An Arab Country Builds a Wall Too

Everybody knows that there has been a great deal of international condemnation of Israel for building its anti-terrorist barrier about twelve years ago. But other countries build walls too for security. Spain built high, especially strong fences around its enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco. By the way, these two enclaves have been ruled by Spain for more than 500 years. The Spaniards wanted to stop migrants from coming into Ceuta and Melilla. That's why Spain built the fence and that fence has gotten some world publicity, although not as much and not as unfavorable as the publicity for Israel's fence or barrier, often called The Wall.

But Tunisia's wall has hardly gotten any publicity at all. Well, of course, Tunisia is Arab so obviously few journalists will dare to criticize it. But this wall seems to also be motivated by genuine security concerns not altogether different from those  of Israel and Spain. But I only learned about it when I picked up some old articles I had brought home from a trip to Italy in 2015.

We read in Avvenire ("Popotus" 9 July 2015) that Tunisia was building the wall --no doubt finished by now-- because of the chaos in Libya which meant that many many terrorists were able to find refuge there. Apparently the Tunisians too were worried about terrorists crossing the border from Libya. And everybody knew that Arab terrorists kill Arabs too. Not only Jews get killed by Arab Muslim jihadis. The decision to build the wall was taken shortly after terrorists attacked Western tourists on a vacation beach in Sousse, Tunisia. The Tunisian prime minister stated he was building the wall:

"in order to prevent the infiltration of Libyan terrorists onto [our] territory"

[Avvenire 9 July 2015]

The barrier was to be 168 kilometers long along one-third of Tunisia's border with Libya. It was to be finished by the end of 2015.

So how is that? Even an Arab state felt a need to build a wall of its very very own.
So can we hear a little less hypocrisy about Israel's security barrier?

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The Spanish enclaves on the Moroccan coast go back to the 15th century.
Ceuta' was taken by Don Juan of Portugal in 1415 and the enclave later passed to Spanish possession under the treaty of Lisbon of 1640. Melilla was taken by Spain in 1497. The small island of Alhucemas just off the coast of Morocco was taken by Spain in 1490, while Arabs still ruled the kingdom of Granada in European Spain. Recall that Arab and Berber [= Moorish] forces conquered most of Spain in the early 8th century.

Spain drove the Jews out of Spain, now Spain's socialist govt wants to drive the people of Israel out of the Land of Israel

UPDATING 8-22-2011 at bottom

Anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of fools

More than 500 years ago, Spain didn't want the Jews in their country. Now it turns out that the Socialist govt of Spain doesn't want the Jews in their own country, in the Jews' country. That is, in Israel.

Guysen reports the statement of the Spanish foreign minister, one Trinidad Jiménez.

Ms Trinidad Jiménez, foreign minister of Spain,

expressed the wish that the meeting of European Union foreign affairs ministers, scheduled for next week, will move ahead the recognition of a Palestinian state. In an interview with the newspaper El Pais, she stated: "There is a feeling that now is the moment to do something, to give the Palestinians the hope that a state can become reality. We must give them a signal, for if we don't do so, that might generate great frustration among the Palestinians."

Espagne : il est temps de donner l'espoir d'un pays aux Palestiniens
La ministre espagnole des Affaires étrangères Trinidad Jimenez a fait le voeu que la réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères de l'Union européenne, prévue la semaine prochaine fera progresser la reconnaissance d'un Etat palestinien. Dans une interview au journal El Païs, elle a affirmé : ''Il y a le sentiment que c'est le moment maintenant de faire quelque chose, de donner aux Palestiniens l'espoir qu'un Etat puisse devenir réalité. Nous devons leur donner un signal, car si nous ne le faisons pas, cela pourrait générer une grande frustration chez les Palestiniens''.
[Guysen News 8-21-2011]

So the EU and PLO/PA [here called "palestinians"] don't have to honor signed agreements with Israel. The EU doesn't have to respect its own "Quartet" guidelines for a settlement. The Jews don't deserve hope. The Jews don't deserve respect for their lives --note that this statement comes after murderous onslaughts by Arab/Muslim terrorists on Israel. International law regarding the conditions for determining that a state exists and that it deserves to be recognized as such are of no importance as the 21st century descendants of those who drove Jews out of Spain in 1492 repeat their ancestors' cruelty, this time not against Jews in Spain but against Jews in their own historic homeland. But the poor "palestinians", a people unknown to history, first appearing in the 1960s as a psychological warfare/cognitive warfare concept, have rights that the Jews, descended from ancient Israel, do not have. Maybe next week Madame Trinidad will tell us that the Jews ought to be punished for crucifying Jesus.
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8-21-2011 German Press Agency [Deutsche Presse Agentur - DPA] also reports on the Spanish FM's statement, although mistakenly identifying her as a male. A person of any gender that you can imagine can be deadly and dangerous in the office of foreign minister.
8-22-2011 UPDATING -- The Spanish ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Israeli foreign ministry today for an explanation of Madame Jiménez's simplistic concern over not causing "frustration" to those Arabs now fashionably identified as "palestinians." The ambassador is said to have explained that his minister was not understood [Israel Radio in French & in El Pais in Spanish].
The original interview in El Pais & a report in Spanish of the Spanish FM's silly or disingenuous remarks about "hope" for Arabs, not for Jews [aqui & in El Pais aqui]. This is a way for the Eurohypocrites to encourage the Arabs to make war on Israel and slaughter our civilians. The British are veteran practitioners of these warmongering tricks and it seems that Spanish diplomats have learned them too.

