Zionist
Supremacism was on full display in Paris, hogging the spotlight.
Netanyahu to French Jews: ‘Come home to Israel from terrible European anti-Semitism’
11
January, 2014
Israeli
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has invited Jews from France and the rest of
Europe to immigrate to the state of Israel, referring to what he sees
as a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” there. The statement comes in
the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
“To
all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say
that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the
state of Israel is your home,”
Prime
Minister Netanyahu said in a televised statement on Saturday,
referencing the Jewish tradition of facing Jerusalem when praying.
Netanyahu
called on lawmakers to alter the existing immigration laws to make it
easier for Jews to permanently move to Israel.
“This
week, a special team of ministers will convene to advance steps to
increase immigration from France and other countries in Europe that
are suffering from terrible anti-Semitism,” Netanyahu
said.
“All
Jews who want to immigrate to Israel will be welcomed here warmly and
with open arms. We will help you in your absorption here in our state
that is also your state.”
The
Israeli leader’s statement comes after more than a dozen of people
were killed, including at least four Jews, during the three days of
terrorist attacks in France.
Netanyahu
identified the four victims as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan
Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada.
“We
express our deep sorrow for our Jewish brothers who were murdered
simply because they were Jews,” he
said. “[To] our
brothers and sisters in the Jewish community of France we share your
pain at the awful loss.”
The
four victims were the hostages killed on Friday by gunman Amedy
Coulibaly, who stormed a kosher supermarket before the start of the
Jewish Sabbath on Friday. French police eventually raided the market,
killing Coulibaly.
The
siege occurred at roughly the same time as the Charlie Hebdo suspects
were surrounded in Dammartin-en-Goele northeast of Paris.
This
all came after Wednesday’s attack on Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters
in Paris, when gunmen, identified as Cherif and Said Kouachi, went
into the office and shot 12 people dead, including ten journalists.
Netanyahu
added that radicalized Islam is threatening the western world and the
Jewish people are a target.
“Unless
the world comes to its senses, terror will continue to strike in
other places,” he said.
‘Best
precaution for Jews: move to Israel’
At
the same time, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman held a
meeting with security officials discussng attacks in France.
After
the meeting, Lieberman warned the analysis of “all the security
establishments, in Europe, the US and here [in Israel] is that this
terror wave will continue. There is always a desire to carry out
copycat attacks … The best security precaution [for Jews] may be
aliya [immigration] to Israel. I hope that French Jews will start
immigrating to Israel in significant numbers,” Lieberman told
Channel 2.
“Europe
has not yet internalized that the foreign fighters coming back [from
the Middle East] to European soil or those who have connections to al
Qaeda or Daesh [the Arab acronym for the Islamic State] are a real,
serious threat,” he
said.
It
has been estimated that around 1,000 French nationals have left to
join terrorist-linked camps in Iraq and Syria.
Netanyahu
and Lieberman will be arriving in Paris on Sunday to join other world
leaders for a rally in support of the victims. The march is expected
to attract over a million people.
Defense
Minister Moshe Ya’alon also supported the idea of more French
immigration into Israel, highlighting the dangers the Jewish
community is facing with abroad.
“The
Jewish community, not just in France, [also in] Belgium and other
places, Sweden, is under attack, a combined Islamist, anti-Semitic
attack,” Ya’alon
said.
“We knew that if
[radical] Islam raised its head in Europe, the Jews would be the
first to be harmed. The safest place for Jews is in the national home
of Jews.”
On
the other hand, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed the
importance of the Jewish community in France.
"If
100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never
say that France is not France anymore," Valls
said while visiting the kosher market that was involved in the
attack. "But if
100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French
Republic will be judged a failure.”
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