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18.04.02, 23:29
Los Angeles, Alta California - 4/4/2002 - (ACN) 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.
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