The drip effect

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”?

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.
 
 
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Carl Bildts anti-israelisk politik skapar internationell turbulens

Sveriges utrikesminister Carl Bildt har blivit precis den katastrof för Sveriges anseende utomlands som man kunde förutse när denne bortglömde politisk föredetting dammades av och installerades i Utrikesministeriet.

Bildt utsågs av statsminister Fredrik Reinfeldt i utbyte mot stöd från den växande skara anti-israeliska extremister, islamister och andra fanatiker utan vilka ingen svensk regering idag kan regera om man har som mål att tillskansa sig röster.

Om en normal politisk verksamhet går ut på att dämpa motsättningarna till andra länder och bygga upp en vänskap där så är möjligt, har Carl Bildts politik haft rakt motsatta syften. Han har tagit varje tillfälle att mucka gräl med endast en stat, och en stat allena: den judiska staten Israel. Han har gjort det samtidigt som han medvetet blundat för groteska människorättsövertramp i samtliga arabländer samt Ryssland (som har fullständigt demolerat Tjetjenien) och Kina (som i mer än 50 år har våldtagit Tibet och utfört etnisk rensning på fler än 1 miljon tibetaner, som är fredliga buddhister).

Kontroversen kring Donald Boströms grundlösa, smaklösa och pressetiskt förkastliga Aftonbladsartikel i somras är ett av många exempel på Bildts hunger för anti-israelisk polemik. Han kunde ha lugnat en redan inflammerad stämning i Israel - en stämning som Bildt själv har skapat genom otaliga oprovocerade utfall mot den judiska staten - genom att säga några sansade ord om Sveriges respekt för Israels sårade känslor samtidigt som han åberopade den svenska pressfriheten. Istället tog han det anmärkningsvärda och föga diplomatiska steget att förhindra Sveriges Israelambassadör från att uttrycka sig lämpligt. Till och med JK fastställde att Bildts aktion var ogrundad och enbart avsedd att blidka politisk opinion i Sverige - en anti-israelisk opinion som Bildt själv varit med om att skapa.

Givetvis var Bildt väl medveten om att han behandlade Israel på ett diametralt motsatt sätt jämfört med hur han behandlade arabländernas sårade känslor när de uppfattade vissa inslag i de svenska medierna som kränkande. Den iver med vilket man från svenskt regeringshåll kritiserade en artikel i Aftonbladet som uppfattades som islamkritiskt, endast några få veckor efter att Aftonbladet publicerade sina grova anklagelser mot Israel, visar på en dubbelmoral av hisnande proportioner. Bildt hade heller inget att säga när hans konsul i östra Jerusalem, Anna Brodin, förespråkade öppna svenska kontakter med Hamas - en av EU terrorstämplad organisation.

Istället för att successivt dämpa attackerna ägnade sig Bildt åt att trappa upp konflikten genom offentligt stöd för den högst kontroversiella anti-israeliska Goldstonerapporten - en rapport som författaren Goldstone själv medger inte är värt papperet den är skriven på. Och som om inte detta räckte övergick Bildt till angrepp mot den judiska staten genom att kräva att dess huvudstad Jerusalem ska styckas och en del ges till det som eventuellt blir den andra palestinsk-arabiska staten, "Palestina", vid sida om Jordanien där redan 70 procent av befolkningen är palestinska araber. Som bekant upptar Jordanien 80 procent av Mandat-Palestina och var tänkt som hemland för de palestinska araberna.

Det verkar som om Bildt tävlar med en annan ökänd före-detting som även han inte vet när han bör lämna politiken och diplomatin åt dem som kan konsten - Jimmy Carter. En man som av amerikanerna själva har utsetts till den värsta amerikanska presidenten i historien. Bildt och Carter verkar tycka lika och verkar vara lika fast beslutna att se den judiska staten på sikt ersatt av ytterligare en palestinsk-arabisk stat - den andra i ordningen - tillika den 23:e arabiska staten i Mellanöstern, att lägga till de redan existerande 22 arabiska stater.

