Italian suspended for anti-Israel words

Italian suspended for anti-Israel words
Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:14PM
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People protest outside the Italian Parliament against the Israeli attack on a 
Gaza-bound aid convoy in May.
The mayor of the Italian capital has suspended an employee of a municipal 
transportation company for allegedly publishing anti-Israeli statements on 
social networking websites.

Francesco Bianco, the employee of a bus company in Italy, was suspended for 
publishing statements against Israel and Riccardo Pacifici, the president of 
Rome's Jewish community, IRNA reported on Wednesday. 

Despite growing anti-Israeli sentiments across Europe, the Italian government is 
trying to adopt a strategy to prevent such moves across the country. 

Conducting similar surveys in European countries, German pollster and strategist 
Stanley Greenberg said the data collected reflects the worst time for Israel 
with regard to German public opinion since 2008. 

In the German study, 50 percent of the respondents said they had "very cold" or 
unfavorable feelings toward Israel, compared with 39 percent who said they 
experienced "cold" or "very cold" feelings toward Palestinians. 

In Sweden, the situation was similar to that in Germany, with 49 percent saying 
their feelings toward Israel were cold or very cold. 

In France, those sympathizing with Israel did not go beyond 24 percent and the 
number, though narrowly, was outweighed by 31 percent who said that felt cold or 
very cold feelings toward Tel Aviv. 

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Nick
12/31/2010 12:06:38 AM
Congratulations to the Protesters in Italy !!! They and anybody else who has an 
IQ higher than their waist size knows what evil the zionist jews have done to so 
many countries esp. ( Palestine ) who they have ravaged, robbed and murdered.
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Paolo
12/30/2010 1:52:29 PM
Hypocrisy - European nations do not want Jews back, is why they strongly support 
Israel. Germans not forgotten Jewish control in 1930s, immorality, destroy 
culture and eventually the country itself. Like British, who expelled Jews in 
past, prefer all Jews immigrate to Israel, at expense of Palestinians.Like 
pro-israel Evangelical USA protestants, who really just want to rid USA of Jews. 
Preachers like Jerry Falwell are the real bigots.