Israel complains to Spain over FM's comment on a Palestinian state [Israel Radio web site]

"The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has voiced its objection to comments made by Spain's foreign minister that Madrid has decided to recognize a Palestinian state in ...The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has voiced its objection to comments made by Spain's foreign minister that Madrid has decided to recognize a Palestinian state in order to allow the Palestinian people to realize their dream.
"The Spanish ambassador to Israel was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, where he was told by Deputy Director General for European Affairs, Naor Gilon, that the comments by the foreign minister were disappointing and surprising.
"The Spanish ambassador is said to have replied that the comments, in a Spanish newspaper interview, were not understood correctly, and that Spain has not yet decided how to vote when the United Naitons is expected to vote on a Palestinian state.
"The ambassador to Israel said that Spain would support such a resolution if it also stressed the need to return to the negotiating table and to ensure that Israel's security would be preserved in any agreement ."

Note Spain's disingenuous hypocrisy. Instead of telling the PLO/PA to negotiate for a state with Israel, it tells Israel and that the PLO/PA should negotiate after it is no longer necessary for them to negotiate in order to obtain a state. Recall that today's Socialist Spanish govt follows the same pro-Arab policy as Spain's fascist govt under Francisco Franco.

Deadly EuroHypocrisy in Spain -- No war criminals except in Israel [can it be?]

Anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of fools

We have long believed that the UK is the most dangerous Euro state for Israel. Certain forces in Britain have been working for the mass murder of Jews since 1920 or earlier. However, other Euro powers are doing their hypocritical best for that cause as you read this. Spain has long had a pro-Arab, anti-Israel policy. This goes back to the fascist dictator Francisco Franco y Bahamonde as he was fighting the bloody Spanish civil war back in the 1930s. Many Nazi veterans, such as Otto Skorzeny, got refuge in Spain after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Skorzeny was a war criminal as were others of his comrades in Spain. One of the ways that Skorzeny made a few spare pesos in his time was to sell Spanish weapons to Egypt and other Arabs. None of these war criminals in Spain was ever extradited for trial. Nazi commemorative ceremonies were held publicly in Spain.

What is significant is that the pro-Arab, anti-Israel policy of fascist Franco continued to be pursued by the "democratic" governments of Spain, including the socialists, after the Franco regime was removed. Any Spanish politician or official 45 years of age or older would have gone to school [for at least part of his school years] in schools subject to Franco's pro-Arab, anti-Jewish curriculum. That includes Rodriguez Zapatero, the current socialist prime minister and his foreign minister, Moratinos. We might also bear in mind that after expelling the Jews in 1492, Spain forbid Jews to live there legally until well into the 20th century. There is no shame over that historical fact on the part of either Rodriguez Zapatero or Moratinos. Zapatero is said to have made some vile remarks about Israel recently over the Gaza War in which he clearly sided with the Muslim jihadist and Judeophobic Hamas. More recently, a Spanish judge climbed up on his Eurohypocritical hobby horse to indict Israeli military officers for defending their people from mass murderous Hamas terrorism. Now, Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has exposed the ugly, hypocritical heart of Spain's pro-Arab policy [here]. Samuels' arguments could to one extent or other be made about other officials in other EU states. Here is the Center's press release in toto:

Wiesenthal Centre to Spanish Prime Minister: "Why Does Spain's 'Universal Jurisprudence' Legislation Target Israelis But Not War Criminals and Human Rights Violators in Spain?"

Paris, 2 March 2009

In a letter to Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, noted the Centre's "great concern at the apparent misappropriation of Spain's 1993 law of 'universal jurisprudence', which grants power to Spanish judges to prosecute delicts beyond Spanish territory, committed by non-Spaniards against non-Spaniards. As recently witnessed in Belgium, such a regime is subject to political mischief as, indeed, is Judge Fernando Andreu's pursuit for war crimes of seven senior Israeli political and military figures."