Att skapa ytterligare en palestinsk-arabisk stat möter inga hinder - inte ens i Israel. Israel har sedan 1948 sökt grannar med vilka man kan förhandla om gränser och med vilka man kan njuta normal grannsämja, precis som vi kan här i Norden.

Men att från Stockholm försöka diktera att delar av Israels huvudstad ska skänkas bort, och att bestämma var gränserna ska gå innan förhandlingarna mellan de berörda parterna ens kommer igång, är vare sig politiskt framkomlig eller diplomatiskt finkänsligt.

Men Carl Bildt behöver inte vara finkänslig när det gäller Israel. Han räknar kallsinnigt med att det är tämligen riskfritt att förolämpa den judiska staten, samtidigt som han går på tå för Israels muslimsk-arabiska grannländer - inklusive Jordanien som har en lag som säger att inga judar får lov att bo inom landets gränser. Håll nu inte andan i väntan på att Bildt tar upp en diskussion med Jordanien om etnisk rensning av judar - risken att dö av syrebrist är överhängande.

Det finns en liten skara svenska skribenter som anser att inget Israel gör kan någonsin vara rätt. Det är fundamentet i en verklighetsfrämmande politisk syn där man istället kryper för länder som Iran, Egypten, Libyen, Syrien och Saudiarabien.

I en artikel på Newsmill i våras krävde till exempel Ernst Klein en EU-bojkott av Israels utrikesminister Lieberman. Men inte någon bojkott av Sveriges utrikesminister Carl Bildt. Klein, bosatt i Sverige, anser att "För Israels egen skull bör han (Lieberman) så långt det går isoleras". Men Klein har inga kommentarer om den skada Carl Bildt orsakar gång efter annan med sin plumpa anti-israeliska besatthet.

Frågan många svenskar ställer är om inte Bildt redan gjort så grova övertramp på den diplomatiska scenen att statsminister Reinfeldt, för att få en chans att överleva valet senare i år, måste omedelbart avskeda honom och istället ge uppdraget att sköta landets utrikesförbindelser åt någon som vill förbättra Sveriges ställning i världen istället för att låta dem som vill försämra den fortsätta. En svensk utrikesminister med brinnande anti-israelisk iver, uppbackade av platsanställda som förespråkar intimt samarbete med terroristorganisationer, bådar inte gott för Sveriges anseende utomlands.

Eller för den nuvarande regeringens överlevnad.


Länkar från denna sajt:
JKs respons till Carl Bildt
Göran Lambertz och lagen talar emot Carl Bildt
Hur Sverige missbrukar olika NGOs för att strida mot Israel
Svenska skattebetalare finansierar Bildts krig mot Israel
Carl Bildt väljer selektiv tystnad
Sveriges osynliga utrikespolitik under Carl Bildt

Out with the old, in with the new. Maybe.

So 2009 has ended.

Here’s how it ended in Israel.

With a powerful missile fired from a civilian residential area in Gaza into a civilian residential area in Netivot, Israel.

Palestinian Arab President Mahmoud Abbas is the head of the Fatah political party. The rocket was fired from Hamas-controlled territory by the Al-Aqsa Brigade, a UN- and US-subsidized and trained Fatah military unit.

According to such leading lights of strategy and tactic as US president Barack Hussein Obama, EU ambassador to Israel Andrew Standley, the foreign minister of the current EU presidency Carl Bildt of Sweden, UNRWA commissioner Karen Abu-Zayd and others, Mahmoud Abbas is nonetheless to be regarded as a man of peace and his counterpart in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, is a misunderstood man who only wants prosperity for his people.

