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http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/06/europe/france.php
 Anti-Jewish violence in Europe
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
PARIS: Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to
spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults
against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France,
Sweden and Britain.
Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in
Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday night.
A Jewish congregation in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, also was
attacked Monday night by someone who "broke a window and threw in
something that was burning," said a police spokesman, Leif Nilsson.
Neighbors alerted rescue services before the fire took hold.
Someone also started a blaze outside the premises last week. And on
Sunday slogans including "murderers ... you broke the cease-fire" and
"don't subject Palestine to ethnic cleansing" were daubed on the
Israel Embassy in Stockholm.
In Denmark, a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents
is alleged to have wounded two young Israelis last week by opening
fire with a handgun in a shooting that the police suspect could be
linked to the Gaza crisis.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and
a history of anti-Semitic violence when tensions in the Middle East
are high. In 2002, about 2,300 Jews left France for Israel because
they felt unsafe.
President Nicolas Sarkozy warned in a statement Tuesday that France
would not tolerate violence linked to the Gaza crisis.
A day earlier, his interior minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said she
was concerned and met with the heads of the two main Muslim and Jewish
groups and police officials to stress the need to "preserve national
unity."
Damage to the synagogue in Toulouse was limited to a blackened gate,
and there were no injuries even though a rabbi had been giving a
course to adults inside, the authorities said. They added that
unlighted gasoline bombs had been found in a car nearby and in the
synagogue's yard. A local Jewish leader, Armand Partouche, said he
believed the assailants had planned to torch the synagogue but fled
when the building's alarm went off.
"It could have been very, very serious," Partouche said in a telephone
interview. "There were people inside; there could have been deaths."
He said Jewish leaders are asking Toulouse authorities for reinforced
security for the city's synagogues.
"We really fear that anti-Semitism will spring up again and that the
current conflict will be transposed to our beautiful French republic,"
he said.
In Britain, the Community Security Trust, a Jewish defense group, said
it had seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents since the start of
Israel's offensive against Gaza on Dec. 27. The group said it had
recorded 20 to 25 incidents across the country in the past week that
it believed were connected with Gaza, including an arson attempt on a
synagogue in north London on Sunday.
The London police are investigating the attack, in which suspects
splashed flammable liquid on the door and set it on fire.
A spokesman for Community Security Trust, Mark Gardner, said that in
another incident last week a gang of 15 to 20 youths walked along the
main street in Golders Green, a largely Jewish neighborhood in north
London, shouting "Jew" and "Free Palestine" at passers-by.
"It could get worse," Gardner said. "We tend to see these things
happen in waves."
The Belgian government ordered the police in Antwerp and Brussels on
Tuesday to be on increased alert after recent pro-Palestinian protests
ended in violence and dozens of arrests. The police said burning rags
were shoved through the mailbox of a Jewish home in Antwerp last
weekend. Damage was limited and no arrests were made.
In the Danish shooting, one Israeli man was shot in the arm and
another in the leg as they were selling hair care products in a
shopping mall. Eli Ruvio, who owns the company that operated the
stands, said his employees had been harassed by Muslim youths since
they set up three kiosks in the shopping center in August.
"They kept cursing and shouting at us," Ruvio said. He added that the
Muslim youths also threw mud and firecrackers at the employees and
spat at them.
Ruvio recalled an episode Dec. 27 when some of the youths shouted
"slaughter all the Jews."
"I told my employees not to speak in Hebrew and lie about where they
come from, they should say there were from Spain or somewhere else,"
he said. "If people ask you where you are from, never say you're from
Israel."
---
"mirare in una direzione" (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir,
febbraio 2008)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/certo-che-i-qassam-sono-pericolosi_05.html

