Spot on Daphne.

Simone Zammit Endrich was prosecuted inciting racial hatred against Arabs. Her bile was perfectly consistent with the hateful nature of Zionism – supremacist, indifferent to even the basic human rights of non Jews. Fortunately she showed the decency to fade into miserable obscurity after her legal debacle.

The Israelis may have created wealth out of the desert – at the expense of millions of dispossessed Palestinians – with the help of the $3 billion dollars a year the Americans pour into their economy. Given the trend to boycott Israel across Europe, Malta could do worse than to distance themselves from this incredibly dangerous little nation……

http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/israel-europe_ties_showing_strains/11887

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/04/26/karl.html

@Sybil – The Mufti of Jerusalem did indeed have a relationship with the Nazis.

So did a whole slew of religious and political leaders across Europe and the world. The point being ?

The fact is, the relationship in question has been manipulated by Israel and its supporters as a pretext for their persecution of the Palestinians. But the relationship between the Mufti and the Nazis was replicated across Europe, it does not prove anything we do not know already.

[Daphne – I had no idea he’s Jewish. I thought he was called Abraham in the same way other people I knew were called Moses etc.]

[Daphne – There are Jews in Malta’s diplomatic corps? Or have they trawled through Malta’s minuscule Jewish community and picked out a political appointee on the basis of religion? And you mean they haven’t found a Maltese Muslim for Ramallah? It gets worse and worse. Commonsense says send Christians to both places and don’t get involved, or even better send non-believers on the basis that they speak the languages, are trained diplomats and known what they’re doing.]

I am relieved that this topic is finally on the agenda. I always wondered why Malta has always ignored Israel. I remember a columnist, Simone Zammit Endrich, who was taken to court for stating the obvious facts on the Palestinians. She also tried to compare them to the Israelis.

[Daphne – I’m not keen on the ‘Israelis are better than Palestinians’ argument. That’s not the point here. The point is that Malta is not involved and shouldn’t behave as though it is involved. If one Maltese government after another continues to mouth off in this way, then we will have to wake up to the possibility that it’s a question of, rather than ‘cherchez la femme’, looking for the money and which politician/s may be linked to that money. It’s not by coincidence that Mrs Arafat is living in Malta.]

It is surely of concern that Arafat and Co. cynically robbed their “brothers” of their money, and milked the aid pouring in, so that little now remains. The CIA thinks that Arafat was worth six billion US dollars. With that kind of money you could build a bevy of schools, hospitals and have enough left over to build a decent airport and power station. Instead, Arafat’s wife and, I have no doubt, some others, are on the gravy train, leaving the PA with egg on their faces every time they are asked about it. The PA said it did a deal with Suha, and I wonder how many skeletons there are in that particular closet. I mean, the PA still has some military prowess, and it could at least try and get its money back.

I suspect the same thing is happening in Gaza. The leaders of Hamas are probably milking the Palestinians in the same way.The Palestinain cause has always been a cash cow, to be milked by those with the strongest pair of hands. The Palestinians were ever thus, trusting their strongest leaders with everything they have, even if that strength manifested itself also in amassing lucre by whatever means.

In the meantime, Malta eschews all that is Jewish and Israeli, and even from a economic point of view, loses access to Jewish-backed businesses investing here. I think it’s still a hang-up from our Catholoc formative years, when we were taught that the “lhud” were responsible for killing Christ. That it was meant to happen that way does not enter into our minds. The Jews are not dirty because of it. When will we ever learn? I have had the Jewish community sigh in dismay here in Malta because no one in Government is interested in their side of the story whenever there is a conflict.They are gentle about it, but it hurts them. Kemm ha ndumu injoranti?