Loyalist
01-06-2009, 06:53 PM
Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain.
Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday night. A Jewish congregation in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, also was attacked Monday night by someone who "broke a window and threw in something that was burning," said police spokesman Leif Nilsson. Neighbors alerted rescue services before the fire took hold.
Someone also started a blaze outside the premises last week. And on Sunday slogans including "murderers ... You broke the cease-fire" and "don't subject Palestine to ethnic cleansing" were daubed on Israel's embassy in Stockholm.
In Denmark, a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents is alleged to have injured two young Israelis last week, opening fire with a handgun in a shooting that police suspect could be linked to the Gaza crisis.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and a history of anti-Semitic violence flaring when tensions in the Middle East are high. In 2002, some 2,300 Jews left France for Israel because they felt unsafe. (Continues)
Source (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476866,00.html)
The irony is that Israel itself could be behind such actions. The country's suspicious reaction to the destruction of a Paris synagogue several years ago brought up accusations (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36565) of Mossad involvement. Of course, sabotaging their own people's interests abroad to encourage Jewish emigration to Israel, as well as to stir up sympathy from Gentiles, is admittedly less likely than the perpetrators simply being angry Muslim expatriates.
Assailants rammed a burning car into the gates of a synagogue in Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday night. A Jewish congregation in Helsingborg, in southern Sweden, also was attacked Monday night by someone who "broke a window and threw in something that was burning," said police spokesman Leif Nilsson. Neighbors alerted rescue services before the fire took hold.
Someone also started a blaze outside the premises last week. And on Sunday slogans including "murderers ... You broke the cease-fire" and "don't subject Palestine to ethnic cleansing" were daubed on Israel's embassy in Stockholm.
In Denmark, a 27-year-old Dane born in Lebanon of Palestinian parents is alleged to have injured two young Israelis last week, opening fire with a handgun in a shooting that police suspect could be linked to the Gaza crisis.
France has Western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities and a history of anti-Semitic violence flaring when tensions in the Middle East are high. In 2002, some 2,300 Jews left France for Israel because they felt unsafe. (Continues)
Source (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476866,00.html)
The irony is that Israel itself could be behind such actions. The country's suspicious reaction to the destruction of a Paris synagogue several years ago brought up accusations (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36565) of Mossad involvement. Of course, sabotaging their own people's interests abroad to encourage Jewish emigration to Israel, as well as to stir up sympathy from Gentiles, is admittedly less likely than the perpetrators simply being angry Muslim expatriates.