[Drugmachine]

http://www.hudson-ny.org/1644/spain-...mitism-lawfare

Spain has become a haven for anti-Israel lawfare.

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis RodrÃÂguez Zapatero, who makes no secret of his dislike of Zionism, is well known in Spain for his anti-Israel and anti-Jewish outbursts. At a dinner party in the Moncloa Palace (the Spanish White House) in 2005, for example, Zapatero addressed his guests by launching into a tirade of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist rhetoric that ended with the phrase: "It is understandable that someone might justify the Holocaust."

Now, Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, who took office on October 21, has decided to keep in place the anti-Israel "lawfare" policies of her predecessor, Miguel ÃÂ�ngel Moratinos. The disclosure came after Justice Minister Francisco Caamaño DomÃÂnguez and she refused to grant diplomatic immunity from arrest or interrogation to former Shin Bet Chief MK Avi Dichter (Kadima party), who was planning on taking part in a seminar on the Middle East peace in Madrid on October 29-30.

Zapatero has also sought to restore Spain's traditionally strong ties with the Arab world by ingratiating himself with Israel's enemies. During the Second Lebanon War, for example, Zapatero participated in an anti-Israel rally where he wrapped himself in a Palestinian kaffiyeh (scarf) and gratuitously accused Israel of using "abusive force that does not protect innocent human beings." Just for good measure, Zapatero then dispatched Moratinos to Syria, a move the Israeli foreign ministry said proved that the Spanish government was "closer to Hezbollah terrorists than to the Israeli government."

Zapatero, who refuses to visit Israel (even as the two countries commemorated 20 years of diplomatic ties in 2006), also refers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a "cancer" that is metastasizing into all the other conflicts in the region. As a disciple of postmodern moral equivalency, Zapatero naturally believes the "cancer" is Israel, not Islamic terrorism.

The anti-Israel rhetoric in Spain has become so pronounced in recent years that lately even newspapers traditionally favorable to Israel have been switching sides. In August 2009, the center-right newspaper ABC published a "moral equivalency" article titled "Iran and Israel: Obama's Ticking Time Bomb." Quoting anonymous sources, the article gives readers the impression that Israel is somehow more dangerous than Iran.

And in July 2009, the center-right newspaper El Mundo refused to publish a letter submitted by the Israeli ambassador to Spain, who was attempting to refute a string of inaccuracies in a story the newspaper published about Israel.

During Moratinos' six-year tenure as foreign minister, relations between Spain and Israel slumped to their lowest level since bilateral relations were established in 1986. So low, in fact, that Israel now has better ties with Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan or Morocco than it does with Spain.

[Raj_Copi_Jin]

The spirit of Franco is still burnining as brightly as ever in Spain by the sound of things

[Fegasderty]

The rain in Spain comes mainly in the plane.... Michelle O. recently took that plane to Spain on a personal two week vocation, at tax-payer expense of course, along with her Mom, children and whole bunch of maids.

In Europe they love their non-existent Jews.

[tgs]

I think in places like Spain, where they cleansed their Jews, they love to hate. Unfortunately the Jews are still non-existent and especially in Spain.