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King_David

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Fri Jan 9, 2015, 10:23 PM Jan 2015

Israelis Link Attacks to Their Own Struggles

JERUSALEM — Like leaders around the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was quick to condemn the attack that killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday at the offices of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo. The next day, Mr. Netanyahu sent a letter of condolence and outrage to the French president and declared after a meeting with Norway’s foreign minister, “Israel is being attacked by the very same forces that attack Europe.”

On Friday, Mr. Netanyahu addressed the situation again, with a lengthy diatribe linking the Paris suspects to Israel’s enemies, and likening the massacre to rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. And this was all before a gunman laid siege to a kosher supermarket in Paris, which left four hostages and the hostage-taker dead and only brought things closer to home for Jews in Israel and beyond.

“They might have different names — ISIS, Boko Haram, Hamas, Al Shabab, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah — but all of them are driven by the same hatred and bloodthirsty fanaticism,” Mr. Netanyahu said before meeting with the French ambassador to Israel. “We understand we are in a common battle for our values and a common battle for our future.”

The attack on Wednesday came barely a week after France voted for a United Nations Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood, a mark of growing frustration in Europe over Israeli policies that have left the country increasingly isolated on the world stage. Though the resolution failed, the French vote was seen here as a betrayal, and Mr. Netanyahu said pointedly on Thursday, “Israel stands with Europe; Europe must stand with Israel.”

For many Israelis, any terrorism by Islamic extremists bolsters the argument that their conflict with the Palestinians is part of a larger clash of civilizations. But some questioned why the outpouring embodied by the worldwide “We are Charlie” campaign after the Charlie Hebdo massacre did not follow November’s deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, the abduction-murder of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, or the 2012 killing of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/world/europe/israelis-link-terrorism-in-france-to-their-own-struggles.html?_r=0

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Israelis Link Attacks to Their Own Struggles (Original Post) King_David Jan 2015 OP
With the terrorists claiming to be defenders of Palestine :I wonder how the vote would go now. King_David Jan 2015 #1
I think the link was actually made by the terrorist himself. King_David Jan 2015 #2

King_David

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1. With the terrorists claiming to be defenders of Palestine :I wonder how the vote would go now.
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 11:07 AM
Jan 2015
"The attack on Wednesday came barely a week after France voted for a United Nations Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood"


King_David

(14,851 posts)
2. I think the link was actually made by the terrorist himself.
Sat Jan 10, 2015, 01:56 PM
Jan 2015

He considered it an action to "defend Palestine"

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