All Israeli embassies and consulates closed worldwide first time

[edgitarra]

While surfing for news, I found this one:
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_23/All-Israeli-embassies-and-consulates-closed-worldwide-first-time-FM-stops-its-work-due-to-strikes-trade-union-4406/

All diplomatic missions of Israel, including embassies, consulates and missions to international organizations, as well as the Foreign Ministry itself in Jerusalem, have stopped their work today due to the increase in strike sanctions, the Foreign Ministry trade union representative Yaakov Livne said.

"The sanctions have today been transformed into an all-out strike for the first time in the history of Israel," Livne explained.

Israeli diplomats have been asking the government and the Ministry of Finance to raise their wages for several years now with zero result.

One of the union leaders Yair Frommer accused the Ministry of Finance of "declaring war on diplomatic employees who are struggling day after day, hour after hour, for the future of Israel."

Commenting on the shutdown of the diplomatic missions, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman pointed out that this decision made by the union "leads to a complete loss of control." He particularly emphasized that during the strike of the FM workers he will personally work to "minimize the damage to the citizens of the country" from the labor conflict it the Foreign Ministry.

Voice of Russia, TASS

Apparently this article is found only on few websites, I do not know if it is valid news. Otherwise it could raise some questions.

EDIT:
There is also a link on Russia Today to read about it:
http://rt.com/news/israel-diplomats-indefinite-strike-717/

 

[Keit]

Apparently this article is found only on few websites, I do not know if it is valid news. Otherwise it could raise some questions.

EDIT:
There is also a link on Russia Today to read about it:
http://rt.com/news/israel-diplomats-indefinite-strike-717/

Yeah, it's valid, all right. Here it is on Ynet as well.
_http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4502415,00.html

Also, not sure why they call it "the first time in Israel's history", since only this last summer they also had a general strike and no one could get visas or new passports. Someone here wanted to go to Israel on a holiday back then, and in the end went to another location, since the embassy didn't even answer the phones. Maybe this time it's a total shutdown, and that's unprecedented.

 

[Rabelais]

I saw this earlier today. It raised my eyebrow. Reuters carried it.

_http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/23/us-israel-diplomacy-idUSBREA2M0ER20140323

 

[Rabelais]

An interesting development.

The UN will vote on a resolution calling for a business boycott of West Bank settlements later this week. However, in light of the current diplomatic strike in Israel, it looks like no Israeli representatives will be at the forum to defend their position.

_http://rt.com/news/un-vote-boycott-israel-853/

 

[happyliza]

I get the feeling this is yet another 'tactic' of theirs. What no-one at home? You have to wonder what they have on the agenda this time. The strike may be genuine but yet they are also good at instigating one thing and making it look like something completely different as we know.

Why would they be wishing to curtail visits to and from Israel? Or disrupt business as usual?
I think we need to be very sceptical of any peculiarities from this country going by their history and the types of people that run it.

At the very least it could be another 'publicity' ploy / veil to something more sinister in the offing. We don't hear of other countries ever doing this other than last year when the US closed a few. And they are both in cahoots as we know. I feel America could have been connected with their Syria 'offensive' that luckily Putin manged to intervene in so it didn't gain the momentum they intended - again! And they obviously expected retaliation attacks on the embassies.

Well they know that WE know now who was behind Ukraine and the plane, so perhaps a similar damage limitation exercise? After all many didn't turn up to work on the day of 9/11.

Just got me a'thinking....

Edit: Spelling

 

[theos]

It's on SOTT: http://www.sott.net/article/276147-Striking-diplomats-force-Israel-to-close-embassies-all-over-the-world

Something fishy surrounding this for sure.

 

[Keit]

I get the feeling this is yet another 'tactic' of theirs. What no-one at home? You have to wonder what they have on the agenda this time. The strike may be genuine but yet they are also good at instigating one thing and making it look like something completely different as we know.

Yes, I am also not sure if this "closing borders" doesn't have some other motive behind it, especially since everyone who works for the foreign office goes through extensive security checks and such.

Don't know if you remember, but several years ago there were couple of cases of airports being closed down, and not sure if it was confirmed by C's, but SOTT's speculation was, that PTB needed to transfer something without anyone watching. But then, if it was something similar in this case, why close all the embassies at once? What can be transferred there or maybe erased? What would they want to hide? After all, Mossad doesn't even use Israeli passports for its games.

Another thing to consider is the growing discontent of Israeli people regarding the way their government runs things, especially when it comes to social issues, salaries, cost of living and such. The fact is, that prices for food and other commodities are very high in Israel. Higher than in EU, and the average salary is lower than in EU. There were mass demonstrations couple of years ago about it in Israel, so called "cottage cheese protests" that led to general mass protests about the cost of living and deteriorating health and education. _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Israeli_housing_protests

There were also similar protests of doctors and nurses, though they couldn't completely shut down everything, of course. But if I remember correctly, interns were on a quite a long strike, where they protested the 36 hours shifts.

Bottom line is, Israel begins to crack. That what happens when 50% of the population are psychopaths! So it could be the straw that broke the camel's back, or maybe there is indeed something sinister going on.

 

[l apprenti de forgeron]

Bottom line is, Israel begins to crack. That what happens when 50% of the population are psychopaths! So it could be the straw that broke the camel's back, or maybe there is indeed something sinister going on.

