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Swedish Prime Minister candidate sacrifices Swedish Jews’ security for Muslim votes

2010-03-12T11:56:00.000+01:00

This is a translation and adaptation of an article that University of Malmö student Peter Rubinstein originally published in Swedish on Newsmill.
He writes from his first-hand perspective of the situation in Malmö, the rise of Muslim anti-Semitism in the city and the unwillingness of the political establishment to deal with the issue.

In recent weeks, discussions about Malmö’s left-wing mayor Ilmar Reepalu and his controversial statements about Jews and Israel have caused anti-Semitic sentiment in the nation’s third-largest city to bubble to the surface. His extremist views, widely regarded as racist, are one part of the problem. Another, perhaps more important, aspect is that large sections of Sweden’s media and political establishment appear unwilling to acknowledge the nature of the problem.

Christian Democrat party leader Göran Hägglund (Minister for Health and Social Affairs in the governing centrist coalition) noted in a TV debate on March 7 that the rising tide of anti-Semitic threats in Malmö came from sections of the city’s Muslim population. That Hägglund mentioned Muslims by name may well have been an indiscreet slip of the tongue rather than a deliberate decision – he may have just injudiciously voiced what many Swedes feel but seldom put into words for reasons of political correctness. With one eye firmly fixed on the results of the latest pre-election polls, Social Democrat party leader Mona Sahlin, currently in opposition but according to various polls likely to win the national elections this September, calmly professed outrage and insisted that Hägglund apologise. Hägglund quickly changed the subject and avoided this issue during the rest of the debate, possibly because he too did not want to risk alienating the Muslim electorate.

Yet the recent spate of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Malmö is not attributed to a bunch of disaffected right-wing skinheads or uneducated yobs. Rather, it is a direct result of anti-Jewish feeling among sections of the city’s Muslim population. I know, because I live in Malmö and I am a Jew. I’ve experienced it at first hand and I know several of the victims of both physical attacks and verbal abuse. The perpetrators have one single factor in common: their roots in Muslim countries.

This is something that has to be recognised openly and debated in public if Sweden is to overcome this problem. Mona Sahlin and her party comrade Ilmar Reepalu refuse even to acknowledge the source of the problem. If Sweden does not recognise and label its substantial undercurrent of Muslim anti-Semitism, it stands no chance of overcoming it.

It is a matter of shielding elementary democratic values: if the powers that be feel it is important for Jews continue to live in Malmö instead of fleeing the city, as they are at present, then it is necessary to bring about a change of attitude among Malmö’s Muslim population. Sweden is by no means unique in hosting a large Muslim population with openly expressed antipathy towards Jews. Mein Kampf is a best-seller in many Muslim countries, and the Arabic-language media are rife with raw anti-Jewish propaganda. This has been thoroughly documented worldwide, not least by news site Memri TV which translates news items from Arabic TV channels. Last year the Kristelig Dagblad newspaper in Denmark reported on a survey among Danish Muslims who revealed widespread anti-Jewish sentiment.

In Sweden cases of openly expressed anti-Semitism are on the rise. A couple of years ago there was the documented case of a Stockholm mosque selling audio tapes in which Jews were referred to as pigs and apes. There are clips on YouTube showing a large group of young Muslim men in Malmö last year shouting Arabic slogans inciting the massacre of Jews. There are film clips showing how a peaceful pro-Israeli manifestation on January 25 last year was smashed by a wild Islamist mob shouting “Hitler! Hitler”, “Death to the Jews” and “Death to the Zionists”.

As the pro-Israeli demonstrators, many of them survivors of the Holocaust, were forced to flee for their lives, Muslim youths pursued them to continue their attacks. One of my friends told me how some of these youngsters pointed to her father and shouted “There’s a Jew!” My friend’s father, who speaks fluent Arabic, replied “Yes, I’m a Jew. So what?” They replied: “We’re going to kill you, you Jew!” During this exchange, one of the gang members threw a glass bottle that hit my friend.

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, showing how widespread hatred of the Jews is among Sweden’s Muslim population – and how openly it is expressed in front of a remarkably silent media and political establishment, with some notable exceptions. It is strongly reminiscent of the open hatred with which Jews were regarded and treated in 1930s Germany.

For this very reason it is not at all surprising that the situation for us Jews in Malmö worsens steadily when political figures such as Social Democrats Sahlin and Reepalu ignore blatant Muslim anti-Semitism and try instead to portray the situation as some kind of general intolerance on the part of unidentified groups. The perpetrators are clearly identified. So too are their victims. Sahlin and Reepalu encourage anti-Semitism by refusing to openly state what everyone else sees and knows – the Muslim source of Sweden’s anti-Semitism.

Mona Sahlin expressed outrage when government minister Göran Hägglund did just that – clearly identified the source of Sweden’s anti-Semitism. Why? Is it because Sahlin remains totally ignorant of the situation despite the fact that she actually met with representatives of the Jewish community in Malmö? Because at that meeting, she must have been informed in no uncertain terms as to the precise source of Malmö’s anti-Semitism.

Or has Mona Sahlin simply made the same deliberate calculation as her party colleague, Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu, and decided not to offend the city’s and the nation’s Muslim population this election year? Sweden has about 18,000 Jews and about 400,000 Muslims. Whether Sahlin’s posture stems from cynical vote-catching or sheer ignorance is immaterial – either way the result is unworthy of someone who regards herself as a candidate for the highest office in this country.

My maternal and paternal grandparents were forced to flee the Nazis and lost their entire families in the Holocaust. In 1969 my parents fled Poland as a result of Polish anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism. Today history appears to be repeating itself and like many other Jews in Malmö and elsewhere in this country, I am being forced to consider fleeing Sweden because Jews are regarded as legitimate targets by Muslim anti-Semites disguised as anti-Zionists.

It is time for Sweden to confront its problem, or see an accelerating demographic change take place. Ultimately at risk is this country’s democratic self-esteem.

Peter Rubinstein
The original article in Swedish was published on Newsmill:

Links in English:
Sweden, Israel and the Jews
Anti-Zionist party formed in Sweden
Tundra Tabloids
Ilmar Reepalu - wrong in every language
The unholy trinity

Links in Swedish:
GP
Fred i Mellanöstern - Reepalu angriper Malmös judar
Fred i Mellanöstern - Ilmar Reepalu svävande om judeförföljelserna i Baltikum
IM - rödbrunt i Malmö
IM - Hopplös röd-grön Mellanösternpolitik
Jihad i Malmö - läs denna alltid lika intressanta blogg

Nyheter om Mellanöstern i Göteborgs Närradio

2010-03-08T17:09:00.001+01:00

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Tisdag 9 mars 2010 samtalar Oded Meiri med rabbin Alexander Namdar från Chabad-rörelsen om dess plats inom judendomen

Föreningen Fred i Mellanöstern (FiM) driver bloggen Fred i Mellanöstern samt även FiM Närradio.

Ankaras Erdogan och Malmös Reepalu: tvillingsjälar

2010-03-07T22:32:00.001+01:00

De talande orden.

“Det har aldrig hänt att judar har attackerats. Om judar vill lämna staden och flytta till Israel är det deras ensak och inget med Malmö att göra.”
Malmös socialdemokratiska kommunalråd Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, i en intervju med Sunday Telegraph

Hatbrott riktade mot judar i Malmö fördubblades jämfört med året innan och judar flyr staden.
Polisstatistik, Malmö.

“Det är omöjligt för en muslim att begå folkmord.”
Turkiets premiärminister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rapporterad i EuropeNews.

Erdogan har uppenbarligen aldrig hört talas om Darfur. Eller Bangladesh, där 3 miljoner östpakistanska muslimer slaktades av västpakistanska muslimer under självständighetskriget. Inte konstigt att han inte erkänner det muslimska Turkiets folkmord på armenier eller kurder heller - en muslim kan inte begå sådana brott just på grund av att han är muslim. Ett rasistiskt tankesätt så det förslår.

Här några mer balanserade, mindre rasistiska, åsikter. Artiklarna knyter samman teman Folkmord, Turkiet, Kurder och Armenier.

Tidningen The Times om Turkiets folkmord på armenier.

Turkiets aktioner riktade mot kurder.

Turkiets aktioner riktade mot armenier.

Turkiets behandling av en statsman från ett vänligt sinnat land. Här visas en bild föreställande juden Israels president Shimon Peres bugande inför den muslimska överhögheten i form av Erdogan.

Andra intressanta länkar:
Arutz Sheva
JPost
Vos iz Neias
Huffington Post
Debka
Ilya Meyer

Ankara’s Erdogan and Malmö’s Reepalu: twin souls

2010-03-07T22:11:00.001+01:00

Interesting words.

“There haven't been any attacks on Jewish people, and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo.”
Malmö Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, Social Democratic Party, in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph

Hate crimes against Jews (link in Swedish) in Malmö increased by 100 percent in the past year and Jews are fleeing the city.
Police statistics, Malmö.

“It’s not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide.”
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported in EuropeNews.

Here are the views of other observers with a more objective and less racist viewpoint. The following articles tie together the themes of Genocide, Turkey, Kurds and Armenians.

The Times on the Armenian genocide.

Turkey’s treatment of the Kurds.

Turkey’s treatment of the Armenians.

Turkey on how to treat statesmen from friendly countries. Here a picture of a Jew, Israel’s President Shimon Peres, manipulated to look as though he is bowing down to Muslim superiority in the form of Erdogan.

Other links of interest:
Arutz Sheva
Ynet
JPost
Vos iz Neias
Huffington Post
Debka
Ilya Meyer

Den turkiska regimen har lika svårt med språk som med matematik

2010-03-05T14:37:00.000+01:00

Historiker världen över anser att Turkiet är skyldigt till folkmord.

På tidiga 1900-talet försökte Turkiet, då under Ottomanstyre, att förinta det armeniska folket. Uppskattningsvis massakrerades fler än 1,5 miljoner civila i försöket att skapa ett Turkiet fritt från armenier.

Nu säger den Turkiska regimen att den känner sig kränkt sedan USA antog en resolution där man betraktar Turkiets massmord på armenier som folkmord.

Turkiet har på liknande sätt anklagats för försök till folkmord på landets kurdiska minoritet.

Turkiets armeniska och kurdiska befolkningar har båda decimerats som resultat av landets politik som går ut på såväl etnisk rensning och dokumenterat folkmord som fortsatt systematisk diskriminering.

Som svar på USAs beslut har Turkiet nu kallat tillbaka sin Washingtonambassadör.

Mot denna bakgrund bör man komma ihåg att Turkiet konsekvent har anklagat Israel för etnisk rensning och folkmord på palestinska araber.

I det sammanhanget är det av värde att notera att från den ursprungliga befolkning på knappt 160 000 år 1948 har Israels arabiska befolkning idag vuxit till drygt 1,5 miljoner – en tiofaldig ökning.

Under samma period har den arabiska befolkningen i de judiska provinserna Judéen och Samarien (också kallad Västbanken, som de palestinska araberna vill ha som framtida palestinsk stat vid sidan om den palestinska staten Jordanien där 70% av befolkning är palestinska araber) vuxit från ungefär 460 000 år 1948 till 2,5 miljoner idag. Detta är en drygt femfaldig ökning. I Gazaremsan har den arabiska befolkningen vuxit från 83 000 år 1948 till 1,4 miljoner idag, en 17-faldig ökning.

