Posted on 07/30/2014 10:30:45 AM PDT by Dqban22
100 Spanish celebrities accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza July 29, 2014
Actress Penelope Cruz, shown at the 86th Annual Academy Awards, was one of 100 Spanish celebrities endorsing a letter accusing Israel of genocide.
SEVILLA, Spain (JTA) — A letter accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza was endorsed by 100 Spanish celebrities, including Academy Award winners Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
On Monday the actors, writers and directors endorsed a letter that Bardem published last week in the Barcelona-based El Periodico de Catalunya, the daily reported. “This is a war of occupation and extermination against a whole people without means, confined to a miniscule territory without water and where hospitals, ambulances, and children are targeted and presumed to be terrorists,” Bardem, himself an Academy Award-winning actor, wrote.
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor told JTA that “Rather than outrageously attacking a fellow democracy for defending itself against radical terrorists, the time of Spanish public figures would be better put to use fighting against the rapidly growing hatred of Jews in their country, which according to recent surveys is one of the highest in Europe. The gratuitous use of the term ‘genocide’ and the fact that no similar statement has been released while hundreds of thousands are massacred and made refugees in the Middle East and Africa demonstrates grave ignorance or extreme malice.”
Kantor added: “I would be interested in reading the opinion of the same Spanish celebrities after thousands of rockets are fired at Madrid or Barcelona.”
the rest of the history
http://www.jta.org/2014/07/29/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/100-spanish-celebrities-accuse-israel-of-genocide-in-gaza-1
They don't understand that the Arabs want to exterminate Spain. You'd think they'd know their own country's history, but this is the usual assortment of sodomites and communist entertainers for whom ignorance is a virtue.
HEY leave Charo alone I saw her on Love Boat just now LOL!
Yep, I referenced it in #30.
Am I the only one who thinks a headline about “100 Spanish celebrities” is funny?
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Nope. I chuckled too.
Whoda thunk they have 100 of them over there?
I can’t believe this ...I can’t believe that Spain has 100 celebrities
HA HA I just saw that never mind
I saw History of the world one of my HD Channel other night
How could I forget Hoochie-Koochie?! Xavier Cougat was another of the 3 Spanish celebrities!
OH Yeah I watching docuembtary on Queen Isabella they think that perhaps she has more Hebrew dna in her
That dirty little secret that Spanish don’t want talk about that their precious Warrior Queen her ancenstors might be Jews at one time
There is evidence that maybe craziness of Queen Juana her daughter might came from Arabic line that ran through bloodline of Portgual side of Queen Isaballa
Is it Granada - or Asbury Park? 100 Jersey Celebrities!
It is only a matter of time before the murdering muslims give the Spanish a refresher course on what Islam is about. The muzzies are still pissed about losing Spain in 1492.
Spain has celebrities?
I thought Senor Wences was the last one.
Spain has already bowed down and submitted to Islam so the muzzies don't need to fire rockets at Madrid or Barcelona.
Everyone, hold on! These are actors? Argument over - the truth has been declared. Anyone who can emote on cue from others’ words would have to have the final word on this, as on everything.
I believe it! My paternal Great grandmother’s maiden name was “Lopez De Lara”. Hebrew-Jewish names going back to the OT. They were Catholic though....
You know what I wouldn’t be surprise I have family friend who “research” family tree she found out her so many great parent was local Rabbi in the community like 1300 in Spain
Wow! That’s impressive if anybody can trace their family lineage on the Iberian Peninsula going back that far!
Spaniards & Portuguese aren’t known for keeping family records going back that far. I can only go back to the late 1850s in mine.
A FIRST HAND TESTIMONY FROM ISRAEL
I feel like I weigh 500 pounds.
Everyone I know feels like they are walking through water. And sad.
We are all so very, very sad.
This is what I know right now, today:
The ugliness, the venom and sheer, violent hatred you are seeing in Paris, London, Berlin, LA, Boston, Denver…. This is just the beginning.
