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 PRIME
MINISTER OF SPAIN. Although many
experts had foretold of the imminent disappearing of European Jews,
nobody expected such a virulent explosion of anti-Semitism in Spain, not
even under a Leftist government. The first signal came on
Monday, 5 December, when during a dinner with the Benarroch family,
Zapatero and wife began claiming what Vidal Quadras, member of the
European Parliament, described on the radio as "a tirade of anti-Zionism
and anti-Semitism". By the moment the Benarroch couple had left
the table to express their regrets, Zapatero was explaining his lack of
surprise about the Holocaust: according to the people present, Zapatero
claimed to understand the Nazis. The recent clashes with Hizbullah,
however, have promoted the longest and hardest diatribes against Israel,
forcing Zapatero to loose a cover for what it was long known in Spanish
politics: His hate towards Israel, Jews and Zionism. In the third day of
such rants, before a gathering of the Socialist Youth Movement and a day
before a demonstration against Israel, Zapatero showed at last his true
colours: At the closing of the meeting he let the teenagers take
pictures of him wearing a Palestinian kaffiyah. |
