Police officials in the village of Terni have arrested a local grocery store owner for “slandering a foreign state” after he placed a sign outside his shop saying “Zionists are not welcome here — we are for the Palestinians.”
The incident which incited the store owner to place the sign, occurred after Israeli tourists from the nearby village of Piediluco, where six Israeli athletes are participating in the International Canoeing Championship, ventured into the shop to purchase several bottles of mineral water.
In the store they confronted the owner who was reading a newspaper with an anti-Israel slant on the situation in Beirut. The Israelis defended the Lebanon action saying “We are fighting a war of defense, not aggression.” After the Israelis purchased their water and departed, the store owner said he “discovered” that two liquor bottles were missing and he was sure it was the Israelis who had taken the bottles.
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