Däremot finns inte en enda jude kvar i Gazaremsan sedan den etniska rensningen på judar fullbordades för några år sedan. Det är dock en sanning med modifikation - det finns alltjämt en jude kvar i Gazaremsan. Gilad Schalit, som kidnappades från Israel som tonåring och som sedan dess har hållits av Hamasregimen utan tillgång till Röda korset, advokat, familj eller läkare.

Men oavsett den palestinska befolkningsstatistiken och oavsett det dokumenterade beviset för att judar har etniskt rensats från Gaza, vidhåller Turkiets nuvarande regim att Israel är skyldigt till folkmord och etnisk rensning.

Det turkiska styret har uppenbarligen lika stora problem med enkel vokabulär som med lågstadiematematik.

Turkiets islamistiska regim verkar tro att det är förenligt med god sed att tillämpa en måttstock för muslimska nationer, och ett helt annat för judar och kristna. Mycket talande är det faktum att för första gången någonsin försökte Turkiet inte förmå Israel att använda sitt inflytande i Washington för att avvärja den amerikanska omröstningen. Så frusna är numera relationerna mellan Jerusalem och Ankara sedan Turkiets ständiga påhopp på den judiska staten.

Uppfriskande är det dock att se att åtminstone i USA är man äntligen beredd att kalla saker vid sitt rätta namn.

Intressant länk från denna blogg:
Bojkott och etnisk rensning

Intressanta länkar från andra källor:
Jerusalem Post
Tundra Tabloids: Barry Rubin – Turkey in the Fire
Agora: Daniel Pipes – Turkey: An Ally no More
Barry Rubin: Is the Turkish-Israeli Alliance Over?

The Turkish regime: poor linguistic skills, even poorer at mathematics

2010-03-05T11:03:00.000+01:00

Turkey is widely regarded by historians the world over as being responsible for genocide.

In the early 20th century, Turkey, then under Ottoman rule, attempted to wipe out the Armenians, massacring more than one and a half million civilians in an attempt to create a nation ethnically cleansed of Armenians.

Now Turkey is outraged that a US congressional committee has approved a statement categorizing Turkey’s mass-killing of Armenians as genocide.

Turkey has been similarly accused of attempted genocide against its Kurdish minority.

Turkey’s Armenian and Kurdish populations have both been decimated as a result of the country’s policies of ethnic cleansing and documented genocide as well as ongoing discrimination.

In response to the US congressional resolution, Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Washington.

Against this backdrop, it needs to be remembered that Turkey has consistently accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian Arabs.

Also against this backdrop, it needs to be noted that from an original population of just under 160,000 in 1948, the Arab population of Israel has grown to just over 1.5 million. This is a ten-fold increase.

At the same time, the Arab population of Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) has grown from about 460,000 in 1948 to 2.5 million in 2009, increasing almost five and a half times its original size. In the Gaza Strip, the Arab population grew from 83,000 in 1948 to 1.4 million today, an almost 17-fold increase.

These are the results of the “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” that according to the Turkish regime Israel has carried out on the Arab population. Facts notwithstanding, the Turkish regime continues to maintain that Israel is guilty of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The Turkish regime apparently has a problem not just with rudimentary vocabulary but also with elementary grade-school mathematics.

The Islamist-leaning Turkish regime really does believe it is proper for one yardstick to be applied to Muslim nations, and for a totally different one to be applied to Jews and Christians.

It is refreshing that the US, at least, is finally prepared to use the English language properly.

Relevant link from this website:
Boycott and ethnic cleansing

Allt mindre rött i Malmö, allt mer brunt

2010-03-04T18:20:00.000+01:00

Så kan man sammanfatta hur Reepalus Malmö uppfattas.

Inte bara av svenska judar som flyr staden tack vare Reepalus aktioner och ord.

Utan även av andra svenskar – såväl privata individer som respektabla medier.

Och nu även i allt högre grad medier i utlandet. Som idag Wall Street Journal i USA och för någon vecka sedan brittiska Sunday Telegraph.

Intressant nog finns det en enda tidning i Sverige som anser att Reepalu gör helt rätt i sin hantering av judarnas tilltagande utsatthet i Malmö och den växande antisemitismen bland stadens aggressiva islamister som orsakar judarnas utsatthet: Aftonbladet.

Alltså samma tidning som förra året begåvade världen med de Boströmska fantasierna om en världomspännande judisk konspiration kring organtrafficking. Fantasier som sågades av en enig presskår världen över som ovärdig det journalistiska yrket.

Den bruna färgen känns igen.

Det är knappast förvånande att Aftonbladet skulle rusa till Reepalus försvar medan han sjunker allt djupare i ett träsk av uttalanden som många betraktar som antisemitiska.

Men det är uppfriskande – samt hedervärt och mycket talande – att inga andra medier försvarar honom.

Krister Thelin, lagman i Skånska hovrätten samt ledamot i FNs kommitté för mänskliga rättigheter, anser att Ilmar Reepalus behandling av Malmös judar bottnar i röstfiske.

Det är en anmärkningsvärt objektiv, lugn och sansad analys som Thelin presenterar.

Och ett bevis på att det tyvärr begås rovfiske i verkligt grumliga svenska vatten.

Intressanta länkar:
FiM
SvD
SvD
Gunnar Hökmark
Fredrik Malm

This Palestinian issue is a complex one

2010-03-03T14:30:00.001+01:00

The Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank want to create a second Palestinian Arab state alongside the first Palestinian Arab state of Jordan.

Fair enough.

They want to create their second Palestinian Arab state in the millennia-old Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria.

Fair enough.

In the civilized world, people who want something that isn’t theirs enter into a process of negotiation. There are prices to be agreed, contracts to be signed, guarantees to be provided and money to be paid.

Except when it comes to the Palestinian Arabs. They have indeed been living in Judea and Samaria for a number of generations. They immigrated there from all over the Arab world in the wake of the Jews’ success in rebuilding the Jewish nation. The Jews revitalized the region, elevating it from a malaria-ridden hell-hole as part of the Ottoman Empire to a flourishing modern centre of agriculture, industry, trade and commerce.

None of this alters the fact that, following their mass immigration to Mandate Palestine looking for jobs created by the Jews, the Palestinian Arabs are here today, and they are here to stay.

It is their right to stay.

What remains is to negotiate the terms, the price to be paid by the Palestinian Arabs who want to take over ownership of the Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria, with appropriate border adjustments as necessary.

What is not negotiable is that the Palestinian Arabs really DO have to pay a price. Acquisition without payment is called theft. That payment is exactly what the Palestinian Arabs are trying to avoid. And they are very insistent.

They insist on their right to commit terrorism against Jews.

They insist on their right to indoctrinate children and adults in anti-Semitism, including in the state media and via their mosques.

They insist on their “right to return” to Israel as part of a wider regional settlement that will give them something they never had – a second country of their own, Palestine.

Read it again: the Palestinian Arabs want a country of their own, and insist that the key to their independence is some God-given (and UN-sanctioned) right to settle in another sovereign country, namely Israel. The equivalent would be for Albanians to claim the right of independence by demanding the right – sanctioned by the UN – to settle in Canada.

It is an absurdity that would never be entertained.

Here, however, the demands are being made by Palestinian Arabs, so what would be regarded as sublime comedy in any other context is treated with the utmost seriousness by people with impressive titles and even more impressive salaries – paid for by the UN. That’s that portion of your income that is taken from you every single month and sent to the UN in pursuit of reasoned, logical, well thought-out policies like this.

What else are the Palestinian Arabs demanding? For on-the-spot insight into what the Palestinian Arab national movement brings with it wherever it goes, look at the following short film clip from MEMRI. It shows just how much disregard the Palestinian national movement has for the countries in which it operates. Israelis may be on the front line of Palestinian Arab terrorism every single day, but you’ve got to feel really sorry for the many Arab communities the world over that have been and still are stigmatized and bullied in their own homes by a Palestinian national movement that respects nobody and nothing, least of all the basic rules of logic and respect. Read the transcript of the entire clip here.

The sentiments expressed by the Lebanese in their own homes are echoed throughout the Arab world. Despite official government lip service to “the Palestinian cause”, nobody in the Arab world wants anything to do with the Palestinian Arabs. Not because they are not sympathetic to the plight their leaders brought upon them, but because they have shown time and again an absolute unwillingness to do anything to extricate themselves through positive contribution. There have been countless opportunities for peace – turned down every single time by a Palestinian Arab leadership greedy for ever more. Not least a Palestine built on the ruins of Israel. All or nothing.

It’s all enshrined in that demand for a “return” to Israel – as part of the Palestinian yearning for an independent Palestine. The utter absurdity, the sheer lack of logic, the total absence of historical perspective, is staggering.

So is the Palestinian issue such a complex one after all?

Not in the least.

Tackle the intransigence at source: stop the Iranian interference and prevent the UN from infecting the issue, and the problem will resolve itself over an amicable cup of tea by midmorning tomorrow. The finer details may take until afternoon coffee to finalize.

With everyone doing what needs to be done. Because everyone knows exactly what has to be done.

Maybe when the Palestinian national movement finally ratifies the purchase agreement for the Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria, pays the purchase price and builds its own country, then the Lebanese will finally gain the freedom of their own country.

The Palestinian exodus from Arab lands is eagerly awaited throughout the Arab world.

Because the Arab world is truly desperate for its independence from 60-odd years of Palestinian occupation.

Here are some interesting articles on how Palestinian yearning for their own homeland often seems to involve not just the murder of Jews in Israel but also the murder of Christians in the West Bank and Lebanon, and the murder of Muslims in Syria, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. Among many other places.

Read here an account of how the Palestinians tried to take over Jordan.

For a chilling list of the victims of Palestinian terrorism waged on Lebanese soil, read here.

To find out how much the former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad mistrusted the Palestinians, read this.

Read here how the Palestinians and their collaborators still do battle with Egypt.

Read here how Kuwait expelled most of its Palestinian population after the Palestinians sided with Saddam Hussein in his attack on and occupation of Kuwait.

Libya’s Gaddafi expelled thousands of Palestinians, whom he regarded as a seditious force in his country.

Read here about how Italy expelled a Palestinian Arab after he murdered an elderly wheelchair-bound man just because he was Jewish. The brave Palestinian freedom-fighter threw the man – strapped in his wheelchair – off a cruise liner into the sea, where he drowned.

The drip effect

2010-03-01T17:34:00.000+01:00

The tactic is well-known. The constant drip designed to gradually erode all resistance.

It’s the tactic that the world’s collective of anti-Semites and assorted other racists are employing against the Jewish state.

The most recent outbreak of this epidemic is IAW, Israel Apartheid Week, whose purpose is to “educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system”. Bafflingly, the organisation then retracts, saying that Israel “is obviously not the exact same thing as Apartheid South Africa” but goes on to maintain that as long as the offensive likeness can be used as a bludgeon against the Jewish state, it will be put to good use.

Visit the CAMERA website to find out how the IAW's Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) strategy is a publicly funded weapon designed specifially to prevent any prospects for peace in the Middle East.

NGO Monitor underlines the fact that organisations such as IAW and Sweden’s Alternative Information Center are actually government-funded. Individual European states and the EU as a bloc provide most of the funding for these subversive activities against a UN member state, the aim of which is to delegitimise that state.