Here’s something none of the high-salaried EU and US potentates ever seem to consider: linking Gaza’s well-being to the freedom of kidnapped and illegally incarcerated Israeli Gilad Shalit. Shalit has now been in captivity for three and a half years for the crime of being Jewish in Israel, the world’s only Jewish state. He was kidnapped as a teenager from within sovereign Israel and has been held by the Palestinians’ Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh without access to a lawyer (not that he’s accused of anything), the International Red Cross (not that they’ve demanded Hamas honour the IRC’s internationally recognized right to see him), his family, his doctor, visits by Human Rights Watch (not that they’ve ever asked to visit him), the UN (which via UNRWA co-funds the entire Gaza regime of Ismail Haniyeh), the EU (which is the main donor bloc to UNRWA), or Sweden (which is the largest per capita donor to Palestinian Arab welfare in Gaza and as such pays to keep the regime in power. Read here and here and here about the professional anti-Zionist and often anti-Semitic campaign being waged with public funding in Sweden.). And visit aish.com to view Gilad Shalit’s father Noam’s appeal last spring on behalf of his son. Noam Shalit advocated and still advocates linking the massive aid to the Gaza regime to his son Gilad’s release from illegal captivity.

But the above publicly funded official organizations – they are funded by hard-working citizens’ tax revenues – are not interested in linking money to life. They want to keep funding the regime that engages in the ghoulish practice of human trafficking, while urging the Jewish State to release 1000 convicted Palestinian Arab mass-murderers in exchange for the life of Gilad Schalit.

No wonder then that the hard-line Palestinian Arab regimes in both Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) and the Gaza Strip (read here how women fare in the Gaza Strip) have no intention of backing down – they have all the financial and political backing they want from the international community. This is why Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas can use this massive foreign aid to pay convicted Palestinian Arab mass-murderers huge salaries and can express his confidence in continued terrorism by honouring one of the worst Palestinian Arab mass-murders in recorded history.

That was the note on which 2009 ended. There is every indication that 2010 will bring more of the same, only worse. However, there are some signs, albeit tentative, that 2010 might actually bring some improvement.

There is perhaps even a chance that politicians and the media might take a step back and look at the broader canvas, examining the plight of refugees in the entire Middle East and applying the same yardstick to all, including the countless Christian victims (read also about Christian bodies being disinterred in Gaza and a Reuters report on Muslim oppression of other religions) and Jewish victims and refugees of Muslim Arab aggression, oppression and violence.

Watch this slide show to find out more about the refugee problem that is never talked about – the 850,000 Jewish refugees escaping persecution in Arab lands.

The whole picture. Something that highly paid – and publicly funded – EU and US politicians might want to start considering. Assisted by the media. What a brave new world we might see then, one where the media actually start asking uncomfortable questions – which by definition means probing questions of the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Worlds which in the best traditions of Political Correctness have been exempt from any questioning at all.

This is the 1st of January 2010. We live in hope.

A legal precedent

The Jerusalem Post reports that The European Initiative, a new European pro-Israeli lobby, has filed a lawsuit in Belgium against Hamas leaders from Gaza and Damascus, demanding that they be brought to justice for war crimes.

About time too. The Belgian initiative is a welcome proactive move against terrorism and against support for intransigence, indoctrination, Islamism, fanaticism, extremism and terrorism the world over.

A similar initiative would do wonders in Sweden. Sweden has a history of antagonistic behaviour toward the Jewish state, including breach of contract and the welcoming terrorist Palestinian Arab leaders to its shores, and spends immense sums of taxpayer revenue reinforcing Palestinian Arab intransigence, which in turn promotes continued violence and bloodshed. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Swedish citizens have been the victims of Palestinian Arab terrorism in Israel, and Jewish citizens of Sweden have long been made to pay the price for successive Swedish governments that have signally failed to adopt a firm stance against Islamist-inspired anti-Semitism and extremist Left-wing anti-Zionism. This writer has been on the receiving end of rockets from Islamist terror organisation Hizbullah while in Haifa and Islamist terror organisation Hamas while in Sderot.

