February 2017 AD
Israel's
"Feel Our Pain"
Campaign
Israel's European Diaspora "Feel our Pain" campaign of flooding Europe with Muslims is finally paying off.
Europeans are reeling from multiple terrorist attacks on their own soil
from Muslim outsiders, whom Jews convinced them to allow entry, but are
instead mourning a terrorist attack outside of Europe -- which took
place in Israel.
I would say Israel has once again succeeded in its propaganda wars.
Europeans are pitying the ones who brought them their own misery. Excellent propaganda play Mossad!
Unusually, following Sunday’s attack the Israeli flag was projected
on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and Paris City Hall, signs of
solidarity with the Jewish state permitted by local authorities.
Rotterdam City Hall flew the Israeli flag at half-mast.
To Eran
and other observers of Israeli-EU relations, this change in tune is
indicative of greater understanding and empathy in Europe to Israel’s
fight against terrorism following a a wave of terrorist attacks on the
continent beginning in 2012.
“I think it’s a new development that
sincerely stems from the change in the mind of many people in Europe,
in government and beyond, who now understand better than a few years ago
the impact and influence of terrorism on the daily lives of innocent
victims,” Eran told JTA on Wednesday.
He was referring to the
cumulative effect of at least a dozen major attacks on Western European
soil since 2012 in which local or foreign jihadists killed hundreds of
victims using methods long associated with Palestinian terrorists.
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Is terrorism softening European attitudes toward Israel?
When a
Palestinian terrorist used a car to ram and kill an Israeli soldier in
eastern Jerusalem in 2014, the European Union urged “restraint” and,
without condemning the attack, called it merely “further painful
evidence of the need to undertake serious efforts towards a sustainable
peace agreement.”
The statement by EU foreign relations chief
Federica Mogherini was “a typical EU reaction, which blames the victim
for getting attacked,” Oded Eran, a former ambassador of Israel to the
European Union and a senior research fellow at the Institute for
National Security Studies, said at the time.
Two years later,
however, European officials had a much different reaction to a similar
attack in eastern Jerusalem, which killed four Israeli soldiers on
Sunday.
“The European Union condemns the murder of these four
young Israelis, as well as any praise or incitement for terrorist acts,”
Brussels said in a statement, which unlike the 2014 communique omitted
any reference to the fact that the attack happened in an area of
Jerusalem that it considers occupied.
Unusually, following Sunday’s attack the Israeli flag was projected
on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and Paris City Hall, signs of
solidarity with the Jewish state permitted by local authorities.
Rotterdam City Hall flew the Israeli flag at half-mast.
To Eran
and other observers of Israeli-EU relations, this change in tune is
indicative of greater understanding and empathy in Europe to Israel’s
fight against terrorism following a a wave of terrorist attacks on the
continent beginning in 2012.
“I think it’s a new development that
sincerely stems from the change in the mind of many people in Europe,
in government and beyond, who now understand better than a few years ago
the impact and influence of terrorism on the daily lives of innocent
victims,” Eran told JTA on Wednesday.
He was referring to the
cumulative effect of at least a dozen major attacks on Western European
soil since 2012 in which local or foreign jihadists killed hundreds of
victims using methods long associated with Palestinian terrorists.
Last
month, a terrorist whom the Islamic State terrorist group described as
its “soldier” killed 11 people, including one Israeli tourist, at a
Berlin Christmas market by plowing a stolen truck through the crowd. In
July, a similar attack claimed over 80 lives in Nice, France. Days
later, an Afghan man injured four people with an axe on a train in
southern Germany.
These events happened just months after the
murder of over 30 people in a series of explosions in Brussels in March,
and fresh on the heels of a horrific series of bombings and shootings
that left 130 people dead in Paris in November 2015.
The Israeli
government, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular, have
been persistently drawing an equivalence between the attacks in Europe
and attacks against Israelis by Palestinians.
“The terrorists who
attack us have the same murderous intent as those in Paris,” Netanyahu
said about the November 2015 Paris attacks. “It is time for states to
condemn terrorism against us like they condemn terrorism anywhere else
in the world.”
Some European leaders clearly see his point.
Following
the Berlin attack, German President Joachim Gauck said as much in a
reply he sent to a condolence message from Gauck’s Israeli counterpart,
Reuven Rivlin.
“You and your country are in a position to
understand fully what being threatened by terrorism means for a people
and a nation because in your country it has become almost a daily
phenomenon. We know that you can feel with us and commiserate,” Gauck
said.
Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Avraham Nir-Feldklein,
further drove home the message in a statement following the projection
of the Israeli flag on the Brandenburg Gate, a gesture initiated by
pro-Israel activists.
“We all find ourselves facing the same
terror, from Nice through Berlin to Jerusalem, but together we will
stand against evil, and we will prevail,” he wrote.
On Twitter,
the German Foreign Ministry shared a picture of the projection, stating
it was “in solidarity with Israel.” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, by
contrast, described the gesture in her city merely as a “tribute to the
victims of the attack” in Jerusalem.
Muna Duzdar, an Austrian
state secretary, insisted in an interview Wednesday with JTA that
“Europe always understood that Israel has a right to defend itself and
have security,” and that greater empathy in Europe for terror victims
extends not just to Israel but to victims around the world.
But
following the attacks in Europe, “now we’re having the situation that we
have daily terrorist attacks. I wake up and there’s an attack in
Israel, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Germany. No country is left
unaffected. And it might be that someone who was affected himself has a
better understanding of this.”
Duzdar, who was born in Austria to
Palestinian parents and heads the Palestinian Austrian Society,
rejected during the interview claims that the attack was not a terrorist
incident because it was directed against soldiers on land that
Palestinians consider occupied.
“This attack targeted human
beings, and as far as I understand it was a jihadist who did that, whose
intention was to attack people,” she said.
In Belgium, the
firebrand anti-Israel columnist Dyab Abou Jahjah, who for years
justified violence against Israelis and Americans in the pages of the De Standaard daily, was fired Monday for defending Sunday’s Jerusalem attack on social media.
“An
attack on occupation soldiers in occupied territory is not terrorism!
It is an act of Resistance. #FreePalestine,” Abou Jahjah wrote.
In a statement, De Standaard
editor-in-chief Karel Verhoeven wrote that Abou Jahjah “has placed
himself beyond the borders of acceptable debate” by endorsing violence.
Yet the gestures of empathy toward Israel will not likely carry over to EU policy, according to Eran, the former ambassador.
“These
gestures are heartwarming and indicative of a positive change, but
there is a clear distinction between empathy and policy in the corridors
of the European Union, which is likely to remain as critical as ever of
Israeli settlements and continue to oppose them on every international
arena,” he said.
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