When I boarded a train to Vienna the other day, at some point early on in the journey, a slew of armed police officers had started moving through my wagon. They conducted passport and ID checks, but rather selectively. They behaved casually, after all, they are trained to do so, but 8-10 officers don’t appear on a train for no reason.
Just a little earlier, Hamas called for a “Day of Rage” to take place on the Friday—the day of my train ride. Tens of thousands of Muslims took up the call and demonstrated Friday across the Middle East. But not just the Middle East, today, as I write this, a pro-Palestine rally is supposed to take place in Vienna. And in London, there's been a hotbed of them. Across much of Europe, in fact. And the U.S.
So, I think, the police presence might have had something to do with that.
You’d think that these protesters would condemn the sheer terror that was unleashed on Israel and express their concern over the fate of the peaceful Palestinians who are stuck in…
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