A group of ten to 15 protesters, mostly wearing masks, gathered outside the Icelandic Foreign Ministry on Friday afternoon and pelted the building with balloons filled with red paint.
The protesters aim was to turn the building red in protest at Iceland’s continued political relations with Israel. According to a statement from the group, Iceland should immediately halt diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv in protest at the bloodshed currently taking place in the Gaza Strip.
Police surrounded the building quickly, but the protesters disbursed peacefully and nobody was arrested.
Reykjavik also participated in yesterday’s Europe-wide series of protests against the current Israeli operation in Gaza.
(Photo: MBL.is/Júlíus)
“Police surrounded the building quickly, but the protesters disbursed peacefully and nobody was arrested.”
There is a difference between demonstration and vandalism. Throwing red paint on the wall of a taxpayer-financed building is vandalism. In most countries people would be arrested and fined for that.
Sad to see also Iceland is infested with the Antifa/jihadist crowd.
Thank God Iceland supports Israel. Hopefully it will continue. In the meantime, maybe the protesters will check they’re history and read up on the Six Day War.
I agree with the above comments. Israel has the right to defend herself… and the protestors throwing red paint should be jailed for vandalism.
Anyone vandalizing an Icelandic buildings should be arrested and if they are not citizens then deported
Martel ”
In most countries people would be arrested and fined for that.”
or shot ?
S1w “Thank God Iceland supports Israel”
where did uou see that ?
no one here supports Israel
michael hannes “I agree with the above comments. Israel has the right to defend herself”
Defence is not the correct word to describe what Israel is doing.
Like Gus has said so many times every one is born with the right to be respected as a human beeing
i dont see Israel giving any one any respect at all
not the Palistinians, not the UN,not the geneva convention, they use weapons that have been banned, like cluster bombs and bombs that contain cancer inducing chemicals, over 300 children killed so far, if you where a police officer and followed a suspect into a playground full of children, would you still open fire ?
if you did you should be the one going to jail,
in short, this is not war, its a extermination and after this no one from Israel can ever talk about Nazis again.
Bull Axel. If Israel wanted to “exterminate” the Palestinians, they’d do a better job than a thousand or so dead. It’s one thing for Hamas to play the over-exaggeration game, but quite another for you to.
I’m not sure how you can equate 6m deaths with 1k, especially as you no doubt believe in proportiality when it comes to Israel’s response.
As to your example, you neglect to mention that the playground is also full of the children’s parents, that those parents elected that perpetrator (not suspect as Hamas proudly admit to launching the rockets) and that the perpetrator has repeatedly over a number of years shot out of that playground at the one in which the cop’s children are.
AXEL, NO ONE HERE SUPPORTS ISRAEL? MAYBE NOT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS.
GET OVER IT AND LEARN SOME HISTORY. REALLY, YOU ARE NOT TOTALLY INFORMED. YOU SEEM TO HAVE WATCH LOTS OF TV LATELY WITHOUT REALLY FILTERING AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY BEHIND ALL WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE. REALLY AXEL, I THOUGH YOU COULD DO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.
ISRAEL-PALESTINEAN CONFLICT IS NOT ONLY A CONFLICT FOR THE LAND. IT IS A CONFLICT OF VALUES.
IN ONES SIDE YOU HAVE A DEMOCRATIC NATION AND AT THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAVE ISLAMIC EXTREMISM. NOT EVEN THE ARABS WANT THEM… ASK THE ARAB EMIRATES WHAT THEY THINK OF HAMAS OR IRAN…
THE ARAB WORLD IS TIRED OF NONSENSE, IGNORANCE, EXTREMISM ETC… REALLY TIRED.. LOOK WHAT QUEEN RAINA OF JORDAN SAYS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb9275XZNE&feature=channel
NOT EVEN THE ARABS SUPPORT HAMAS. INNOCENT PEOPLE IS DYING. THIS IS A CRISIS, ISRAEL SHOULD NOT BOMB, BUT AS LONG AS HAMAS KEEPS BOMBING AS WELL, THERE IS NOT EXIT TO THIS TRAGEDY. ISRAEL HAS ALREADY SAID THAT THEY ARE AWARE OF THE HUMAN TRAGEDY, BUT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LET HAMAS BOMB ISRAEL INNOCENT PEOPLE WHILE THEY JUST WATCH IT… NOT ANYMORE
WHY CANNOT CIVIL POPULATION OF GAZA MOVE OUT? WHY ARE THEY TRAPPED? ISN´T BECAUSE EGYPT HAS CLOSE ITS BORDERS TO PALESTINA? AND WHY HAS EGYPT, A MUSLIM COUNTRY, CLOSE ITS DOOR TO THE PALESTINIANS? ISN´T IT BECAUSE OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND HAMAS??
IF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS SO WORRIED WHY HAVENT ANY COUNTRIES LIKE LIBANON OR OTHER MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES SEND BOATS TO EVACUATE PALESTINIANS IF EGYPT DO NOT ALLOW THEM AS REFUGEES…
NO MY FRIEND, IT IS NOT ISRAEL TO BLAME FOR CIVILIANS DYING, IT IS EVERYONE, AND MAINLY HAMAS…
GET OVER FICTION INTO REALITY…
GET OVER IT AXEL …
Gus for Prime Minister!!!