Avigdor Lieberman: “They were killed just because they were Jews”

“Yesterday, when I was walking in a column of demonstrators along Voltaire’s boulevard in Paris, I saw inscriptions on the walls of houses:“ 17 people were killed. 65 million injured. " According to the French police, more than one and a half million people took part in the Republican march.she is a man It seemed that the whole of France was taking to the streets. Among the seventeen dead, four were killed only because they were Jews. Only because they were Jews and went to a kosher supermarket to buy food for Shabbat,” Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wrote on his Facebook page on January 12.

On the eve of the “Republican march” or “March of millions”, as the campaign of solidarity in memory of the victims of terrorist attacks was called by the French media, at the end of Saturday, January 10, the Israeli Foreign Minister held an operational meeting at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

The meeting was attended by heads of departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representatives of security services and employees of the Israeli embassy in Paris - via satellite communications.

“Assessing the situation, it is necessary to note two problems that cause us particular concern. First: the terrorist attack in a kosher supermarket in Paris was carried out after France had raised its combat readiness to the highest level. Second: this is the third terrorist attack in recent times that has targeted European Jews, in particular French Jews. The first terrorist attack was committed in Toulouse, the second at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, and now at a Paris supermarket,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Channel 2 ITV, summing up the meeting at the Foreign Ministry’s operational headquarters. “Unfortunately, Europe has not yet realized that the fighters returning home from Syria and Iraq continue to maintain links with the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda and pose a real threat to Europe.”

The meeting also discussed measures to ensure the security of foreign diplomatic missions of Israel around the world, and especially in European countries.

On the morning of January 11, Avigdor Lieberman flew to Paris. “It so happened that on this Sunday the annual Aliyah Fair opens in Paris, which is held by the Ministry of Absorption together with the Sokhnut,” the head of the Foreign Ministry told reporters. “I promised to attend this event, so my visit to the French capital was planned long before the terrible terrorist attacks.”

At the Aliyah Fair, potential repatriates receive all the necessary information about repatriation programs and absorption conditions in Israel.

Recall that in France there are about 600 thousands of Jews. It is the largest Jewish community in Europe and the third largest in the world.

“I believe that speedy repatriation is the best solution for all French Jews who want to ensure a secure future for themselves and their children,” said Avigdor Lieberman, founder and permanent chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu (Our Home Israel) party, addressing visitors to the Fair aliyah." “We want to see all our Jewish brothers in Israel as soon as possible, regardless of the various events that occur in certain countries. This was the policy of the Zionist leadership before the creation of the Jewish state and after its creation. It should remain that way now.”

Avigdor Lieberman visited the site of the terrorist attack in the Hyper Casher supermarket in Port de Vincent, Paris, and marched along with the leaders of many states through the streets of Paris in the column of the Republican March.

“The world must unite in the fight against terror. Only together we can cope with this plague of the 21st century,” Lieberman has not tired of repeating for many years.

Early on Tuesday morning, January 13, the bodies of those killed at the hands of the terrorist who took hostages in the Hyper Kacher supermarket were taken to Israel.

At the request of relatives, Yoan Cohen, Yoav Hatab, Philip Braam and François-Michel Saad were buried in Jerusalem at the Givat Shaul cemetery.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the funeral ceremony. France was represented by the Minister of Ecology and Energy, Ségolène Royal.

Tens of thousands of Israelis came to Jerusalem to take the last journey of the French Jews who were killed just because they were Jews.

Observers noted that many participants of the Republican March of 11 in January carried signs with the inscription: Je suis Charlie (I am Charly) *, but there was not a single inscription: Je suis Juif (I am a Jew).

In Jerusalem, at the funeral of the victims of the terrorist attack there were a lot of plates with such inscriptions.

* Charlie Hebdo - the name of the satirical weekly, the editorial office of which was the terrorist attack of January 7.