IAW demands an end to “colonization of all Arab lands” and “full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel,” while also demanding the removal of the security fence that Israel has built where it provides most security against Palestinian Arab terrorism – which occasionally means those Jewish provinces that Palestinian Arabs want for a future state but without the niceties of having to negotiate over their acquisition. IAW also demands what it terms the “right of return for Palestinian refugees”. Inexplicably, not a return to the Arab state of Palestine, but to the Jewish state of Israel.

IAW, like legion other anti-Israel organisations, never works to better the lot of Palestinian Arabs – it does not help set up trade missions to boost Palestinian Arab commerce, industry, banking or agriculture. It does not support joint ventures to increase Palestinian Arab trade abroad. It does not work to place Palestinian Arab products on supermarket shelves. Instead, IAW, like others of its ilk, has just one item on its agenda: the deconstruction of Israel and its replacement with an Islamist state.

For a brief yet exhaustive examination of what IAW and its cohorts stand for and what they really could do, read Christopher Aqurette’s article entitled “Racists celebrate annual Israel-bashing week”.

Of course, IAW does not operate in a vacuum. It is aided and abetted by politically driven media and by some rather besotted politicians.

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt writes in his blog (in Swedish) about his concern over Israeli military overflights in Lebanese skies – but ignores the reason for these monitoring flights: that Iranian terrorist proxy Hizbollah, in flagrant breach of a binding UN Security Council resolution, continues to rearm in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel. Carl Bildt writes his blog from his vantage point aboard a UN helicopter flying along the Lebanon-Israel border where he can clearly see the massive Hizbollah infrastructure swiftly spreading ever further south towards Israel. Perhaps his helicopter had blacked-out windows.

Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson is currently participating in an overtly anti-Israel event called the Gaza Accountability Conference in which she demands that “the Gaza crossings must be opened unconditionally and immediately” and that “Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem must be united”. She has not said anything about what the Palestinian Arabs have to do to earn this, such as a stop to terror or racist indoctrination. Neither has the Swedish government minister said anything about Hamas releasing the one Jew still (hopefully) alive in a Gaza Strip that has otherwise been ethnically cleansed of all Jews, both dead and alive. Gilad Schalit was kidnapped as a teenager from inside Israel more than three years ago and has since been held in Gaza without access to legal representation (not that he is accused of anything), without visits by the Red Cross (not that they have demanded visitation rights), and without access to his family. Swedish government minister Gunilla Carlsson’s silence on this issue while voicing demands that benefit Palestinian Arab terrorists is a cause for grave concern.

Large swathes of the major media here seem to be equally blind. The UN’s own Middle East envoy Robert Serry says clearly that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In other words, the hysterical allegations of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis are merely media manipulation, politically motivated activism in favour of a preordained strategic agenda. His position and title notwithstanding, Robert Serry is being largely disregarded the world over since his message does not fit in with the image that the racists and anti-Israel demagogues are determined to disseminate.

In the meantime, Islamism is advancing in leaps and bounds. At the same time as Carl Bildt uses the media to report what he does not see, Robert Serry is ignored by the media for what he does see and Gunilla Carlsson is given a media megaphone to voice what the Swedish public want to hear in this election year, Islamist terror organizations are growing in strength not just in the Middle East but elsewhere. Martin Bright reports that Britain is developing into a crucial hub for Hamas, the Gaza regime that is regarded as a terrorist organisation by the UN, the EU and the Quartet. His article makes frightening reading.

Back in Sweden it’s business as usual. Swedish extreme-left publication Flamman has an interview (in Swedish) with Anna Wester, public relations contact for the Palestinian Groups in Sweden (PGS), in which she says that should the extreme-left coalition of communists, social democrats and environmental crusaders win the national elections in Sweden this September, they will “recall Sweden’s military attaché from Israel and all weapons trade with Israel will be stopped”. This includes banning the use of unmanned Israeli-made drones to protect the lives of Swedish soldiers fighting Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. The Israeli drones have proven their superiority in protecting Swedish soldiers on dangerous missions deep in Afghanistan, but the red-green coalition, should it come into power, would prefer to see dead Swedish soldiers rather than Swedish soldiers owing their lives to Israeli technology. By way of reference, during the World War Two – during which Sweden remained neutral while selling high-grade iron ore to Nazi Germany – sedition against one’s own country’s armed forces was a treasonable offence. The coalition of Sweden's extremist reds and greens must be reading a different rule-book.

Flamman also knows how to up the ante. In an article reminiscent of Sweden’s infamous Aftonbladet allegations (unfounded and later withdrawn) that Israel systematically murders Palestinian Arabs to harvest their organs, the newspaper insinuates in a recent Swedish-language article that there may have been mass rapes of women in Gaza (the insinuation being that the rapes were carried out by Israeli soldiers) for the simple reason that in conflicts in other parts of the world, such abominable acts have indeed taken place. Not even Hamas allege any such thing, but the left-wing Swedish paper has its own dirty war to fight against the Jewish state. Jews are guilty by virtue of someone else's crime on a totally different continent. Sweden's communists go from strength to strength.

Meantime the increasingly open red-green-brown anti-Semitism continues to stain Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmö. Some Swedish writers such as Per Gudmundson, Gulan Avci, Mathias Sundin and Dilsa Demirbag-Sten (articles in Swedish) have been very quick to train the spotlight on this disease.

The strange thing is that when it comes to anti-Semitic attacks on the Jewish state by Swedish politicians, many bloggers wrote already a year ago about communist party (nowadays rebranded Left Party) leader Lars Ohly sporting a keffiyeh in which the whole of Israel has been erased and replaced by an Islamist Palestine. Back then, the Swedish media ignored the episode and the evidence in the blogosphere. This year, however, is election year, so suddenly last year’s blog news has suddenly made it (article in Swedish) into the mainstream traditional media.

Better late than never, of course. But why so late?

One fine day it’s going to be way too late. The victims have already been marked – and not just in Sweden.

It’s a strange world – deafening silence on moral issues, but deafening cacophony on non-issues. In the category of cacophony we find the Middle East’s most underrated stand-up comedian, Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi, who is actively whipping up the Arab world into a jihadi frenzy against Switzerland.

You read right – Switzerland!

And while Libya is wowing the Arab masses against Europe, Iran is meticulously and methodically pursuing its plan for global jihad on a scale never before imagined. Read here what Reuters writes about Iran’s plans to force the world to its knees. Iran has its sights set not on the USA or Israel but the world, first stop Europe. Ignore the Reuters report at your peril.

Vem äger sanningen med stort ”S”?

2010-02-28T15:55:00.000+01:00

Uppenbarligen inte Sveriges utrikesminister Carl Bildt.

Han skriver på sin blogg om sin oro över att israeliska spaningsplan överflyger Libanon – men nämner inte med ett ord anledningen till detta: att Hizbollah och Libanon i flagrant brott mot en resolution i FNs Säkerhetsråd fortsätter att med Irans hjälp beväpna Hizbollah i Libanons södra del. Ändå bloggar Bildt om det som han ser – eller vägrar att inse – från helikoptern som flyger i Libanons luftrum och som ger honom en utmärkt överblick över situationen. Om han bara inte blundade.

Uppenbarligen ser inte de stora medierna sanningen heller. Vare sig i Sverige eller ute i världen. FNs eget Mellanösternsändebud Robert Serry säger klart och tydligt att det inte finns någon humanitär kris i Gazaremsan. Underförstått att all hysteri kring Gazabornas påstått trängda situation är mediemanipulerad, upphaussad av politiskt motiverade aktivister med en bestämd strategisk dagordning. Han ignoreras av de stora medierna världen över – budskapet passar lika illa med den önskade bilden som Bildts ”blunda och tala” politik.

Under tiden byggs islamismens högborgar lite varstans – även i Storbritannien. Samtidigt som Bildt inte rapporterar om vad han ser, och Robert Serry ignoreras för att han rapporterar om vad han ser, växer styrkan hos islamistiska terroristorganisationer inte bara i Mellanöstern utan även utomlands. Journalisten Martin Bright rapporterar om att Storbritannien har utvecklats till ett avgörande centrum för Hamas – som har stämplats som terrororganisation av såväl FN som EU och Kvartetten. Det är skrämmande läsning.

Här i Sverige ses inget av detta. Flamman har en intervju med Anna Wester, informationsansvarig för Palestinagrupperna i Sverige, där hon bland annat vill ”kalla tillbaka den svenska militärattachén och att vapenexporten till Israel upphör om de rödgröna vinner valet”. Hon uttryckte inga åsikter om nödvändigheten av att på motsvarande sätt upphöra med kontakter med Libanon, Syrien och Iran för den fortsatta beväpningen av Hizbollah. Ej heller uttryckte hon någon åsikt om det folkrättsriktiga i att kidnappa en israelisk tonåring från Israel och hålla honom inspärrad i Gaza utan tillgång till vare sig advokat (han är inte anklagad för något förutom att vara jude), läkare, Röda korset (som han heller inte krävt att få träffa honom), föräldrar eller andra än Hamasterrorister.

Flamman går faktiskt ett steg vidare: i god Aftonbladet-anda skriver man på ett insinuant sätt att det nog kanske måhända har skett massvåldtäkter på kvinnor i Gaza (underförstått av israeler) eftersom massvåldtäkter sker i andra oroshärdar i världen. Den selektiva tystnaden och den ännu selektivare frispråkigheten säger måhända mer om de röd-gröna än om till exempel Hamas, som ju fortsätter att idka människohandel som man alltid gjort – också det ett brott mot de mänskliga rättigheterna. Samtidigt som inte ens Hamas påstår att det har skett massvåldtäkter av kvinnor i Gazaremsan. Nog har Flamman sitt alldeles eget lilla smutsiga krig att föra mot den judiska staten.

I övrigt fortsätter den tilltagande och alltmer öppna röd-grön-bruna antisemitismen i Sveriges tredje största stad, Malmö. Vissa svenska skribenter har varit föredömligt tidiga med att rikta rampljuset mot denna avart i civilisation som antisemitism faktiskt är – namn som Per Gudmundson, Gulan Avci, Mathias Sundin och Dilsa Demirbag-Sten är prominenta bland andra.

Det konstiga är att otaliga bloggare skrev redan för ett år sedan om det fullständigt olämpliga i att kommunistledaren Lars Ohly stolt bar på ett plagg där hela Israel hade ersatts av ett arabiskt Palestina, medan hela resten av den svenska medievärlden valde att tiga om det. År 2010, dock, som är valår, har detta plötsligt blivit hett stoff.

Bättre sent än aldrig, förstås. Men varför så sent?

För en vacker dag kommer det att bli alldeles för sent. Offren har redan utsetts – och inte bara här i Sverige.

Ömsom tystnad, ömsom oväsen. Till den senare kategorin tillhör Mellanösterns ständige ståuppare, Libyens Kadaffi, som manar till jihad mot bland andra Schweiz. Schweiz!

Medan Libyen piskar upp en jihadi stämning mot Europa, tar Iran målmedvetet de steg som krävs för att genomföra planen på den globala jihadens intåg på världsscenen på ett sätt som aldrig tidigare skådats. Läs vad Reuters skriver om Irans planer på att tvinga omvärlden på knä. Man syftar inte på Israel eller USA, utan hela omvärlden, första anhalt Europa.

