“Netanyahu has become Greece’s lobbyist to the European Union,” an Israeli diplomat said.
Some of my FCO sources tell me that the Israeli government has now been supplying the Greek government with emergency supplies of tear gas and other unspecified “anti-riot equipment”, as the Greek government ran out
@ NY Greek Consulate told JVP supporter “It’s your government [US] that ordered us not to let the ship sail!”
The Greek crowds demonstrating before Parliament in Syntagma Square are providing their counterpart to “Arab spring.” But what really can they do, short of violence – as long as the police and military side with the government that itself is siding with foreign creditors?
“As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to (U.S. embassy economic officers) on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge,” one of the cables read.
the financial class sees as the proper and apparently only role of government. DELIVER ON AUSTERITY. That is what your government is for. Welcome to your future.
See, we really are all in this together…
