I have a strong sense that many of my pro-Palestinian friends use lots of arguments to be anti-Israel, but in reality they just don't think Israel has the right to exist. I wonder if these people would feel the same way if the Arab countries had accepted the 1947 borders and not attacked Israel.
But things like this continue to appall me. A Belgian crisis-line worker denies that Israel exists:
At least two Israelis were injured in the terror attacks in Brussels. Israel would like to fly them home and so in order to release them from the hospital, a Jewish volunteer called up the Crisis Center set up by the Ministry for Internal Affairs to ask about the procedure.
He was told that the Israeli victims could not be sent back to Israel, they can only be sent back to Palestine....JTA adds:
Michael Freilich, the editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel, said it “defies imagination” that a Belgian state employee would display the anti-Israel behavior that is commonplace in Arab countries. He also called for punishing the operator instead of issuing the “standard apology.”
The recording’s release follows at least four recorded cases in which people who either spoke Arabic or wore Muslim traditional garb, destroyed, concealed or removed Israeli flags at an impromptu memorial space set up for the attacks’victims at Place de la Bourse in Brussels. It features many flags, including of Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority.UPDATE: The Crisis Center apologized and says it fired the employee.