For any Westerner, being praised by Hamas is a commentary on the recipient. It is the Palestinians who aim to wipe the State of Israel off the map, and have even shown maps with Israel absent. The choice of words of Belgium’s Minister for International Development, Caroline Gennez, was crude, provocative and ignorant of history, and particularly of the guiding charters governing the principal Palestinian political groups, all of which include the aim to obliterate Israel from the River to the Sea.
Hamas didn’t stop at praising useful idiot Gennez either; see Basem Naim’s remarks below about Israel’s reaction.
“War is deceit.” (Bukhari 52:269)
“Hamas praises Belgian minister over Israeli demolitions censure,” Iran’s state-controlled Press TV, September 3, 2023:
The Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement has lauded a Belgian minister for censuring Israel over completely “wiping [Palestinian villages] off the map” across the occupied territories.
The statement came on Saturday after Belgium’s Minister for International Development, Caroline Gennez, said Palestinian communities are being obliterated by the regime in an interview with the Flemish daily De Morgen.
“In the occupied Palestinian territories, for example, the situation is becoming unsustainable. Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis. The periods of escalating violence are shorter than before, but more frequent and more intense,” Gennez said.
In response, Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig Abu, called the accusations “false and slanderous.”
Rosenzweig Abu also sent a protest letter to the Belgian Foreign Ministry and to Gennez over the comments.
The Belgian ambassador to Israel, Jean-Luc Bodson, was also summoned for reprimand.
Bodson “was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for reprimand and required to provide explanations,” Rosenzweig Abu wrote in a post published on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said that Israel’s “angry” reaction to Gennez’s remarks is rooted in its fear that “decades-long myths could be debunked.”
“Guinez’s [sic] remarks are completely consistent with the facts on the ground, which have been corroborated by several international reports,” Naim added.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe Nigel Farage was right: this POS is not a real country. Maybe Flanders should be ceded to the Netherlands, Walloonia to France & let Brussels simply be the hq of the EU and NATO
VictorMc says
Typical of ‘European’ politicians and leaders they know NOTHING.
PS: ‘belgium’ is a non-country.
OLD GUY says
One word describes her: “IDIOT”