EU 'diplomats' become foreign provocateurs
On Friday, a group of IDF soldiers clashed with a group of foreign activists who were attempting to help 'Palestinians' rebuild a village that had been demolished on orders of the Supreme Court earlier this week. The activists included European 'diplomats' including one loud-mouthed French woman who accused the IDF of violating her '
human rights.'
Homes in the Palestinian Beduin community of Khirbet Al-Makhul were
originally demolished earlier this week after the High Court of Justice
ruled that they did not have proper building permits.
The IDF
prevented activists from putting up new tents on Friday and confiscated
equipment used to raise the makeshift settlement.
The IDF
spokesman's office said that security forces encountered rock throwing
and used riot dispersal methods in handling the incident. Three
Palestinians were arrested and the area was declared a closed military
zone.
A Reuters reporter saw soldiers throw sound grenades at a
group of diplomats, aid workers and locals, and yank a French diplomat
out of the truck before driving away with its contents.
"They
dragged me out of the truck and forced me to the ground with no regard
for my diplomatic immunity," French diplomat Marion Castaing said.
"This is how international law is being respected here," she said, covered with dust.
The
IDF stated that "reports that foreign diplomats abused their diplomatic
privileges are currently being reviewed, and if required, complaints
will be filed with the relevant authorities."
Read the whole thing.
The picture above was released by the IDF after European media claimed that an IDF soldier pointed a gun at Castaing.
And how did Castaing wind up on the ground? Well she got there by herself but not until after - at the 0:53 mark of the videotape below - you'll see her land a punch to an IDF soldier's jaw.
Let's go to the videotape (from Iran's Press TV of all places).
On its
official blog, the IDF has the following to say:
The photo used to spread this misinformation was taken as a screenshot
from a video with footage clearly showing that Marion Castaing was
neither physically dragged to the floor nor had guns pointed at her.
Also, the photo clearly shows that the officer is holding his gun by the
magazine, nowhere near the rifle’s grip.
Kind of reminds you of this scene, doesn't it?
Sorry folks, but diplomatic immunity doesn't give you the right to go around committing crimes in the host country. Ask
Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It doesn't give you a license to interfere with the host country's army or law enforcement, and you do so at your own risk. I'd bet on an attempt to have Castaing declared persona non grata and deported back to France. Good riddance.
In case you missed it in the video, here's the screen shot of the punch:
Labels: building permits, diplomatic immunity, European anti-Semitism, European Union, France, IDF, Supreme Court
10 European countries to upgrade 'Palestinian' missions
Chief 'Palestinian'
negotiator bottle washer Saeb Erekat claims that ten European countries are ready to upgrade the status of their 'Palestinian diplomatic missions' from 'representative offices' to 'embassies of an occupied state with defined borders.' This would give the
diplomats terrorists in those countries
diplomatic immunity.
Erekat said that the move follows Norway’s recent decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian representative office. Moreover, the move comes in wake of three South American countries to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, he added.
A PA official told The Jerusalem Post that the decision to seek international recognition of a Palestinian state was designed to shift the conflict from one over “occupied Palestinian territories” to one over an “occupied state with defined borders.”
The official said that while the Palestinians did not expect the recognition to end Israeli “occupation,” it would increase international support for the Palestinians and their cause.
Erekat said that the Palestinian position has earned the support of a majority in the international community.
Erekat did not say which EU countries were expected to upgrade the status of the Palestinian representative missions.
Earlier this week, the PA said it has appealed to several EU countries separately to recognize a Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967, borders.
The PLO negotiator said that Norway’s decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian office to embassy level had “embarrassed and worried” the Israeli government.
“The Israelis are afraid that the issue of recognition of a Palestinian state would enter the EU,” he said. “We urge the international community to salvage the two-state solution by recognizing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.”
Erekat said that the issue of recognizing a Palestinian state was a “free, independent and sovereign” matter for each country.
The US administration can’t prevent other countries from exercising their sovereign right, he said.
And accepting the Jewish state's right to exist is apparently not part of the deal.
Nabil Sha’ath, another member of the PA negotiating team, said the Palestinians would accept nothing less than an independent state on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the “right of return” for refugees.
He ruled out the possibility that the Palestinians would resort at this stage to an armed struggle against Israel, saying that the best option for now was a “popular struggle.”
Of course, if the 'refugees' came to Israel, there would be no Jewish state left.
What could go wrong?
Labels: diplomatic immunity, Saeb Erekat
Indian ambassador to the US subjected to 'enhanced patdown'
Give them credit for one thing in the US: When they're politically correct, they're politically correct. Last Saturday, in Jackson, Mississippi, the morons from
TSA decided to grope the Indian ambassador to the United States, despite the fact that she had a diplomatic passport.
India's government expressed anger Thursday at a personal security check performed on India's ambassador to the United States, Meera Shanka. Shankar was searched by security personnel at the the Jackson-Ever International airport in Mississippi on December 4 on her way from a speech at a local college. She was pegged as "suspicious," Indian officials said, because she was a wearing a traditional Indian sari outfit. She displayed diplomatic documents, but was forced to undergo a full body pat-down anyway, Indian Foreign Ministry officials said in a formal complaint to the U.S. State Department.
"This is unacceptable to India," said Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna. "I am rather surprised by the way the ambassador has been treated."
Of course, if it were the Saudi ambassador to the US, this never would have happened. After all, that would have been 'Islamophobic.'
Remember how angry the Americans got last summer because Israel '
debriefed' former Clinton Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala? And she isn't even a diplomat anymore! Besides, I'd rather be 'debriefed' than have some TSA agent groping inside my briefs.
If I were the Indian foreign minister, I'd recall the ambassador for 'consultations' for a couple of weeks. Maybe then these morons running 'airport security' in the US would start to get it.
Labels: diplomatic immunity, Meera Shanka, strip or grope, TSA
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