KernowDamo: An ill thought through attempt to win back some sympathy for Israel got given VERY short shrift as Athens mayor exploded!
Right, so as news once again broke on Sunday of dozens more Palestinians becoming victims of Israel’s genocidal actions—many while queuing for humanitarian aid—Israel’s ambassador to Greece, Noam Katz, took to the press to express a deep diplomatic grievance. His complaint was not about the actions of his state against the people who’s land they illegitimately occupy, nor about the use of starvation as a weapon of war, nor about the siege imposed by his own government. It was about graffiti. Specifically, Katz was condemning anti-Zionist slogans graffitied on a wall in Athens—graffiti that had actually already been removed by city authorities. For Katz, the real outrage wasn’t in Rafah’s refugee camps or in the b*mbed ruins of Gaza City. It was in a can of spray paint in the Greek capital, the work of which was already gone. Manufactured outrage 101.
However, the mayor of Athens, in stark contrast to the Greek national government, Haris Doukas, wasn’t having a bar of this.He turned around and gave Noam Katz the treatement by saying: “We will not take lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians.” Where national governments have cloaked genocide in euphemism and equivocation, out of moral cowardice and treating Israel as different, as Zionists wish things to be, Doukas spoke with unapologetic clarity in a manner Israel still can’t get used to and their response is what has driven this story to go somewhat viral.
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