I am very sorry for Greece, but your country was a big problem for years

Submitted by JJ (United States), Jun 24, 2007 at 19:30

For many years Greece did not cooperate in fighting terrorism. The 1976 hijackers of the Air France flight to Entebbe boarded with their weapons at Athens. In fact in the old days, Israeli citizens whose plane landed in Greece to refuel were not even allowed to leave the airplane! Mr. Theodorakis and Mr. Papandreou used to say the most awful anti-Israel and anti-Semitic (as well as anti-American) nonsense. Now relations have improved. I am glad you have now awakened to the danger, and I welcome you as allies, but please do not blame the USA. You have brought this on yourselves.

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