Läs andras åsikter om antisemitism, jihadism, islamism och om hur röd + grön alltid blir brun:
Fred i Mellanöstern
ME Aktualia mm
Dagen
SvD
SvD
SvD
SvD
Sydsvenskan
UNT
Expressen
Aftonbladet
KvP
Corren
NSK
Sapere Aude
Karin Rebel
SwedenIsrael
MXp
I Gilboas Svala Skugga
Israel i Sverige

Ilmar Reepalu of Malmö: Wrong in every language

2010-02-25T16:50:00.000+01:00

Estonian-born mayor of Malmö Mr Illmar Reepalu seems to have an inbred need to disseminate hatred of everything Jewish.

He also appears to have a rather uncomfortable relationship with the truth.

And he seems to have a markedly selective grasp of the English language.

In fact, every time he speaks or writes – whatever the language of his choice – he adds further anti-Semitic hatred to a race crisis he deliberately sparked over a year ago when he attempted to prevent Jews from playing tennis in the southern Swedish city of Malmö.

In his latest diatribe, the Social Democratic mayor of Malmö, more than one-quarter of whose population is Muslim, makes a wildly inaccurate claim about the Community Security Trust (CST), a British charitable organisation that, among other things, monitors cases of anti-Semitism in the British Isles. Ilmar Reepalu writes in Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet:

“The UK saw a record increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2009. The Community Security Trust, a Jewish security organisation, says the reason for this is Israel’s offensive in Gaza. But when I say exactly the same thing, I am called an anti-Semite.”

Here follows a lesson in English, truth and integrity all in one:

Start off with what the CST actually wrote, in its own words:
“The reason for this unprecedented rise in antisemitic incidents lies in the reactions to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and southern Israel, which led to record numbers of incidents in January and February.”
(Page 10 of the CST report)

And again, more specifically:

“The unprecedented rise in the number of antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2009 occurred largely because of the extreme reactions to the trigger event of the Gaza conflict …

(Page 23 of the CST report)
At no stage does the CST write, claim or otherwise insinuate that the reason for the spike in anti-Semitic attacks in the UK is because of “Israel’s offensive in Gaza”, as Ilmar Reepalu claims.

The CST makes no value judgements as to who did what first. That is beyond its remit. The CST does not state that Hamas started the conflict by kidnapping an Israeli teenager from inside sovereign Israel. Nor does it state that even before the kidnapping, Hamas had fired more than 10,000 missiles on civilian Israeli communities in southern Israel, with the rate of Hamas missile fire actually increasing during a six-month cease-fire.

Nor, for that matter, does the CST say that Israel’s actions are a subsequent response, or an initiated action, or anything else. It simply notes that the Gaza conflict served as a “trigger event” for a sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the UK. Nothing else.

Mr Reepalu’s misrepresentations do not stem from an inability to understand English.

They stem from his animosity toward Jews.

In Malmö, in the rest of Sweden, in the Middle East and even in Britain.

Several Swedish journalists and politicians have taken the Social Democratic mayor of Sweden’s third-largest city to task for his unsavoury views and his extremist statements.

After weeks and months of highly troubling silence, the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic party, Ms Mona Sahlin, has finally spoken on the subject. Mr Reepalu has previously gone on record as saying that the Jews of Malmö have only themselves to blame for anti-Semitic attacks against them because they did not clearly state their animosity towards the Jewish state of Israel. He has never required that the Muslims of Malmö adopt an equally dismissive stance towards rogue Muslim regimes such as Iran, Hamas, Hizbullah, Saudi Arabia or Somalia, for instance. Disparity in the treatment of two ethnic groups or two religions is recognised the world over as a clear expression of racism.

Now Mr Reepalu’s party leader Mona Sahlin says in an interview with Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet that “Ilmar is not an anti-Semite but rather someone who fights against racism”.

Bearing in mind Mr Reepalu’s track record of animosity towards Jews, this has been perceived as a rather extraordinary statement.

Ms Sahlin had more to say: “Jews deserve strong support but it is also necessary never to confuse the issues of anti-Semitism and Zionism”. Some analysts in Sweden see this as advice to the country’s Jews not to cry “anti-Semitism” every time Swedish Jews are attacked by Islamist and left-wing mobs demonstrating their hatred of the Jewish state by attacking Jews in the streets, Jewish places of worship and Jewish cemeteries. It calls into question Social Democratic party leader Mona Sahlin's judgement and credibility.

Ms Sahlin, who hopes to win the general elections in Sweden this September, did, however, concede that “Ilmar did make some rather unfortunate statements”.

That might go down in the history books as the understatement of the year. And this is still only February.

Links to articles and blogs condemning Ilmar Reepalu for racism (in Swedish):
Gulan Avci: Are Jews worth nothing to the Social Democrats?
Matthias Sundin: Reepalu is responsible for increase in attacks on Jews
Svenska Dagbladet: Big debate in the media following SvD's editorial about Reepalu
SvD article: Ilmar Reepalu should resign
SvD article: The Jews flee Malmö as Ilmar Reepalu watches
Sydsvenskan: An unpleasant picture of Malmö emerges

Links on the situation in which the Jews of Sweden find themselves:
Unholy Trinity
Boycott the Jews in Sweden
Sweden: an Islamic republic in Europe?

Hopplös röd-grön Mellanösternpolitik

2010-02-22T18:50:00.000+01:00

Palestinska regeringspartiet Fatah beslagtar palestinska terroristers kassamraketer på Västbanken och överlämnar dem till Israel, som ytterligare ett steg i en ömsesidig normalisering av relationerna.

PLO och Fatah verkar vara angelägna om att göra upp med sitt väldokumenterade förflutet som terrororganisation och till och med betalar enorma summor i kompensation till PLOs många terroroffer. Det är en anmärkningsvärd framsteg.

Helle Klein är tyst.

NATO-styrkan i Afghanistan dödar av misstag flera afghanska civila vid åtminstone två tillfällen under den senaste veckan – förödande misstag i krigets hetta i kampen mot Talibaner som slaktar religiösa och politiska oliktänkande samt kvinnor varhelst de påträffas.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Sunnimuslimer utför våldsamma attacker mot shiamuslimer, och shiamuslimer utför våldsamma attacker mot sunnimuslimer.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Ilmar Reepalu gör en serie fördömande uttalanden mot judar – i Sverige. Hans uttalanden upplevs som rasistiska - även av medierna och politikerna.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Arablandet Dubai är värdland för en internationell tennisturnering där israeliskan Shachar Pe’er deltar, medan israeler som ville spela tennis i den svenska staden Malmö först förbjöds av Kleins partikamrat Reepalu, sedan fick spela inför tomma läktare – och därigenom förlorade det ekonomiskt hårt trängda Malmö värdefulla biljett- och turistintäkter.

Helle Klein är tyst.

De utländska medierna börjar allt mer få upp ögonen för ett nytt Sverige vars anseende i allt högre grad befläckas röd-brunt med kontrasterande islamistiska färger i form av den gula Hizbollahflaggan och den svarta Islamiska Jihadflaggan. Den gröna Hamasflaggan har vajat i Malmö sedan länge.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Sveriges anseende som tolerant land börjar allvarligt ifrågasättas. Läs Dick Erixons utmärkta bloggpost i ämnet.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Muslimska asylsökanden flyr genom det muslimska Egypten i ett desperat försök att söka fristad i världens enda judiska land, Israel, men de skjuts i ryggen av muslimska soldater i Egypten.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Islamistiska Hamas attackerar det svenskaste som tänkas kan – Palmecentrets verksamhet i Gazaremsan. Läs vad SMP, Palmecentret och FiM skriver om detta väl magstarka tillvägagångsätt, då välmenande svenskt bistånd blir föremål för islamistiska påhopp.

Helle Klein är tyst.

Men nu äntligen tar Helle Klein bladet från munnen. Nu äntligen är hon inte tyst. Hon skriver om en ”Hoppfull rödgrön Mellanösternpolitik”. Hon hänvisar till en artikel i den i internationella journalistkretsar helt sågade populistiska publikationen Aftonbladet skriven av företrädare för extremvänstern, och hon prisar just Olof Palmes Internationella Center som tillsammans med andra aktörer ska hålla seminarium där temat är Gaza och den internationella rätten.

Helle Klein är inte känd för sitt sinne för humor, hon menar allvar. Hon syftar inte på man inom ramen för den internationella rätten nu ska rannsaka Hamas för att terroristorganisationen trakasserar Palmecentret i Gaza, ej heller syftar hon på att terroristorganisationen än idag skjuter missiler mot civila judar i Israel.

Nej, hon menar att man bör anstifta en total bojkott mot den judiska staten just för att Israel besvarar Hamas angrepp. Hon vill bland annat driva på en total svensk bojkott av all handel med Israel, i synnerhet gällande försvarsangelägenheter.

För drygt ett år sedan var det Ilmar Reepalu som hellre förhindrade hans stad från att tjäna välbehövliga pengar under en tennisturnering om det innebar att judar skulle komma till hans stad – inget pris var för högt för det politiska ändamålet. Slutsumman för Reepalus islamistiska vurm kostade både staden och staten mångmiljoner kronor i polisinsatser och förstörd egendom - förutom uteblivna intäkter. Läs här hur Reepalus framfart har gett namn åt ett föga hedervärt tillstånd – Malmösyndromet.

Och idag är det partikollegan Helle Klein, några dagar efter att två svenska soldater tragiskt stupade i Afghanistan i frontlinjen mot internationell terrorism, som anser att det är bättre att fler svenska soldater dör än att de skyddas av den bästa utrustning som finns i form av obemannade bevakningsflygplan – av israelisk tillverkning. Läs bloggen Mellanöstern Aktualia MM för en skarp analys om vilka effekter en sådan bojkott kan ha för svenskars liv.

Det är naturligtvis en politik som för står för det rödgröna blocket, med figurer som Reepalu, Klein och Gahrton i spetsen.

Samtidigt bör man komma ihåg att kombinationen röd + grön = brun.

Helle Klein avslutar sina tankar med det oförglömliga ”De rödgrönas artikel bådar gott för framtiden”.

Vilket gör det så mycket bättre att jag redan några dagar före henne skrev om just den rödgröna sörjan i en bloggpost med titeln ”Den oheliga treenigheten” och vilka förödande konsekvenser det skulle ha för Sverige och faktiskt för Mellanöstern.

Helle Klein och de rödgröna: vare sig först med nyheterna, eller speciellt logiska i sina tankar, eller ens solidariska vad gäller nationens intressen.

Men hörs – det gör de allt.

The unholy trinity

2010-02-20T13:05:00.000+01:00

2010 is election year in Sweden. In power today is an alliance consisting of the Conservatives, Liberals, Centre Party and Christian Democrats.

That is something that Sweden’s communists (recently rebranded the Left Party), the extreme-left Social Democrats and ultra-left Greens want to change.

On February 17 three of these three parties’ leading lights – Urban Ahlin, Hans Linde and Per Gahrton – put forward their intended coalition’s manifesto should Sweden turn red this September.

The manifesto has one item in particular focus: the Middle East.

The headline of the trio’s article – published in Aftonbladet, the tabloid that brought the world the unresearched, unproven, refuted and subsequently withdrawn allegations of Jewish and Israeli plundering of Arab organs for profit – reads “Red-Green Collaboration for a free Palestine.”

The Communist/Left Party component of this unholy trinity demands that Swedish troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan. That is a conflict that does not concern Sweden, according to the strategists outlining the foreign policy of a possible future Swedish government. In fact, renowned extremist Jan Myrdal (read here a Hizbollah interview with him reported in Sweden’s Radio Islam, whose proprietor has served a jail sentence for anti-Semitic sedition) said after two Swedish soldiers were killed in Afghanistan that “the only good foreign soldier on Afghan soil is a dead one”.