Every time I think on that 50% I feel shiver.
Yes, there may be something sinister in all this. Maybe you can relate this to the last phase of war against the Palestinians and the Syrians and Iran. Perhaps soon close definitely their embassies and forcibly returned to all the staff to stay within the walls of Israel?.
Israel also makes walls for others:
http://www.sott.net/article/275257-Apartheid-wall-in-Arizona-Israeli-company-contracted-to-build-US-Mexico-border-fence
This obviously serves to stop impoverished Mexican immigrants. But also for that Americans can't escape?
In any case, the walls produced between normal Americans and isrealíes a growing fear of the "outside" , to the others. And that is something that always need the psychos.
Must be crazy being locked up in a fortress with a psychopathic elite in continuous state of war. Masada is the ideal of these mutants?.

 

[maryjk_99]

Interesting that this prevents any Jews living in the Ukraine from immigrating to Israel at a time when anti-Jewish sentiment is increasing.

From the article on SOTT, the proposal from the Treasury was rejected on March 4th, right in the middle of all the chaos.

Here is a quote from this article from Global Research :

_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-and-the-politics-of-anti-semitism-west-upholds-neo-nazi-repression-of-ukraines-jewish-community/5370790

The US and the EU are supporting the formation of a coalition government integrated by Neo-Nazis which are directly involved in the repression of the Ukrainian Jewish community.

There are about 200,000 Jews living in Ukraine, most of them in Kiev. This community is described as “one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the world, with dozens of active Jewish organizations and institutions”. A significant part of this community is made up of family members of holocaust survivors.

...While the Western media has not covered the issue, the contemporary Neo-Nazi threat against the Jewish community in the Ukraine is real. Ukrainian Neo-Nazis pay tribute to Stepan Bandera, a World War II-era Nazi collaborator who led the pro-Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B). The contemporary Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party which is supported by Washington follows in the footsteps of the OUN-B.

... “Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman asked Kiev Jews to leave the city and, if possible, the country, due to fears that Jews might be targeted [by Svoboda Brown Shirts] in the ongoing chaos. … Some Jewish shops have been vandalized and other threats to the Jewish community have been received.

“I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too… I don’t want to tempt fate…but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions,” Rabbi Azman told Maariv. (JN, February 24, 2014)

The SOTT article indicated the strike could go on indefinitely.

So, exactly at the time when some Ukrainian Jews were intending to immigrate to Israel, all embassies worldwide are closed for the first time in history. I guess they should not be surprised.

 

[edgitarra]

Bottom line is, Israel begins to crack. That what happens when 50% of the population are psychopaths! So it could be the straw that broke the camel's back, or maybe there is indeed something sinister going on.

Every time I think on that 50% I feel shiver.
Yes, there may be something sinister in all this. Maybe you can relate this to the last phase of war against the Palestinians and the Syrians and Iran. Perhaps soon close definitely their embassies and forcibly returned to all the staff to stay within the walls of Israel?.
Israel also makes walls for others:
http://www.sott.net/article/275257-Apartheid-wall-in-Arizona-Israeli-company-contracted-to-build-US-Mexico-border-fence
This obviously serves to stop impoverished Mexican immigrants. But also for that Americans can't escape?
In any case, the walls produced between normal Americans and isrealíes a growing fear of the "outside" , to the others. And that is something that always need the psychos.
Must be crazy being locked up in a fortress with a psychopathic elite in continuous state of war. Masada is the ideal of these mutants?.

This starts to sound like the scene from the movie World War Z, with the Jews having built walls in Jerusalem. It is indeed very suspicious, and it is hard for me to dig in the "strike" excuse.

 

[Palinurus]

Interesting that this prevents any Jews living in the Ukraine from immigrating to Israel at a time when anti-Jewish sentiment is increasing.

From the article on SOTT, the proposal from the Treasury was rejected on March 4th, right in the middle of all the chaos.

Here is a quote from this article from Global Research :

_http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-and-the-politics-of-anti-semitism-west-upholds-neo-nazi-repression-of-ukraines-jewish-community/5370790

The US and the EU are supporting the formation of a coalition government integrated by Neo-Nazis which are directly involved in the repression of the Ukrainian Jewish community.

There are about 200,000 Jews living in Ukraine, most of them in Kiev. This community is described as “one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the world, with dozens of active Jewish organizations and institutions”. A significant part of this community is made up of family members of holocaust survivors.

...While the Western media has not covered the issue, the contemporary Neo-Nazi threat against the Jewish community in the Ukraine is real. Ukrainian Neo-Nazis pay tribute to Stepan Bandera, a World War II-era Nazi collaborator who led the pro-Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B). The contemporary Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party which is supported by Washington follows in the footsteps of the OUN-B.

... “Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman asked Kiev Jews to leave the city and, if possible, the country, due to fears that Jews might be targeted [by Svoboda Brown Shirts] in the ongoing chaos. … Some Jewish shops have been vandalized and other threats to the Jewish community have been received.

“I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too… I don’t want to tempt fate…but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions,” Rabbi Azman told Maariv. (JN, February 24, 2014)

The SOTT article indicated the strike could go on indefinitely.

So, exactly at the time when some Ukrainian Jews were intending to immigrate to Israel, all embassies worldwide are closed for the first time in history. I guess they should not be surprised.

Hi maryjk_99,

We'll have to wait and see what actually happens of course, but it may be of some comfort to know that other nations who also have embassies over there --or anywhere for that matter-- would be able to double up for the closed Israeli ones, especially in emergency situations when the need is high. They could do so on request from Israel or on their own account, notably when in their home country public pressure would've been applied to give assistance for humanitarian reasons or whatever. There have been precedents this way many times over in the past in all types of situations. So not all has to be seen as doomy and gloomy...