OpinioNet Contributed Commentary

Date - October 20, 2001
Author - Steven Plaut

Toasted Danish Anyone?
(and related stories)

  1. Denmark is rarely worth discussing in ANY context, but lately Denmark has been awash in a wave of Israel bashing. Anti-Jewish demonstrations abound, composed of the usual leftist Eurotrash and Moslem immigrants. The Danes led a jihad against the appointment of ex-spook Carmi Gillon as Israeli Ambassador to Denmark, threatening him with prosecution. (No not for misusing the intelligence services to harass the Israeli Right but rather for daring to occasionally arrest Arab terrorists.) And now the Danish Foreign Minister has come up with a new bon mot: JERUSALEM (October 19) - Danish Foreign Minister Mogens Lykketoft infuriated Israeli diplomatic officials following tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi’s assassination, when he said on a Danish television program Wednesday night that there is no difference between the assassination and Israel’s targeted killing of terrorists.

    "Political murder in that area is not anything new," Lykketoft said. Victor Harel, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director-general for Europe, said the ministry was "shocked" by Lykketoft’s comments.

    One is tempted to respond by saying that we see no difference between the Danish Foreign Minister and a bucket of manure.

    SO let us be clear. The Dane official position is that when Israel assassinates a Palestinian terrorist who has perpetrated mass murders of children, this is exactly the moral equivalence of Palestinian fascist terrorists murdering the elected cabinet minister in a democratic country.

  2. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=587&PHPSESSID=1f7825ab341f3047034b331c58b7f345

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