However, the Red-Green Collaboration does want Swedish troops to be sent to “Palestine”. Not to shield Israeli civilians from Hamas rocket attacks on Sderot’s schools, or to protect Israelis from Hizbollah rocket attacks on Haifa hospitals, or to prevent Fatah from murdering an Israeli father of seven in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank, but to prevent Israel from responding to attacks from these organizations. For an up-to-date assessment about Fatah by analyst Caroline Glick, read her article entitled "The Fatah Fairy Tale".

Hamas openly maintains that it will never recognize Israel. The collaborators in Sweden’s left-wing parties that want to take over the reins of power this September have no problem with this position, signally failing to register their protest at this intransigence. It is not a new stance – Hamas always have and still continue to maintain this position.

Interestingly, the Red-Green Collaboration not comment on the fact that Hamas is so uninterested in compromising its strict interpretation of what the future holds in store that it is even targeting the Palme Centre (link in Swedish only). The Palme Centre is a sometimes rather shadowy Swedish NGO dedicated to legitimising Palestinian radicalism and delegitimising the Jewish state – using Swedish state funding for the purpose. Read the following article to find out more about Sweden’s involvement with shadowy, non-transparent NGOs - it contains a wealth of relevant links.

Furthermore, the trio of left-wing politicians do not deal with the illegal aspect of any links with Hamas, classified by the UN as a terrorist organisation. The Red-Green Collaboration support breaking the law in order to pursue their agenda of a second Palestinian state alongside Jordan, at the expense of Israel.

Return to Afghanistan: the Red-Green Collaboration say that should they come into power, they will cease all military cooperation with Israel. This includes the purchase, leasing and/or usage of such Israeli military hardware as airborne drones to monitor Taliban operations in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that, a few days ago, two Swedish servicemen were killed in a Taliban operation in Afghanistan. The Red-Green Collaboration maintain their highly principled stance – no defence contacts with Israel even if it means saving Swedish lives. That is something the Swedish public – which is staunchly behind the nation’s contribution to Afghanistan’s future and development – may wish to take note of.

The principles of the Red-Green Collaboration also prevent contacts between the Swedish intelligence service and its Israeli counterpart. Bearing in mind that Sweden is a safe-haven for and an increasingly front-line participator in the drive to radicalise and recruit jihadi Islamists for terror operations abroad, this is again something that the Swedish public may want to note. Not least because failure to cooperate on intelligence issues promotes increasingly unrestricted radicalization on the domestic scene in Sweden, particularly in the southern city of Malmö, whose mayor Ilmar Reepalu has made himself a name as a radical support of Islamism and a vocal critic of Swedish Jews.

On the subject of the creation of a second Palestinian Arab state alongside Jordan – where 70 percent of the population is Palestinian Arab and where the state has moved to revoke Jordanian citizenship from Palestinian Arabs – the Red-Green Collaboration demands that a first step be the dismantling of the security barrier constructed by Israel to stop Palestinian Arab suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks. However, the trio make no mention of the need to stop the Palestinian Arab terror attacks that necessitated the barrier in the first place.

Amazingly, the word “terror” does not figure in the Red-Green Collaboration’s position paper. Not once.

It is a telling discrepancy. A coalition of left-wingers and extreme left-wingers who want to take over the reins of power in Sweden, who fail to recognize or acknowledge terror abroad, are willing to sacrifice Swedish lives abroad, and who promote contravention of international law.

All so as to promote the interests of Palestine over Israel.

It seems like the Communist, Social Democratic and Green parties are campaigning in the wrong elections – it’s Ramallah they should set their sights on, not Stockholm.

After all, the current Fatah incumbent in Ramallah has already come to the end of his legal term in office and is now just staying on in power, irrespective of the legislative niceties of the situation.

In old-fashioned English this was called a coup. Possibly a dictatorship. Whatever it is, it certainly isn’t democracy.

Here is what Fatah has to say about the Palme Centre, set up in honour of Sweden’s notoriously anti-American and anti-Israel Social Democrat Olof Palme: “After the election in 2006, we were contacted by social democratic parties from many countries. But we get along best with the Swedes”.

It figures.

Watch this space in September for the Swedish election results.

What exactly do the Palestinians want?

2010-02-18T18:51:00.001+01:00

Question:
When is it OK to demolish a Muslim graveyard in order to use the property to build factories, shops, banks and offices?
Answer:
When Muslims in Jerusalem want to make money. (Read the Palestine Post from November 22, 1945 for proof.)

Question:
When is it an insult against Islam to build on a derelict former parking lot that happens to be located beside a Muslim graveyard that is guaranteed preservation as a holy Muslim site for all time to come?
Answer:
When Jews in Jerusalem want to build a museum dedicated to inter-religious tolerance and cohesion. (Read also a press release on the subject by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as well as comments by Elder of Ziyon and Elder of Ziyon again for more detailed background.)

Palestinian Arab hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to exploiting every opportunity to express anti-Semitic feeling and to preventing any form of bridge-building in the name of tolerance, respect and peace.

The Israelis create, the Palestinians talk about creating (as far back as1945) but they actually create nothing. Instead, all their resources are invested in curtailing development and destroying potential – both their own and that of their Israeli neighbour.

There is one thing, however, that the Palestinians are good at creating – their own version of history. This explains why, more than 60 years later, they are still in the same situation today that they were back then.

In order to truly understand how they ever got themselves into this position in the first place, read their own explanation courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch of the creation of the Palestinian Arab refugee problem instead of a second Palestinian Arab nation alongside the original Palestinian Arab nation of Transjordan, later renamed Jordan.

In the Palestinian Arabs’ own words:

More than 60 ears on, the Palestinian Arabs still lack the will to admit the truth, recognise the cynical manipulations and historic miscalculations of their leaders and abandon their drive to dismantle the Jewish state of Israel. The creation of the second Palestinian Arab state in the Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria was simply never on the agenda, even though it encompassed the ethnic cleansing of all Jews at the same time as more than 20 percent of the population of the Jewish state consists of both Muslim and Christian Arabs. They always wanted and still want more.

How much more? The Palestinian Arabs do not agree for the Jews to have any part of the Jewish homeland at all. That is why it was regarded as perfectly acceptable to demolish a Muslim graveyard and build a commercial centre on its hallowed ground – if the plans were submitted by Muslims.

At the same time as it is regarded as an insult to build a museum dedicated to tolerance and peace beside a protected Muslim graveyard – if the plans are submitted by Jews.

Caroline Glick, Senior Contributing Editor at the Jerusalem Post, puts it very succinctly: the Palestinian Arabs do not want peace. They cannot afford to take any steps towards peace because that would automatically mean relinquishing their ultimate aim – the destruction of their Jewish neighbours. Read the exact words that Zahir Muhsein, PLO Executive Committee Member, uses to deny the existence of a Palestinian people whily detailing the strategy for destroying the Jewish state. This explains why the highly secular Palestinian Authority – already an entity without any legal standing according to Palestinian electoral legislation – is so keen to embrace religious bigotry if that weapon can be used against the Jewish state.

The Palestinians continue cementing the conflict into permanency through their disparaging, racist way of viewing and treating their Jewish neighbours. As a result, peaceful resolution and mutual respect are more distant prospects than ever before – even after more than 60 years.

The Palestinian Arabs and their Jewish neighbours deserve a far better fate.

To find out just how divorced the Palestinian Arab mainstream is from reality, read Barry Rubin's most recent article entitled "Why Isn't There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know How Much is Being Offered".

It's an eye-opener.

Relevant links from this blog:
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Get a Grip on the Facts
Look who supports a Palestinian state in place of Israel: is Sweden anti-Semitic?
Swedish foreign minister represents Palestine
Pop quiz for peace
Reality Check for the EU
Swedish Foreign Minister’s Crusade against the Jewish State
Double-dealing or mere incompetence?

Olika regler för olika religioner

2010-02-17T12:36:00.003+01:00

Fråga:
När är det OK att skövla en muslimsk begravningsplats för att bygga fabriker, affärer, banker och kontor i dess ställe?
Svar:
När muslimer i Jerusalem vill tjäna pengar. (Läs Palestine Post, 22 november 1945 för beviset.)

Fråga:
När är det en skymf mot islam att bygga på en öde före detta parkeringsplats som ligger bredvid en muslimsk begravningsplats, som därigenom kommer att skyddas som helig muslimsk mark för all framtid?
Svar:
När judar i Jerusalem vill bygga ett museum tillägnad interreligiös tolerans och samlevnad. (Läs också här, här och här för detaljerad bakgrund.)

Det palestinska hyckleriet känner inga gränser när det gäller att till varje pris och i varje sammanhang ge uttryck för antisemitiska känslor och förhindra brobyggande i fredens och toleransens namn.

Israelerna skapar, palestinierna talar om att skapa (redan 1945) men gör inget. Istället läggs alla resurser på att förstöra utveckling – den egna såväl som den israeliska grannens.

En sak är dock palestinierna bra på att skapa – sin egen version of historia. Det förklarar varför de palestinska araberna fortfarande efter mer än 60 befinner sig i samma situation nu som då.

För att riktigt förstå hur de överhuvudtaget hamnade i denna situation från första början, läs deras egen förklaring till uppkomsten av palestinskt flyktingskap istället för palestinsk nationsbyggande.

Och i de palestinska arabernas egna ord:

60 år senare saknar palestinierna fortfarande viljan att se sanningen i vitögat, erkänna sina ledares historiska missbedömningar och skapa grunden för en palestinsk-arabisk stat sida vid sida med Israel. Det räcker inte att det tilltänkta Palestina är etniskt rensat från judar, levande såväl som döda, medan drygt 20 procent av den judiska staten Israels befolkning består av muslimska och kristna araber.

Palestinierna vill helt enkelt inte att judarna ska få något land alls. Därför är det helt OK att skövla en muslimsk begravningsplats och bygga affärer i dess ställe om planerna läggs fram av muslimer.

Medan det är en förolämpning om det byggs ett museum i toleransens och samlevnadens tecken bredvid en skyddad muslimsk begravningsplats, om planerna läggs fram av judar.

Palestinierna permanenterar konflikten genom detta nedvärderande sätt att betrakta och behandla sina judiska grannar. Det gör att en fredlig lösning och ömsesidig respekt blir allt mer avlägsen - även efter mer än 60 år.

De palestinska araberna och deras judiska grannar är värda ett långt bättre öde än detta.

Relevanta länkar från denna blogg:
Palestina fanns - men finns inte idag på grund av de palestinska araberna
Jerusalem i blickfånget - vad gäller?
Carl Bildt skapar internationell turbulens
Bokmässan kapad
Västbanken i förtroendekris
Telefon som vapen
Oproportionerlig tystnad

Integration är för viktig för att missbrukas för vänsterpopulistiskt röstfiskeri

2010-02-16T23:14:00.005+01:00

Det märks att det är valår i år.

Det märks inte minst på att extremvänstern och dess kollaboratorer ökar sina ansträngningar i populistiska frågor som invandring och integration.

Peter Weiderud på socialdemokratiska Broderskapsrörelsen, till exempel, anser att ingen mindre än Integrationsministern Nyamko Sabuni – själv med invandrarbakgrund – bidrar till ”polarisering” genom att hon gett SÄPO i uppdrag att kartlägga militant islamism i Sverige.

