Spain’s anti-Israel virtue signaling backfires

Washington Examiner ^ | 7 June 2024 | Zachary Faria

[Rummyfan]

Anti-Israel virtue signaling is usually reserved for know-nothing college students who may or may not be smart enough to realize how antisemitic their movement is. Sometimes, though, even whole countries find out how virtue signaling can backfire.

Ireland, Norway, and Spain all decided to reward Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians and promise to continue to try and kill Israeli civilians by declaring that they would recognize “Palestine” as an independent state. As part of that process, Norway will be turning its diplomatic office in the West Bank into an embassy, and Ireland announced it would create an embassy as well.

Spain, though, is sticking with its consulate in Jerusalem for now, even though Israel said the consulate will not be able to provide resources to Palestinians.

Spanish media is reporting that this is because Spanish diplomats in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv don’t want to live or work in Palestinian territory, both because of the lesser quality of life and because of concerns about their own safety. Maybe, just maybe, rewarding terrorists with a country so you could condemn the world’s only Jewish state was a poorly thought-out plan in the first place.

[Rummyfan]

LOL! Political statements clash with reality. Emphasis mine BTW.

[occamrzr06]

Nobody expects the Inquisition.

[Yulee]

Norway will be turning its diplomatic office in the West Bank into an embassy
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“West Bank?”.

The area of Judea and Samaria from the Bible?

The area that was part of Israel in 1000BC, and remained so, until the Romans expelled the Jews in 70 AD (renaming the area Palestine)?

The area that was part of The Palestinian Mandate (meant for the establishment of a Jewish state), and left over after two thirds of that same mandate was given to a Saudi Prince in 1921 and named “The Emirate of Transjordan”?

The area originally meant to be part of the Jewish state that was invaded by Transjordan in 1948, occupied, declared part of of “Jordan” (the rename state of Transjordan), since Transjordan meant east of the Jordan, and now they occupied the area west of the Jordan and half of Jerusalem?

The area that Jordan no longer calls part of Jordan?

It seems that Norway and Spain have forgotten their Judean Christian roots.

[BobL]

Norway is an interesting case - they literally have NO REASON to hate Israel, but they do, basically to Nazi-levels, nearly as much as today’s Democrats...and they even hated Israel long before the massacre of Jews there. No one can even figure it out...just plain hatred.

[jjotto]

Martin Luther

[af_vet_1981]

Martin Luther

Concur;

Religion in Norway is dominated by Lutheran Christianity, with 63.7% of the population belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2022. The Catholic Church is the next largest Christian church at 3.1%. The unaffiliated make up 18.3% of the population.

[Zathras]

No one I know would enjoy being forced to live in the West Bank.
Not as dangerous as Gaza but close.

[Don W]

Uhm, “Transjordan” means “Across the Jordan”. Hence the name when it was first declared, on BOTH sides of said river.

Then the West Bank was separated from that state, which was subsequently re-named Jordan, since it was no longer on both sides of the river.

[MinorityRepublican]

Spanish media is reporting that this is because Spanish diplomats in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv don’t want to live or work in Palestinian territory.

I've been to Bethlehem. So they could set up an office there.