Roger Cohen: The dominion of the dead
By Roger Cohen
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
NEW YORK: I had a dream: Israeli Arab students, enraged by the war in
Gaza, were protesting at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A
counter-demonstration by Jewish students erupted. When the head of
university security, a Holocaust survivor, tried to intervene, the Arab
students called him a Nazi.
Actually, I didn't dream this. Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at
the university, related the incident. But dreams cut to the quick.
There's no point denying that a line of sorts runs from the dozens
killed by Israeli fire near a United Nations school in Gaza back to the
Palestinian "Nakba" of 1948 and Berlin, 1945.
History is relentless. Sometimes its destructive gyre gets overcome:
France and Germany freed themselves after 1945 from war's cycle. So did
Poland and Germany. China and Japan scarcely love each other but do
business. Only in the Middle East do the dead rule.
Their demand for blood is, it seems, inexhaustible. Their graves will
not be quieted. Since 1948 and Israel's creation, retribution has
reigned between the Jewish and Palestinian national movements.
I have never previously felt so despondent about Israel, so shamed by
its actions, so despairing of any peace that might end the dominion of
the dead in favor of opportunity for the living.
More than dreams, I've been having nightmares. I cannot see a scenario
in which any short-term Israeli tactical victory over Hamas is not
overwhelmed by the long-term strategic cost of this war.
But before I get to that, let me return, for a moment, to those
protesting Israeli Arab students.
There are about 1.3 million Arab citizens of Israel, or a little less
than 20 percent of the population. Their loyalties are divided, but
never have they protested so vigorously. That's a fair guide to the
virulence of general Arab sentiment in the second week of the Gaza war.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, using the same loaded World War II
lexicon, has called Gaza "a concentration camp."
These jackboot allusions are odious: A Jewish minority in any Arab state
of the size of the Arab minority in Israel is unimaginable. Israel
remains a small island of relatively liberal democracy in a repressive
Arab sea. But it is ghettoizing itself.
The high-tech security fence built to wall off the West Bank and the
near-hermetic sealing of Gaza since withdrawal in 2005 are in the end
attempts to shut out reality. Palestinians have become a vague
abstraction to the vast bulk of Israelis not within the range of Hamas
rockets: out of sight, out of mind. Israel, shamefully, has even
prevented international journalists getting into Gaza to tell the story
as they see it.
In this context the hallucinogenic appeals of the government of
caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to ordinary Palestinians in Gaza,
asking them to realize Hamas is their common enemy, become more
understandable.
Mark Regev, Olmert's spokesman, has accused Hamas of "holding hostage"
these Palestinians. Under aerial and tank bombardment from an alien
power, with more than 500 dead and 2,500 wounded, that's not how most
people would view their democratically elected government.
Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, who cordially despises Olmert, has
meanwhile talked about changing "the equation" in Gaza. The only changed
equation I see over time is more entrenched hatred for Israel in Gaza:
Those 3,000 dead and wounded have relatives, some of whom may one day
strap on suicide belts.
As for Ehud Barak, the third of the sound-bite-mouthing Israeli troika
and leader of the Labor Party, his talk of deepening and broadening the
campaign in Gaza has not been unrelated to an attempt to deepen and
broaden his appeal among Israelis who seem to have seen him as a
peacenik. The subtext of political maneuver ahead of elections on Feb.
10 has been one of the more repellent aspects of the Gazan carnage.
The heroic Israeli narrative has run its course.
But what of the intolerable Hamas rockets on Sderot, the 20 Israelis
killed by those rockets since 2005 (four of them in the current
violence), the unconscionable annihilationist language of the Hamas
Charter? Yes, there has to be a response to Hamas, but this is the wrong
one.
It's been wrong since James Wolfensohn, the former World Bank president,
saw his attempts to get economic activity going in Gaza in 2005 thwarted
by border closure and "everything getting wasted." It's been wrong since
the Hamas electoral victory in 2006 led to ostracism.
Israel has the right to hit back at Hamas when attacked - but not to
blow Gaza to pieces. What it does not have the right to do is delude its
people into thinking that peace is achievable without coming to terms
with the deeply entrenched Middle Eastern realities that are Hamas and
Hezbollah.
Those realities have been strengthened by Olmert's last fling, the
reckless foray of a failed leader.
I had another dream: that Israeli Arabs, in need of work and cash, were
building bomb shelters for Jews in Sderot. Like the first, it proved to
be true. Money still talks in the Middle East. Alas, the dead talk
louder.
-- 
"Ci sarebbe poi da aprire un lungo capitolo sul
fatto che all'epoca di Gesů il Talmud avesse valore normativo: non lo
aveva e non č nemmeno citato dalla Magli." (zanardo in
a7656178-1862-4174...@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com
)

 lexicon, has called Gaza "a concentration camp."
E non è l'unico...
Tb

L'articolo lo ho visto, e alcuni punti mi sembrano condivisibili (p.
es. quando l'autore segnala l'inopportuno paragone tra Gaza e i lager,
che è caratteristico  delle dittature clericali ed oscurantiste). Tu
dell'aumento della violenza antisemita in Europa, segnalato da
quell'articolo dello IHT, cosa ne pensi? Per esempio, invitare all'uso
del bastone, può considerarsi un incitamento alla violenza?
---
"la popolazione va evacuata." (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir,
febbraio 2008)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/certo-che-i-qassam-sono-pericolosi_05.html

 del bastone, può considerarsi un incitamento alla violenza?
tu sei in Europa? E allora muto