Weiderud anser att kartläggning av militant islamism bidrar till islamofobi. Förutom hos islamisterna och extremvänstern torde han vara rätt ensam om den åsikten.

De flesta svenskar med invandrarbakgrund delar inte Weideruds åsikt. Läs till exempel Nalin Pekgul, Gulan Avci och Dilsa Demirbag-Sten. De vill inte ha med militant islamism att göra. Militant islamism är påfallande ofta en av anledningarna till att muslimer flyr sina födelseländer.

Weiderud anklagar Sabuni för att ”utmåla både islam och muslimer som opålitliga och farliga”. Det är ett egendomligt påstående. Weiderud tycks sakna grundläggande kunskaper i skillnaden mellan religionen islam och den politiska rörelsen islamism. Han tycks anse att eftersom de två orden har så många gemensamma bokstäver är även företeelserna samma.

Samtidigt som Weiderud sammanblandar islam med islamism, sammanblandar han även Folkpartiet med Kristdemokraterna och Sverigedemokraterna: han skriver, utan minsta tillstymmelse till ironi: ”Ändå tillhör Genève de mer toleranta kantonerna och majoriteten förkastade det förslag att förbjuda minareter som de schweiziska motsvarigheterna till sverigedemokrater och kristdemokrater lyckades få en betryggande majoritet av schweizarna att rösta för - mot alla andra partier.”

Han medger att det är rätt att Säpo ”sedan många år, och som en del i sitt självklara ansvar för rikets säkerhet, kartlagt och följt religiösa extremister som är våldsbenägna”.

Men Weiderud är kritisk till att Säpo har ”begränsat sig endast till extrema muslimska bekännare, inte kristna eller andra religiösa extremister”.

Sitter Weiderud inne med något som inte Säpo vet om våldsbenägna kristna, judiska, hinduiska eller sikhiska politiska grupper som planerar, finansierar, tränar för och förespråkar terrorism som hotar Sverige och/eller andra demokratiska stater? I så fall bör han genast underrätta det svenska säkerhetsetablissemanget då undanhållande av sådan information kan vara straffbart.

Det problematiska med Broderskapsrörelsens synsätt är att man tycks anse att enda sättet att angripa en sjukdom är genom att döda hela kroppen. För att kunna bemöta våldsbenägenheten bland svenska islamister vill rörelsen att samhället i rättvisans namn även slösar bort resurser på att bevaka svenskar som inte är våldsbenägna islamister. Det är ett utslag av politisk korrekthet in absurdum. Adam Cwejman skriver mycket insiktsfullt att Peter Weiderud är en del av problemets fortlevnad i Sverige.

Weiderud skriver i den socialdemokratiska Broderskapsrörelsens namn att ”dagens Europa (riktar sig) i hög grad mot muslimer, i synnerhet muslimer som vill praktisera sin tro och sina traditioner”.

Det är naturligtvis fel, ett påstående helt utan belägg. Moskéer och muslimska skolor byggs samt byggs ut som aldrig förr. Vare sig Sverige eller Europa har något problem med muslimer eller deras religion islam. Däremot är den politiska rörelsen islamism ett tilltagande problem.

Weiderud tycks inte ha märkt den tilltagande råa tonen från den svenska socialdemokratins Ilmar Reepalu och den växande islamistiska rörelsen i Malmö vars våld och hat riktas mot svenska judar. Han tycks inte heller ha noterat att TV4 uppmärksammar att Malmös judar flyr staden – som resultat av islamisternas och socialdemokraten Reepalus framfart i staden.

Invandring, integration och bejakande av det multietniska nya är alldeles för allvarliga – och för komplicerade – ämnen för att Broderskapsrörelsen ska försöka kortsiktigt kapa åt sig politiska poäng inför valet.

Vi är många i Sverige som tänker betydligt långsiktigare än så. Vi är många invandrare som inser att integration och assimilering inte nödvändigtvis är samma sak, men som också inser att det är kontraproduktivt att anklaga en invandrarminister som själv är invandrare för att ”utmåla både islam och muslimer som opålitliga och farliga”.

Sådana populistiska uttalanden skrämmer medborgarna in i varsitt hörn istället för att inbjuda till gemensam dialog.

Dialog är det enda sättet för ett samhälle att utvecklas. Nyamko Sabuni bedömer helt korrekt att dialog bara kan upprätthållas om Säpo håller i schack våldsbenägna islamister som är ett lika stort hot mot svenska muslimer som de är mot övriga svenskar.

Broderskapsrörelsen borde tänka på Sverige, inte på att vinna nästa svenska val.

Målet borde vara mer integration, inte fler röster.

And the winner is...

2010-02-15T12:05:00.000+01:00

What’s in a name?

A whole lot, actually.

Radical Islamists deliberately blur the distinction between “Judaism” and “Zionism”, and between “Jew” and “Israeli”.

They do so as part of their focused drive to demonise the Jewish faith and Jewish ethnicity and to engender an atmosphere in which all Jews everywhere are regarded as legitimate prey. It is not because of the existence of the Jewish state of Israel that they hate the Jews – it is because of the country’s Jewish ethnicity and religion that they hate Israel. Radical Islamists are, quite simply, anti-Semites.

Either way, Jews the world over pay the price for Islamist anti-Semitism.

In the civilized world there is also a corresponding need to draw an important distinction. The terms “Muslim”, “Islam” and “Islamism” are often used interchangeably. That is inappropriate.

The term “Muslim” refers solely to a follower of the Muslim faith. The word speaks volumes about the person’s religion but nothing about his or her political affiliations.

“Islam” is the religion that Muslims follow. Here too there is no qualifier, it is simply a statement about the person’s religious adherence.

“Islamism”, on the other hand, is a political movement clothed for tactical reasons in the religious symbols of Islam. It represents hunger for worldly power and all the trappings of that power, disguised and indeed shielded behind a veneer of religion – Islam.

It is always necessary to draw a distinction between on the one hand Muslims/Islam, and on the other hand the international movement to hijack both the people and their religion for political power – Islamism.

Few countries are today immune from the parasitic outgrowth from Islam that is Islamism. It is a violent, aggressive political movement that protects itself from criticism through the tried and trusted human-shield approach, by labelling all resistance to political Islamism as “anti-Muslim sentiment” or “Islamophobia” – a word coined specifically to give a sheen of pseudo-academic credibility to the animosity prompted by Islamism itself. Nobody likes being regarded as a bigot so Islamists are largely left to get on with their agenda. Political Correctness has emerged as the new religion of the West, and it is blinding the West to the rise of Islamism, an aggressive political ideology clothed for protection in Islam.

Remarkably, few interlocutors in the West seem to question why Muslims always seem to be represented by Islamists.

Islamism has a subversive agenda whose aim is the establishment of the “Caliphate” – the global spread of a particular brand of Islam that demands forcible conversion to Islam and the utter subservience of all who at their personal peril remain non-believers. Read "The Restoration of the Caliphate" on DallasCarter.net if you want to find out more about what a Caliphate entails - this article in turn has many very useful links.

No country is immune, and no society is immune.

The view from the quiet backwater of Sweden is a case in point. What happens in Sweden today will be happening in your home tomorrow.

In fact, in many countries, it already is. Read on.

Start off by reading the following article from Islamist Watch (http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2010/02/muslims-confront-islamism-get-targeted-by)

Muslims Confront Islamism, Get Targeted by Islamists

by David J. Rusin • Feb 14, 2010

French imam Hassen Chalghoumi recently learned firsthand that Islamists despise non-Islamist Muslims as much as they do anyone else. Chalghoumi attracted their ire by coming out strongly in favor of a ban on face-covering veils, a prohibition that is moving closer to reality. Echoing President Nicolas Sarkozy, he described the niqab as a "prison for women, a tool of sexist domination and Islamist indoctrination" that "has no place in France." Moreover, he explained:

Having French nationality means wanting to take part in society, at school, at work. But with a bit of cloth over their faces, what can these women share with us? If they want to wear the veil, they can go to a country where it's the tradition, like Saudi Arabia.

Islamist reaction to his comments was swift and fierce, with a gang of nearly a hundred men storming his Paris mosque during a meeting of an organization focused on interfaith relations:

"They started to cry 'Allah akbar' and 'God is great,'" recounted Chalghoumi. "Then they insulted me, my mosque, the Jewish community, and the [French] republic. They left after an hour and a half."

According to a member of the Conference of Imams, the mob condemned Chalghoumi as an apostate and threatened him with "liquidation, this imam of the Jews."

Chalghoumi is not the only moderate risking "liquidation." Abadirh Abdi Hussein, a Muslim rapper in Sweden, had his head slashed by attackers displeased with his outspoken opposition to al-Shabaab, which has been recruiting young men to join the jihad in Somalia. And, as IW noted in January, Majed Moughni received a death threat after organizing a demonstration by Detroit-area Muslims to denounce the attempted Christmas Day airplane bombing.

Undeterred by this atmosphere of intimidation, many other Muslims have gone on offense against radicalism in recent months. Among them:

•The Muslim Canadian Congress called on lawmakers to ban the niqab, declaring it a "political issue promoted by extremists" that "has absolutely no place in Canada."

•A plan, now canceled, by the radical group Islam4UK to march through an English town known for honoring fallen soldiers earned the very public wrath of numerous Muslims.

•The liberal Norwegian Muslim group LIM (which stands for "equality, integration, diversity" in that nation's language) challenged fellow Muslims to rally in defense of free speech after Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home was attacked.

•Minhaj-ul-Quran, a Sufi Muslim organization operating in the UK, issued a fatwa against suicide bombings, labeling them "totally un-Islamic" and "violations of human rights."

As the above examples suggest, at the core of the resurgent jihad is a conflict between an authoritarian interpretation of Islam and a more spiritual, secular interpretation. The fate of two worlds — the Western and the Islamic — will be shaped profoundly by the outcome.

Interesting links:
Daniel Pipes:
The danger within: Militant Islam in America
Militant about Islam
Islamism 2.0
Telling Friend from Foe
Fighting Militant Islam, Without Bias

Melanie Phillips:
London still a hub of Islamic terror
Londonistan is still the weakest link
Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists

Islamist Watch
Phil Dickens - Dissecting political and militant Islam
Free Republic
Jihad Watch
Europe News

MSNBC
Israel Insider - Militant Islam plays for keeps
American Diplomacy - Problems, Problems and the Real Problems
ABC News

Barry Rubin: Radical Islamism - an introductory primer
Barry Rubin on The Race to Militancy
Israpundit - Barry Rubin: Turkey
MERIA - Islamism in Sudan
Global Politican - Sweden learns that appeasement doesn't pay

Boston.com
Newsmax.com - G Russel Evans: Militant Islam is still enemy no. 1
Examiner.com
The Local - Swedish publication in English with a range of articles on various aspects of Islamism in Sweden
Islamization Watch

Relevant articles from this blog:
The Muslim view of Islamists
Code red in Malmö
Humanity, human rights and contempt for fellow human beings
Swedish democracy falters in Malmö
Moderation through the eyes of Islamists

Medierna noterar hatklimatet mot judar i Sverige

2010-02-14T17:04:00.001+01:00

TV4 ska ha en eloge.

Äntligen en nyhetskanal som vågar ta upp ett problem som växer år från år.

Den muslimska antisemitismen. Det vill säga omotiverat hat mot judar just för att de är judar.

Som grupp är judar bland de äldsta invandrarna i det moderna Sverige.

