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Global Rage against Jews Increasing over Zionist Rampage in Palestine |
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by Ernesto Cienfuegos
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07 Aug 2002
Modified: 08 Aug 2002 |
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The murderous rampage of the Zionist army in Palestine is generating very negative responses against all Jews around the world. Synagogues have been set ablaze in France, firebombs thrown at Jewish property in Belgium and Jews have been attacked on the streets of Buenos Aires, Berlin, London, and Mexico City. Many countries now fear that the raging violence in the Middle East is threatening their own peace and security. |
The United States has already paid dearly because of Israel when the the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked on September 11, 2001. Today, an increasing number of ongoing and planned demonstrations throughout the United States are seen as a tinderbox that can escalate into violence against American Jews as well.
In France, scene of the worst anti-Jew outbursts in Europe during the last week, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin deployed 1,100 national guard troops to provide some security around Jewish religious sites and prevent attacks by enraged citizens. President Jacques Chirac recently expressed concern about the increasing attacks on synagogues, cemeteries and kosher food shops throughout France. Just last night, attackers threw several firebombs at the Jewish religious centre in the southern city of Montpelliert, setting a nearby office ablaze and a bus was torched at a Jewish school in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers on Wednesday evening.
European leaders have been much more vocal than their U.S. allies in criticizing Sharon's attempts to isolate and exile Arafat. "It is clear that U.S. mediation efforts have failed and we need new mediation," European Commission President Romano Prodi told journalists. Switzerland warned that it was reconsidering economic and military cooperation with Israel in view of what it sees as the systematic violation of Palestinian human rights.
The Mideast flare-up is believed to be spurring attacks on Jewish targets in Europe, including an incident in the Belgian city of Antwerp on Wednesday in which unidentified attackers hurled two Molotov cocktails at a synagogue.
On Sunday night, two visiting U.S. Orthodox Jews were beaten on Berlin's fashionable Kurfuerstendamm shopping street. On Tuesday, vandals painted a swastika on a Jewish memorial in Berlin, and others managed to lob a firebomb into the Charlottenburg Jewish cemetery on Saturday despite a heavy police presence there and at all other Jewish religious sites in the city.
In Germany, a strong pro-Palestinian presence was clearly visible over the weekend when thousands who gathered for traditional Easter human rights demonstrations demanded that Israel withdraw from Ramallah and other Palestinian cities and condemned U.S. tolerance of Sharon's retaliatory offensive. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has warned fellow Europeans that unless the clashes are halted, the Mideast violence threatens "a destabilization of the entire region" and dangerous spillover into Europe's ethnically diverse and volatile cities.
"The aggravation of the crisis in the Middle East risks opening a wound that could infect the whole world," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said during a visit to Moscow on Wednesday. "All efforts must be made to open negotiations in which Europe and Russia could have a greater role and contribute to finding a peaceful solution. . . . There is the risk that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis could evolve into a conflict of all Islam against the West."
The risks of parallel conflicts on the continent were clear at Paris' Orly Airport on Tuesday when pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators brandished fists and hurled insults at each other while awaiting the return of French activists expelled from Israel for visiting Arafat at his besieged offices in Ramallah. Police had to be summoned to separate the protesters.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer warned that Arafat should be granted freedom of movement and allowed to meet with foreign mediators, and Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said Arafat is still key to finding a negotiated solution. French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine denounced Sharon's approach as an "obsessive focus on Arafat, as though he was the organizer of everything." Other political analysts and politicians warn that Israel is squandering its moral capital in its assault on Palestinian cities and towns.
"Many Jews living outside the Jewish state have begun to wonder if the price of combating these terrorists is worth paying," British lawmaker Gerald Kaufman, a Jewish member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party, noted in a recent commentary. "They are beginning to wonder whether the country they have toiled in and fought wars to defend . . . is so degrading itself as to be a very different land from the one they have loved."
More than 1,200 Palestinians and 400 Israelis have been killed since Palestinians began their revolt after Ariel Sharon incited it on September 2000 at the Temple Mount. The uprising has triggered a series of escalations ending in the current and most intensive Israeli military rampage in Palestinian territories. |
