Comment: Because bringing your sectarian conflicts into other peoples countries is what multiculturalism is all about. Trump moves an embassy, so some peon in Amsterdaam has to attack a shopkeeper?
The video of the incident which emerged on local media, shows the man carrying a Palestinian flag hitting windows of the Glatt Kosher restaurant. The man then kicks his way through the front door and a few seconds later emerges with an Israeli flag, the footage shows.
Officers deployed pepper spray to arrest the suspect, who turned out to be a 29-year-old male residing in the Netherlands.
The incident took place in the Dutch capital on Wednesday morning, police confirmed, without providing any details about the suspect's nationality. An "aggressive" man hit windows of a restaurant with a piece of wood, police said in a statement.
The man shouted "Palestine" and "Allahu Akbar" while smashing the restaurant's windows, Amsterdam-based AT5 channel reported, citing a local witness. "I've never seen something like this before. Everyone is terrified," the restaurant owner's son told AT5, adding that the incident took place an hour before the restaurant's opening.
The incident took place amid worldwide tensions over Washington's Wednesday decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Dutch police, however, didn't link the Amsterdam incident to the recent tensions.
Comment: We are likely to see a lot more of this from those who are rightly outraged by Trump's recent decision. But the real danger here is not only the likelihood (if predictable) carnage that the IDF will wreak on Palestinians lashing out in Gaza or the West Bank - but the conflation between those Palestinians acts and terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, who are already coming out and making statements in support of Palestine. This whole situation can turn into another bloodbath against innocents in no time - when half the world will be told to think that Palestinians are the same as "the terrorists."
See: The Myth Of The Palestinian Suicide Bomber