Judarna hotas av de nyaste invandrarna i det moderna Sverige - folk från den arabiska och övriga muslimska världen.

Långt ifrån alla araber och muslimer hyser vedervärdiga rasistiska tankar om judar i det Sverige där vi idag båda lever. Men de araber och muslimer som tycker annorlunda hörs tyvärr sällan eller aldrig. Och hörs deras ledare, är det tyvärr påfallande ofta med ett "men" som någon sorts bortförklaring.

Rasism ska inte kunna bortförklaras.

Det är ett problem som är lika stort som politikernas tystnad i ämnet.

Om vi undantar politiska begåvningar som Ilmar Reepalu, Per Gahrton och Lars Ohly.

Det är fullständigt oacceptabelt att beskylla muslimer i Sverige bara för att vissa muslimer slaktar civila i Irak, eller som igår i Indien, eller för att islamister spränger bort ovärderliga kulturskatter i form av buddhastatyer i Afghanistan, eller för att bedjande kristna mördas mitt under gudstjänst i sina kyrkor i Pakistan och Egypten, eller för att islamister begår folkmord i Darfur, eller för att den muslimska Sharialagen verkställer halshuggning och stympning i Saudiarabien, eller för att könsstympning utövas på småflickor i Sudan.

Dessa aktioner är förkastliga. Utan "om" och "men".

Lika förkastligt skulle det vara att beskylla någon enda svensk muslim för dessa vidrigheter som hans eller hennes religionsfränder gör i främmande länder. Utan "om" och "men".

Länkar:
FiM - Ilmar Reepalu angriper Malmös judar
Jihad i Malmö - Judar flyr Sveriges Gaza
MXp - True Face of Islam i Storbritannien
MXp - Judehatet i Sverige liknar antisemitismen i tyskt 30-tal
SII - Sydsvenskan/Ilmar Reepalu

There IS justice in this world.

2010-02-14T12:28:00.001+01:00

Well, at least there is in the UK.

In Britain, Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker, hopped on the Swedish blood-libel bandwagon set in motion by Donald Boström (read also here, here, here, here and here).

Of course, they were far from alone. Al Jazeera, Iran, Syria, Egypt and countless others in the Arab and Islamic worlds all subscribed to the Boström/Tonge conspiracy theory whereby any allegation, however vile and unsubstantiated, may be leveled at the Jewish state of Israel with the demand that Israel should then spend its time and resources proving the allegations wrong. It is a deliberate strategy designed to slowly bleed the Jewish state to death through litigation, slander and diverted resources while inexorably stripping the nation of its legitimacy in the public consciousness.

From the viewpoint of morality it is the absolute opposite of that most fundamental tenet of western democracy – the presumption of innocence. It is a belief system that is applied universally in enlightened Western societies – except when it comes to the Jewish state.

Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg has now sacked Jenny Tonge for her outrageous and unsubstantiated allegations that the Israel Defense Forces went to Haiti not to provide desperately needed aid in the aftermath of the catastrophe that tore the country apart, but merely to harvest human organs. Tonge's allegations were all the more bizarre bearing in mind her position in the Liberal Democrats as party health spokesman – a position designed to add weight to the slander.

Before she was removed from office, Baroness Tonge never saw fit in her official capacity as spokesperson on health issues to comment on the numerous documented cases of organ harvesting involving Palestinian Arabs. Of course, these cases of organ harvesting took place in the Muslim and Arab state of Jordan, rendering them automatically of no interest to her agenda. She also never either managed to issue a statement on the documented illegal traffic in human organs in the Muslim and Arab state of Egypt.

Commenting on what some might call the racist nature of Tonge's selectivity, party leader Nick Clegg said that Tonge’s remarks were “wrong, distasteful and provocative”. Baroness Tonge is hopefully now at her local Job Centre looking for work that does not involve verbal skills.

Hats off to Nick Clegg.

Justice of a totally different sort was dispensed this past week by Palestinian President-unelect Mahmoud Abbas.

According to the Palestinian constitution, his time at the helm passed its sell-by date some time ago but Abbas still keeps a firm grasp of the reins. Determined to put on a good show for the West, which via unfathomable – and often largely non-transparent – EU and UN funding bankrolls a Palestinian society not required to work, study, construct permanent housing, produce goods, stop systematic racist indoctrination or in any way contribute to the betterment of that society, Abbas recently appointed former Fatah intelligence official Mr Fahmi Shabaneh to investigate and stamp out corruption in official Palestinian society (i.e.Fatah).

Mr Shabaneh, who used to head the anti-corruption unit of the Palestinian GIS (General Intelligence Service), was however coerced into quitting his job after he uncovered several cases of financial, administrative and sexual corruption among PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s closest allies.

Thanks to his diligence in doing the job President Abbas asked him to do, Mr Shabaneh has now been accused of “collaboration with Israel” and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. The accusations against Shabaneh come from none other than PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party, and the warrant for Shabaneh’s arrest for uncovering the corruption has been issued by the same Fatah – which runs the PA government led by Mahmoud Abbas.

Out with the old, in with the ... well, same-old-same-old, really.

Transparency and justice usually go hand in hand.

In the UK as in any other civilized society that’s the way it works.

On the other hand we have the Palestinian Authority. Paid for by us.

For additional references on the disproved organ harvesting slander:
National Post
Seattle Times
Bellingham Herald
Israel National News
Huffington Post
Pro Kerala
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Solomonia
Astute Blogger
New English Review
Free Republic
Ynet
United Jerusalem

For additional references on the case of disgraced Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge:
Telegraph
Telegraph
Ynet
Congoo
Solomonia
Discarded Lies
Gazette Live
Ealing Gazette
Mirror
Daily Mail
Daily Express
Liverpool Echo
Newsbag
Israel Matzav
World BB News
India Times

2922 is less than 22

2010-02-13T20:47:00.000+01:00

In December 2008, Operation Cast Lead saw Israel finally respond to 2922 days of constant missile barrages from the Gaza Strip – up to 50 missiles a day – aimed at Israeli towns, villages, hospitals, schools, power stations and factories.

The Israeli response to these 2922 days of Palestinian Arab aggression lasted 22 days. Much of the outside world – led by UN-funded judge and jury Richard Goldstone – lamented the disproportionate nature of the Israeli response.

This wasn’t exquisite sarcasm – they genuinely felt that 22 days of Jewish response to 2922 days of Islamist aggression was disproportionate.

The Goldstone Commission – paid for by our tax dollars – roundly condemned the Jewish state for its response to the existential attacks it suffered from right across its border. The US and the UK governments were among the countries most vociferous in their condemnation of Israel’s violent armed response.

Today the US and UK are involved in a massive war. Not on their own borders like Israel was and still is, but thousands of kilometres away.

In fact on a totally different continent. Afghanistan is in Asia, for heaven’s sake.

There is, however, no condemnation by the US and UK governments of the violence in which their own troops are engaged – in a conflict which is far removed from their own shores. On the contrary, President Barack Hussein Obama, who came to power pledging to end US involvement in foreign conflicts, added a further 30,000 US troops to the overseas force to continue a US war far removed from US borders.

Like the US, the UK has a huge troop presence not only in Afghanistan but in Iraq too. It needs to be reiterated: neither of these countries has a border with either the US or UK.

The sheer hypocrisy, the glaring insincerity, the inconsistent double-standards are staggering.

Has Richard Goldstone been brought in to investigate US and UK violence on a country far removed from US and UK shores? He was, after all, brought in to investigate Israel’s response to the 10,000 missiles fired by the Islamist regime in Gaza at civilian Israeli communities over a period of eight long years.

It isn’t going to happen.

Meantime, we continue paying for America’s and Britain’s wars far from home – while Israel is routinely condemned for protecting itself at home.

Useful links:
Jerusalem Post
CNN
Independent
Independent
Washington Post
Washington Times
Boston.com
Huffington Post
Xinhua.net
Reuters
BBC
ABC
Economist
Telegraph
CBS
New Kerala
Sindh Today
The Statesman/India
Big News Network
Cleveland.com
VOA
Yahoo News
Hispanic Business
Guardian

Related links from this website:
What's in a phone call?
Sweden on its way to becoming the first Islamic republic in Europe
The UN Human Rights Council: the best purchase the Arab world has ever made
Operation Rescue Sweden: a legal precedent
The music dies out as the West stumbles towards its destiny
Put an end to UNRWA's occupation of Palestine
UNRWA versus UNHCR - a revealing comparison

What’s in a phone call?

2010-02-12T16:33:00.001+01:00

A whole lot, actually.
At least, it is if you’re one of our Palestinian Arab “partners for peace” and you have now taken to using your phone to torment Jewish police officers.

Judea and Samaria Police nowadays field up to 40,000 phone calls a month from Palestinian Arabs who hurl crude abuse at the officers. The police manning the switchboards are trained not to respond in kind but to instead hang up the phone when they receive crank calls of this nature.

But whatever you do, don’t tell Richard Goldstone about the aggressive and disproportionate Zionist response because he’ll immediately appeal to the UN for additional millions out of our hard-earned tax dollars and set up a commission to condemn the Israeli police officers for hanging up the phone while they are being abused. After all, the torrent of naked abuse might just be a precursor to the caller’s wish to report that his cat is stuck up a tree, or that he suspects his neighbour hasn’t paid his TV licence fee.

Improbable, but possible. Which in UN-speak would probably translate into “definitely worth protecting and funding from public money as a human right specific only to Palestinian Arabs unto the ninth generation”.

But let’s be creative: all calls to the police should be automatically charged at a rate of say NIS 100 per call. Bona fide calls to the police will automatically result in this sum being immediately reimbursed to the caller’s phone account – the process will take a nanosecond – whereas any bogus call prompting the police to hang up will mean that the fee is applied in full.

Israel leads the world in software development. Any high-school kid could develop the software needed to run this application.

All proceeds could go towards the cost of extending the security barrier.

Telefon som vapen?

2010-02-12T16:29:00.001+01:00

Absolut – om du är palestinsk arab.

Och inte bara som ett sätt att utlösa en bomb.

Israels palestinsk-arabiska ”partners i fred” använder numera sina telefoner för att ringa den israeliska polisen och skrika grovt rasistiskt hat och rikta personangrepp mot dem.

Välformulerade, litterärt genomtänkta och mogna funderingar såsom ”jag ska sätta på din mamma/syster/fru”. Denna epidemi av grova samtal gör att genuina samtal från nödställda inte alltid kommer fram.

Polisen hanterar idag uppemot 40 000 av dessa telefonsamtal i månaden från palestinska araber. Poliserna som bemannar telefonväxeln har fått träning och instruktion i hanteringen av dessa samtal – de får inte besvara dem på något sätt utan bara lägga på luren.

Vad ni än gör, tala nu inte om för Richard Goldstone att den sionistiska regimen aggressivt och oproportionerligt lägger på luren enbart när palestinska araber ringer. För då kommer Goldstone att omgående vända sig till FN med krav på ytterligare flera miljoner dollar av våra beskattade medel. Med målet att sätta ihop en undersökningskommission vars ansvar begränsas till att skyldigförklara de israeliska poliserna som lägger på luren enbart när palestinska araber ringer. Dessa grova, rasistiska haranger som de judiska poliserna får höra kanske bara är den inledande hälsningsfrasen som föregår ett genuint polisärende, som att en katt sitter fast i ett träd i Hebron, eller att någon granne i Ramallah inte har betalat sin TV-lisens.

