corrupt clique that has always worked closely with American imperialism.” (See Defend Günter Grass!) *
*The aggressive narrowness of the resolution’s definition of acceptable political discussion, combined with its broad definition of anti-Semitism, prompted the University of California to distance itself from the resolution, though without rejecting or denouncing it. “We think it’s problematic because of First Amendment concerns,” UC spokesman Steve Montiel told the San Francisco Chronicle last week. *
*The resolution does clearly implicate the First Amendment, which protects not only criticism of the state of Israel, but generally protects anti-Semitic hate speech as well. *
*Moreover, it must also be said that the State of Israel is, as a matter of fact, guilty of crimes against humanity. *
*To cite only a more recent example, the 574-page UN Goldstone Report published in 2010 found that the State of Israel had deliberately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza during the 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead.” The invasion of Gaza saw 1,400 Palestinians killed compared with 13 Israelis killed. More than 21,000 buildings, factories, and apartments were damaged or destroyed. *
*Under California H.R. 35, it appears that the Goldstone report is now to be considered “anti-Semitic.” *
*The resolution also contains a denunciation of “suppression and disruption of free speech that presents Israel’s point of view.” This appears to be a reference to the “Irvine 11” incident last year, in which 11 students shouted down Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during his speech at the University of California at Irvine. *
*The 11 students shouted, “Michael Oren, you’re a war criminal,” and “You, sir, are an accomplice to genocide.” These students were later arrested, charged, and convicted of the crimes of “conspiracy” and violating Oren’s rights. (See University of California students convicted for protesting Israeli ambassador’s speech.) *
*The resolution goes on to state that the “Assembly recognizes recent actions by officials of public post secondary educational institutions in California [e.g., the prosecutions of the Irvine 11] and calls upon those institutions to increase their efforts to swiftly and unequivocally condemn acts of anti-Semitism on their campuses and to utilize existing resources . . . to help guide campus discussion about, and promote, as appropriate, educational programs for combating anti-Semitism on their campuses.” *
*On California’s campuses, as on campuses and workplaces internationally, explosive class antagonisms are increasingly apparent. Massive tuition hikes year after year coupled with job losses and skyrocketing youth unemployment present an entire generation of young people with an increasingly impossible situation. *
*State authorities in California, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, have watched the large campus protests that took place across state campuses over the past two years with hostility, consternation, and fear. *
*Over the past year, at the behest of Democratic Party officials, demonstrating students across the state have been attacked by paramilitary police squads armed with batons, tear gas, and flash grenades, with hundreds of students arrested and jailed. The world’s attention was captured when students peacefully protesting tuition hikes at UC Davis were pepper sprayed by police in cold blood. *
*In the face of increasing tensions and protests, state authorities are moving to clamp down on the campuses, intervening to “guide campus discussion” and criminalize criticism of both domestic and foreign policy. Under the guise of criticizing “anti-Semitism” the state government signaling that the persecution of student protesters will be tolerated or welcomed. *
*The resolution concludes that “strong leadership from the top remains an important priority so that no administrator, faculty, or student group can be in any doubt that anti-Semitic activity will not be tolerated in the classroom or on campus, and that no public resources will be allowed to be used for anti-Semitic or any intolerant agitation.*