Posted on 05/24/2024 11:46:09 AM PDT by SJackson
Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced Friday that the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem will no longer provide services to Palestinians from the West Bank following Spain’s announcement that it will recognize an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
“I have decided to sever the connection between the Spanish mission to Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank,” Katz said in a statement.
Referring to Spain’s Labor and Economy Minister Yolanda Díaz, who drew allegations of antisemitism for her use of the phrase “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea,” Katz said that if “this ignorant hate-filled person wants to truly understand what radical Islam wants, she should learn about the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus — modern-day Spain.”
The phrase “From the river to the sea,” which references the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, is viewed by many Jews and others as antisemitic as it promotes a reality in which Israel does not exist as a Jewish homeland, leading some to see it as a call for ethnic cleansing or genocide against Israel’s Jews.
Tensions have cropped up between Jerusalem and Madrid in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught – in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed, and 252 were kidnapped – and the ongoing war in Gaza, where Israel is fighting to dismantle the Palestinian terror group’s capabilities.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced Friday that the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem will no longer provide services to Palestinians from the West Bank following Spain’s announcement that it will recognize an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
“I have decided to sever the connection between the Spanish mission to Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank,” Katz said in a statement.
Referring to Spain’s Labor and Economy Minister Yolanda Díaz, who drew allegations of antisemitism for her use of the phrase “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea,” Katz said that if “this ignorant hate-filled person wants to truly understand what radical Islam wants, she should learn about the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus — modern-day Spain.”
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The video player is currently playing an ad. The phrase “From the river to the sea,” which references the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, is viewed by many Jews and others as antisemitic as it promotes a reality in which Israel does not exist as a Jewish homeland, leading some to see it as a call for ethnic cleansing or genocide against Israel’s Jews.
Tensions have cropped up between Jerusalem and Madrid in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught – in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed, and 252 were kidnapped – and the ongoing war in Gaza, where Israel is fighting to dismantle the Palestinian terror group’s capabilities.
By signing up, you agree to the terms In November 2023, then-foreign minister Eli Cohen recalled Israel’s ambassador after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he had “serious doubt” over the legality of the war with Hamas.
Spain’s ambassador to Israel was also summoned for a reprimand over that incident.
Several Spanish lawmakers have also come under fire from Jewish and Israeli groups in recent months for anti-Israel or antisemitic statements, including Youth and Children Minister Sira Rego, who on October 16 said that Palestinians had the “right to resist after decades of occupation” and called for “the entire Israeli diplomatic delegation” to be expelled from Spain.
Spain, alongside Ireland and Norway, announced on Wednesday that it was set to recognize a Palestinian state.
Jerusalem responded angrily to the announcements, recalling its ambassadors there for immediate consultations.
The Foreign Ministry summoned on Thursday those countries’ envoys in Israel to view a video of the capture of female Israel Defense Forces soldiers by the terror group Hamas on October 7.
After the screening, the three were dressed down by senior diplomats, although Katz, who ordered that they be hauled in for the reprimand and screening, was away on a diplomatic trip to France and so was not present.
He had previously said that showing them the footage would “underscore to them what a twisted decision their governments made.”
The Kan public broadcaster reported that the screening of the footage, alongside the prohibitions on the Spanish consulate, was just one of several ways that Israel planned to retaliate against the diplomats for their countries’ recognition of a Palestinian state. According to the report, the government was also considering banning them from briefings.
Just break relations.
Dear minister. “From the Jordan to the Med, your hamas-shole pals should all be dead.”
Reasonable, they can go to the Spanish embassy in Jordan or Syria. Lebanon and Egypt won't let them in without a non Palestinian passport.
From the Mediterranean to the Bay of Biscay, Al-Andalus will be free
Even under Franco, Spain was no friend of Israel.
‘NOBODY expects the Spanish Palestinian!’
The Palestinians don’t want a two state solution. Why doesn’t anyone think to ask them? They want one state and that it is a caliphate. Nothing less.
Thank you! I was hoping someone could make a meme like that
The Spanish Inquisition got it’s start by persecuting Jews who were accused of aiding and abetting the Muslim occupation of Spain.
Many of those Jews were able to pay bribes and then flee Spain...often for the Americas. The bribes seeming to be the principle motivator for the Inquisition.
Don’t have to ask, they don’t keep it a secret. Some of their supporters, especially many of the ignorant students protesting, don’t listen.
And when they say “From the River to the Sea”, they mean pushing the Jews into the sea.
That's a just a "nice" way of describing what they really want to do, which they demonstrated to everyone on October 7th.
In 1492, via the Alhambra Decree, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain ordered the expulsion of a disputed number of Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, ranging from 45,000 to 200,000, and thus put an end to the largest communities in Europe. The expulsion of the Jews from Navarre followed suit in 1498.
“Palestinians will be free to leave from the river to the sea.”
Yeah. The Arabs were colonizers and the Jews are the indigenous people. Let the Arab colonizers leave. ( Spain should know a lot about Arab colonizers. The Spanish kicked them out. Let the Jews do the same thing.)
The inquisition began in the 12th century, persecuting Christian heretics. Persecution of Jews in Spain began in the 14th century. Once the expulsion order was signed, beyond the 4 month “fire sale” period, there were no Jews to bribe anyone. You may be thinking about Conversos, Jews converted to Catholicism, who were often targeted by the Inquisition as heretics from the 14th century beginning. Some scholars, including Benzion Netanyahu (Bibis dad) considered prominent on the topic, most of the Conversos killed or punished were in fact not hidden Jews, simply converts in a time of illiteracy with two disadvantages. Growing up without a Catholic upbringing thus being somewhat unfamiliar with Catholic traditions and having either enemies, assets which were coveted, or both.
The atrocities of the Inquisition also had a lot to do with the secular revolts that swept Latin America and eventually Spain itself.
The Inquisition was probably Catholicism’s worst self-inflicted injury.
Just going to cause more fighting
And Spain fell from being a world power to being a 3rd-rate country, never to recover. Spanish racists ruined their own country, banishing the intelligent and productive members of their society.
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