Otrolig, men möjlig. Vilket på FN-språk betyder ”definitivt värt att skydda med offentliga statliga medel som en mänsklig rättighet som tillfaller enbart palestinska araber och ingen annan, fram till nionde generation”.

Men vet ni vad? Låt oss vara lite kreativa. Alla samtal till polisen bör automatiskt belastas med motsvarande 200 kronor per samtal. Genuina samtal innebär att denna summa automatiskt och i sin helhet omgående återbetalas till uppringaren. Hela processen tar någon nanosekund och sker obemärkt. Alla rasistiska samtal som slutar med att polisen lägger på luren betyder att avgiften tillämpas i sin helhet.

Israel leder världen i mjukvaruutveckling. Vilken gymnasieelev som helst i Sderot skulle kunna skriva programmet som behovs för telefonsystemet.

Alla inkomster från palestiniernas doneringsiver bör gå till en speciell fond för att bygga ut säkerhetsbarriären.

Interview with Israel's ambassador to India, Mark Sofer

2010-02-11T19:13:00.003+01:00

In early February 2010, I conducted a telephone interview with Mr Mark Sofer, Israel’s ambassador to India. Mr Sofer’s previous diplomatic service included Norway, so he is also well acquainted with the Scandinavian scene.

The interview covers a wide range of topics – the 2000 year old history of the Jews in India, the remarkable transformation in relations between India and Israel in recent years, the close and growing contacts between the two countries in areas such as agriculture, industry, finance, cultural exchange, homeland security and much more.

One of the most interesting points Ambassador Sofer raises is the total absence of anti-Semitism in Indian culture, from 2000 years ago to today.

Click here to listen!

Links to the Israel Embassy in India and interesting articles in the Indian press:

Israel Embassy in New Delhi, India

Hindustan Times: Israel-India Ties Emerge Stronger

The Hindu: A Terrorist is a Terrorist is a Terrorist

The Pioneer: A War We Can't Afford to Lose

ZEE News India Edition: Cooperation to Improve Water Management

Web India: Healthy Bi-Lateral Trade Between Israel and India

The Hindu/Business Line: Israel Sets Up Dairy in Andhra Pradesh

Indian Express: India, Israel Discuss Free Trade Pact

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Jerusalem in Focus (in Swedish)

The Palestinians want neither Partnership nor Peace

2010-02-11T17:56:00.001+01:00

Israel has a partner for peace in the Palestinian Authority (PA).

That’s why a police officer belonging to the PA yesterday murdered an Israeli sitting in his vehicle at the traffic lights by stabbing him in the chest with a knife.

The PA terrorist, whose salary is paid by the EU, whose freedom of movement is protected by the UN, whose weapons are paid for by the Arab states and whose training is provided by the US, was quickly apprehended by a nearby civilian security guard who stopped the fleeing fugitive by bumping into him with his car, stunning the murderer sufficiently to give the guard time to hold him until security personnel arrived and arrested him. The terrorist suffered some bruising in his fall to the ground.

We’re waiting now for the UN Security Council to debate the issue of unlawful use of motorized vehicles by the Zionist State, and for the Arab world to propose a motion to boycott any company and country that sells motor vehicles to Israel.

Don’t laugh at the absurdity of such blatant one-sidedness – it’ll doubtless happen.

In fact, such one-sidedness is occurring right now. There is often serious discussion about the genocide in which 6 million Jews were slaughtered in the Holocaust just a few decades ago. The world promised solemnly “Never again”.

But as Professor Alan Dershowitz underscores in this persuasive video clip, at least another 6 million innocent civilians have been slaughtered in various genocides since that horrific period, almost exclusively in conflicts involving Muslim aggression, usually Muslim on Muslim aggression – and solely because the Arab world has succeeded in drawing our attention away from these horrors by focusing solely on demonizing Israel in the public arena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_A9ILHvrI

The UN has been hijacked, the media have been hijacked, our minds have been hijacked, our aircraft have been hijacked.

And the slaughter continues.

Never again? It’s happening every day.

In the meantime, we turn a blind eye, focusing on how best to penalize the world’s automobile manufacturers for supplying family cars to Jews who might use them to apprehend murderers.

Meantime, here’s some more encouraging news, this time from Israel’s southern border with Gaza. Hamas, Israel’s third Palestinian Arab partners for peace in addition to Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, are not content with engaging in human trafficking on a small scale. Kidnapping and illegally incarcerating Israeli teenager Gilad Schalit for more than three years is not enough, the Islamist regime wishes to replicate the success of this heroic mission by kidnapping more Jews for the honourable Islamist trade in human flesh.

This comes just a few days after the Egyptian Press Syndicate suspended an Egyptian journalist for the crime of speaking to Jews in Israel. The journalist, Mr Hussain Serag, felt that in order to write about Israel it would not be a bad idea to speak to a few Israelis by way of research so he would know what he was writing about. The Egyptian Press Syndicate, however, took a different view, preferring its members to write only about things of which they know nothing.

Makes perfect sense. In Egypt.

Jordan, meantime, is busy withdrawing Jordanian citizenship from thousands of Palestinian Arabs. 70 percent of Jordan’s population consists of Palestinian Arabs, making this country rightfully theirs. The Jordanian monarch’s grandfather ascended to the throne after being transplanted by the British from the sands of Arabia and installed as king over 80 percent of Mandate Palestine, in an artificially created country known as Transjordan, today Jordan.

Now Jordan wants to withdraw citizenship from the people who make up 70 percent of its population. Even the Palestinian Authority is critical of the move, which contradicts their fundamental human rights. However, seeing as the target of their criticism is Muslim, the Palestinian Arabs are very moderate in their choice of words. Just wonder what the wording would be like if Israel floated the idea of withdrawing citizenship from the 20 percent of its population that consists of Arab Muslims and Christians. An absurd idea in the Jewish state, of course, but apparently nothing is too absurd in the Arab world.

Still, don’t hold your breath waiting for this travesty of human rights abuse to be tabled for discussion at the UN, because that would require Arab acquiescence to such a debate. That won’t happen because the world’s 23 Arab states are way too busy vilifying the world’s sole Jewish state and are probably even now looking for ways to prevent the export of automobiles to the Zionist entity.

Israel is truly spoiled in its array of partners for peace.

Interesting link:
CAMERA writes about how Time Magazine dutifully plays its part in vilification of the Jewish state. In this article, the once-reputable publication does not float the idea of boycotting the export of automobiles to Israel - that will possibly come later - but instead demonises the Jewish state for its archaeological digs. Go figure.

Boycott the Jews. In Sweden.

2010-02-10T12:37:00.000+01:00

When blood-libels about organ-harvesting don’t work, it’s time to dust off that other weapon that has served racists so well for centuries: the boycott.

Not just any boycott.

A boycott solely against people of one single faith.

People who refuse to betray their own country.

And not just any people either. Academics. The leading thinkers of any democratic society, the progressives who embrace free thought as part and parcel of their pursuit of expertise.

No, we’re not talking about Egypt, whose Muslim majority routinely violate the human rights of the country’s 3 million Coptic Christians.

Neither are we talking about the Shia Muslims of Iraq who slaughter the Sunni Muslims of Iraq in the name of Islam. And vice versa.

Nor are we talking about the Muslim Palestinian Authority in the West Bank (the Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria where the Palestinian Arabs want to create a second Palestinian state alongside Jordan). In the West Bank, Christian Arabs living in the cradle of Christianity are so relentlessly pursued by their Muslim neighbours that their population in Bethlehem has dwindled to one-third its size in just one generation.

And of course we are not talking about the Gaza Strip, where ethnic cleansing got a head start with the removal of every single Jew, dead and alive, before the territory was handed over to the Gazans as a first step in the establishment of peace and a new nation. What the Muslim-majority Gazans did instead was to turn on the Christian minority, which has since been decimated.

When it comes to use of the boycott as a weapon against people of a single faith, we are, in fact, talking not about any of the above, but about Sweden.

KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, is organizing a “seminar to discuss the case for boycotting Israel”. Presenting the case for a boycott will be such leading lights of democracy and fidelity as Dror Feiler, a communist who renounced his Israeli citizenship and now campaigns in Sweden on behalf of terrorist organizations such as Hamas. He is regarded in many circles as a traitor. He is also President of European Jews for a Just Peace, an organization numbering almost a hundred people. He does not represent more than a handful of Jews in Sweden but is given widespread coverage by a media enchanted with the Palestinian narrative and deaf to any other.

At the KTH event, Associate Prof Jan-Erik Gustafsson will “report about the Birzeit group for international academic boycott”.

So it’s going to be a balanced, fair and above all representative exchange of views, then.

Interestingly, not a word is mentioned by these champions of human rights on the subject of China, which has occupied and annexed Tibet these past fifty years. Or Turkey, which committed unspeakable atrocities against the Armenians and still occupies Armenia. Neither is Russia mentioned, despite its continued occupation of Chechnya. The Kurds still do not have a country of their own and have been hounded over the centuries – yet another subject that KTH chooses not to highlight.

And that’s before we even mention that other paragon of democracy and enlightenment, Iran, which continues to trumpet its determination to erase Israel from the map and is pursuing the development of nuclear technology for that purpose.

The boycott supporters at KTH prefer not to delve into the legion human rights abuses occurring every day in the Palestinian territories – honour killings, systematized rapes of Christian women, the illegal incarceration of the one sole Jew still (hopefully) alive in Gaza – Gilad Schalit who was kidnapped from sovereign Israel three years ago and still held without access to the Red Cross, his family, legal representation (not that he is accused of anything apart from Judaism, a crime in Gaza), the summary executions of political opponents. None of this matters.

There is a considerable risk to constantly crying “anti-Semitism” every time something of a tacit anti-Semitic nature takes place. The term and its meaning risk being diluted.

There is however an even greater risk to ignoring anti-Semitic attacks when they occur in countries that are ostensibly democracies. Because it sets society on the slippery path to indifference. And we know where that leads. Ask the people of Cambodia, Darfur, Bosnia, Tibet, Armenia, Kurdistan. And the decimated Jews of Europe.

Interestingly enough, one of the participants at the KTH seminar is the Egyptian propaganda ministry. That may of course explain the utter silence on the plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.

It also raises interesting questions about how one of Sweden’s foremost educational establishments has been infiltrated by a foreign governmental agency with a murky agenda.

For an insight into how Egypt is perceived today, read this article by former Israeli ambassador to Egypt Mr Zvi Mazel.

And for an insight into how Sweden is perceived today, read this interview by Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld.

With Egyptian state infiltration into Swedish academia, Swedish state funding of various anti-Israel NGOs, and the total infiltration of UNRWA by various Palestinian Arab terrorist and criminal gangs, it is time to step back and ponder where we are headed in the Middle East.

Because constellations such as the Sweden/Egypt/Hamas/media/academia axis seem to be working cohesively outside the established policy structures.

The lack of transparency is worrying. Like now at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which demands that Jewish Israeli academics betray their country if they wish to be treated as equals.

It’s an echo of what Ilmar Reepalu, the mayor of Malmö in southern Sweden said recently: that only Swedish Jews who renounced all affiliations with Israel could reasonably be expected to live in peace and security in Sweden.

He made no corresponding demand on Swedish Muslims.

Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu may well be an honorary member of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

They certainly speak and act in sync.

Interesting link:
CAMERA reports that government-funded anti-Israel NGOs have been operating for many years.