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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Indeed, the centuries-old territorial dispute over the sovereignty of
Gibraltar has been stirred once again.
When the Queen visited in May during the second year of her reign it caused
such outrage on the Spanish side that Gen Francisco Franco blockaded the
border isolating the territory for the next 18 years in punishment.
Such a drastic measure has been avoided on this latest of royal visits but
diplomatic tensions have deepened in the run up to the Royal tour, part of
the official celebrations to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year.
Last month Spain’s Queen Sofia was forced by her nation’s government to turn
down an invitation to a celebratory lunch hosted by the Queen at Windsor
Palace for sovereign monarchs across the globe in protest over the Earl’s
visit to Gibraltar.
Spain’s foreign ministry also issued a formal complaint in May to Giles
Paxman, Britain’s ambassador to Madrid, in which the government of Mariano
Rajoy expressed “upset and concern” over the proposed visit.
Last Friday, Jose Garcia-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister reiterated that
sentiment stating that it was a “most inopportune moment” for
Britain to send its Royals to the Rock.
In recent weeks, an ongoing dispute over fishing rights in the waters
surrounding the territory has led to stand-offs between Spanish Civil Guard
vessels accompanying fishermen in the area and Gibraltar police patrols
enforcing a ban.
Spain has retaliated by slowing traffic crossing the border causing tail-backs
and delays of up to three hours.
“It’s a regular bullying tactic used by the Spanish to punish us whenever
they feel like it,” said Gerry Sol Matthews, 47 as she stood in the
crowds with her mother and daughter.
The developments mark a change in diplomatic relations over Gibraltar since
the Popular Party took power in December and abandoned a tripartite
agreement to strengthen working relations.
Gibraltar was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 but Spain
still claims sovereignty.
Britain and Spain once looked at sharing sovereignty of the Rock, home to
28,000 people, on its 2.6 square miles. But in 2002, 99 per cent of them
voted against the move, demanding to remain part of Britain.
And as the Duke and Countess of Wessex toured the peninsula there was no doubt
over where the loyalties of Gibraltarians lie.
The Countess of Wessex greets the crowd (DM PARODY)
“Gibraltar values its Britishness above all else,” Gibraltar’s Chief
Minister Fabian Picardo, who came to office for the Socialist Liberal Party
in December, told the Daily Telegraph. “And in Her Majesty’s Jubilee
Year we are delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess of Wessex as her
representatives to demonstrate our loyalty and affection for the British
crown and as guarantors of our constitution and our Britishness.”
The people of Gibraltar, he said, would not allow complaints from Spain to
dampen their spirits.
“Complaints by the Spanish are so often heard that they really are of no
relevance or consequence to the people of Gibraltar.”
“They are the institutional rumblings of the diplomatic system and while
they serve to whip things up I don’t think that ordinary people of Spain are
the least bit concerned with what is happening here. They are more worried
about the realities of Spain.”
Back on Main Street, beneath row upon row of red, white and blue bunting
fluttering in the breeze, a little girl in a princess outfit couldn’t
contain her excitement as the Royal party approached. “I’m about to see
a real live British Prince,” Gabriella, aged 4, gasped.
Although admittedly the encounter left her a little underwhelmed. “Was
that him?” she asked her mother after Prince Edward swept past. “He
wasn’t even wearing a crown.”
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