We Jews are the canaries in the coal mine for all of humanity. Today, they are throwing bricks at synagogues and smashing chairs and saying “Kill the Jews.”
Tomorrow it will be someone else.
Do the French really think these people will protect and safeguard the treasures of the Louvre?
Do Londoners really think these people will cherish the symbols of the British Empire?
Does anyone really think this is only about Israel and the disputed territories?
Today it is Israel, tomorrow it will be you.
Maybe that is why everyone gets so disproportionately annoyed about this conflict.
Because everyone knows after us it gets real personal…
Seeing these violent protests, hearing the sickening screams for death we Israelis understand better than ever we must fight for every square inch and with all we have.
It matters not how much better our military is, how much more precise our targets can be.
It only matters that when the smoke clears Hamas is disarmed, destroyed, disabled and defeated. Forever.
Hamas. NOT the people of Gaza.
The majority of Israeli citizens feels so very sorry for them. Sorry they were misguided and elected these lunatics.
Sorry that in their desperation they allowed Hamas to fill the empty bedrooms next to their children’s room with rockets. Sorry that their leaders have mansions and swimming pools and are sitting in air conditioning in another city while they are sweating and wondering where the roof over their houses went. (If not their house itself.) Sorry that they have been brought up with no inkling of who Israelis are nor what compromise is.
Defeating Hamas will be a big problem for the power brokers because shame and honor are all that matter in this part of the world.
Honor in the Middle East does not come from whether your children are literate, how successful you are, how much money you make, how civilized your community is, nor how many paved roads you have, and whether or not you have garbage collection and recycling.
Here in this part of the world- for Hamas,
Honor comes from killing Jews/Israelis and getting revenge each time we retaliate.
For them killing a Jew/ Israeli is everything.
For them killing Jews is the only thing.
Remember we left Gaza. There was no blockade. They were free to build a model democracy- the first successful shining, taste of the new, proud Palestine. But they didn’t want that kind of success…
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
We will not be fooled again.
We have nowhere else to go.
And the rockets won’t stop.
The folks living in the Southern parts of Israel up to Ashkelon, cannot shower, have a bowel movement, get more milk or walk a dog without wondering if they are taking their lives in their own hands.
There is another Gaza underneath Gaza.
Hamas could have built hundred of schools, paved thousands of roads, build hundreds of kindergartens with the cement and iron they got from Israel and which they have used to build these underground bunkers and tunnels.
(and you wondered why Israel put a blockade on bringing building supplies into the Gaza strip?)
These tunnels to hell are filled with ammunition.
And no women or children, not a single elderly person is brought to safety there.
They want them on the street- on the roof, standing right behind- nice and close to the terrorist firing the rocket.
Hamas has refused to let journalists out of Gaza.
Why? They need them to take pictures and record the carefully staged piles of bloody children and women. If the journalists leave they have lost the vehicle for distributing their bloody ad campaign.
Hamas asked for a cease-fire. And they broke it. They break every single one.
Israel set up a massive field hospital to treat our enemies. From a week ago and on, there is a working maternity ward, an operating room…a working hospital.
For who?… For our enemies.
We are going to lose more boys. We have lost more than 56 young men. Today the kidnaped a young officer. With each day we are going to lose more.
But everyone here now understands this is a fight to the death. It is them or us.
They don’t want to compromise and they don’t want peace or to share or to negotiate. They want to kill as many Jews as possible, even if it means killing their own people.
So we have to go in there and do things none of us want to do, but we have to.
So this is why we are all so sad.
Israelis want peace so badly.
But we also desperately want to live. We love life and we are not about to let anyone, let alone a bunch of deranged thugs take it away from us.
So yes, this is a fight to the death for both sides.
Remember, if they win, you are next.
When we will win, those symbols of civilization that everyone takes so for granted will remain standing and everyone will criticize and complain about disproportionate responses and war crimes and all kinds of other irrelevant nonsense, but secretly I think everyone will be heaving a sigh of relief.
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