"Among them figure, respectively, the former Israeli Defence and Security Minister, Chief of Staff, Commander of the Air Force, the head of the National Security Council and their advisors. Andreu charges them for the 'targeted killing', in July 2002, of Salah Shehadeh, leader of an organisation designated as terrorist in the European Union – 'Izzeddin Al Kassam', the military wing of Hamas. It was Shehadeh who indoctrinated, trained and despatched hundreds of suicide bombers into Israel for the mass murder of Jewish civilians."

In 1996, Samuels had presented to the then Spanish Prime Minister, José-Maria Aznar, the Centre's list of Nazi mass murderers of Jews and their collaborators, who were granted post-War refuge in Spain. These included Léon Degrelle, the Belgian mentor of a new generation of Spanish neo-Nazis," stressing that "none were ever prosecuted and several died with impunity in Spain."

He also lamented "the cosseting of Middle East terrorist movements did not prevent the 2004 Atocha station atrocity in Madrid."

The letter similarly pointed to North Africa, "where Guardia Civil brutality against African refugees seeking to enter Spain's colonial settlements of Ceuta and Melilla has never been publicly investigated, nor has the legality of your 'Apartheid Wall' that separates these enclaves from the surrounding Moroccan territory."

Samuels registered greatest astonishment at "the December 2008 decision of the National Audience Tribunal to leave intact the 1977 Amnesty for political crimes committed under Franco. Compensation has thus been denied to thousands of families of those 'disappeared' in the Civil War and thereafter. The 17 judges have denoted the Franco prelude to World War II as a simple 'rebellion', thereby consigning the victims of Spanish Fascism to oblivion, and effectively granting its perpetrators a State pardon."

The Centre identified one of these Judges as "His Honour, Fernando Andreu, who was, perhaps, distracted in constituting his charge-sheet against Israel," adding that "Andreu, apparently, plans to issue international arrest warrants for the seven Israeli officials, calling for their detention upon arrival in any of the 27 European Union member-states."

The Centre also questioned Prime Minister Zapatero as to:
"Why his authorities have not issued arrest warrants for the Spanish associates of Zapatero's Socialist predecessor, Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who were, reportedly, implicated in death squad 'targeted killings' of ETA Basque terrorists?
Do not all terrorists have equal human rights, even when they attack Spanish citizens on Spanish soil? Does your 'universal jurisprudence' regime that targets Israelis, override domestic justice in Spain?"

"There is a Hebrew word that sums up 2,000 years of antisemitism – "HUTZPA". Its Spanish translation – "atrevimiento" – hardly does it justice.
But neither does Spain's arbitrary 'universal jurisprudence,'" concluded Samuels.

For further information, please contact Shimon Samuels at +33.609.77.01.58.
END of PRESS RELEASE

The execution of Shahadeh was legal according to Article 28 of Geneva Convention IV. This article stipulates that the presence of protected persons [non-combatants] where a military target is also located does not grant immunity to that place:

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [quoting Geneva Convention, adopted 12 August 1949]
Article 28

The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations
[see our blog entry here]

Shehadeh was responsible as a terrorist leader and planner of mass murder attacks for the murder of dozens of Israelis. If he had not been eliminated, he would been involved in the murder of many many more Israelis.

It's curious that actual genocide went on in the southern Sudan for fifty [50] years at least, with millions of civilians slaughtered, from the year of Sudanese independence, 1956, into the 21st century. The ever so righteous "international community" never took steps to stop that mass murder, which was facilitated by the UK giving the Sudan independence as a unitary state, rather than a federation of confederation or two or more separates. This state, which had never existed before 1956, was a Muslim state ruled by Arabs and arabized blacks who lorded it over tribal Blacks in the South who were Christian or followed traditional tribal religions. So the British set up the conditions for genocide, wittingly or unwittingly, but they did know that the Muslims of the North had long raided the South for slaves [permitted by Islam if the victims are Kaffirs, non-believers, infidels]. The British knowledge of the history of that territory, never a nation or a single people, should have been enough for them to grant to independence to Sudan as some sort of federated or confederal state or as two or more states. Just recently the International Criminal Court indicted the Sudanese genocidist al-Bashir for his crimes in the west of the territory, Darfur, not the massacres in the south.

Anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of fools

UPDATING 3-15-2009
Let us be fair. Many Spaniards are ashamed of their government's pro-Hamas position. Here is one of them, Militos commenting on a post on the blog of Martha Colmenares. Martha is a Venezolana, which makes her doubly brave since she has to watch out to see if Chavez's goons are watching her:

Hola Martha: me alegro que des a conocer esta noticia aunque sea una vergüenza para nosotros los españoles. El único pais de Europa que se pone del lado terrorista.
Un abrazo

Militos says: "It is shameful [sea una vergüenza] for us Spaniards. . . [that our country, Spain] is the only country in Europe to take the side of the terrorists."
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Coming: Obama's anti-peace peacemongering, dancing with the ayatollahs, adopting the Commie policy of a "Two State Final Solution," Jerusalem archeology, propaganda analysis, etc.