A group of “Arab youths” opened fire on Israelis working at a mall in Odenza, Denmark today. The Dutch Foreign Ministry believes that the attack is a retaliation for Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza. Luckily, the wounds to the mall workers don’t appear to be life threatening.
Denmark, of course, has more problems than a retaliation by Arabs for a military operation in Gaza. As Ed Morrissey notes:
That might have been the proximate motivation for the gunfire, but Danes should know better than to assume that it’s only about Gaza. The death threats against Danish newspaper editors weren’t just about a few editorial cartoons. It’s about cultural terrorism, the advancement of Arab and Muslim interests through intimidation and attack.
Mere Rhetoric, an excellent source for such news, points to the fact that anti-Semitism is nothing new in the country. Popular protest chants include, “Jews are Allah’s enemies”. Here’s a video from one such protest outside of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen:
Israel will get slammed by much of the international community for defending itself from a constant barrage of rocket attacks by a recognized terror groups. Let’s see how many United Nations bureaucrats spend any amount of time on the story of Arabs opening fire on innocent Israelis in a Denmark shopping mall.
by Stephan Tawney on Wed, Dec 31, 2008