A call by the imam of the Grand Mosque in Stockholm to kill Jews as a result of the conflict in the Middle East was ignored by the judiciary and the government.

Repeated gross anti-Semitic allegations by extreme Left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet over unfounded claims of systematic Israeli Army organ trafficking were ignored by the judiciary and the government. Even Britain's Guardian newspaper, scarcely the Jewish state's most avid supporter, has the decency to back off from Aftonbladet-esque headlines. Not so Aftonbladet.

Foreign Minister Carl Bildt’s psychotic obsession with the Jewish state has been ignored by the judiciary and the government. He adopted a remarkably aggressive stance on the organ trafficking debacle and then invested the entire resources of his office and his (admittedly fast-dwindling) personal prestige in trying to push the EU to recommend the partitioning of Jerusalem – while at the same time celebrating the reunification of Berlin…

Every year, Sweden diverts vast sums of money from its state coffers, routing these funds away from Swedish schools, Swedish hospitals, Swedish jobs, Swedish infrastructure, even the well-being of Swedish children, and instead using these hard-earned resources for non-transparent, under-the-table foreign-policy strategies via a host of shady NGOs such as SIDA, Diakonia, Forum Syd, ISM, the Swedish Church and so on – all with the aim of subverting the Jewish state. It is a parallel foreign policy about which few Swedes know anything – for the simple reason that it is filed as charity and is therefore virtually invisible. The point is that this pursuit of an invisible and parallel foreign policy is ignored by the judiciary and the government because it is waged privately from the Swedish foreign ministry, albeit with VERY public funding.

Time therefore for a proactive Swedish initiative along the same lines. If you have the funding and/or the expertise to help in this matter, get in touch.

It’s time to put things right in Sweden. The vast majority of Swedes are fed up to the gills with having their already shaky finances abused, their enviable and highly deserved reputation trashed and their energy exploited by shady individuals with murky agendas whose sole merit is that they are in powerful places, whether in the media or in public office.

Rescue Sweden. Before an entire nation is hijacked. It’s been done many times before.

Attack Bildt but not Sweden

The following is the English version of an article published in Israeli weekly Makor Rishon by Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).

The recent Swedish proposal to the European Union to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state was a severe hostile act against Israel. The proposal was watered down by other member countries. The attitude of Sweden which, for another few weeks, holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, may tempt Israel to hit back at the country’s government.

For several reasons, however, this strategy would be wrong. The anti-Israel campaign is led by one person, the Swedish Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who is the dominant figure in this government. Rather than targeting the entire government or country, Israel should focus on its major adversary in the current coalition.

Bildt’s hostile record toward Israel can be easily proved. On a Swedish radio program in April he said: “It is possible to make peace without Hamas the same way it is possible to make peace without Netanyahu on the Israeli side.” An Israeli Foreign Ministry official reacted diplomatically: “He clearly does not understand the difference between the leader of an Israeli political party and a group that is engaging in the terror that threatens Europe as much as Israel.”(1)

Bildt’s anti-Israeli sentiment came to the fore again in the Aftonbladet organ affair. In August this anti-Israeli daily published an article which accused Israel of killing Palestinians in order to acquire organs for transplant. Bildt refused to condemn it, saying that there is freedom of the press in Sweden and that the government therefore cannot condemn the press. When, however, a few weeks later, Aftonbladet published an article by a member of the right wing Sweden Democrats party, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt condemned it. Suddenly, when Israel was not concerned, it was permissible to criticize the same paper.

Ilya Meyer, a writer who has held senior positions in the Swedish Jewish community, has a blog which reports regularly – in both English and Swedish – on Sweden’s misbehavior toward Israel. He notes that the Swedish state finances almost the entire $6 million budget of an extreme pro-Palestinian group in the country, Palestinagrupperna. This body has links to various terrorist organizations. In an annual report Palestinagrupperna claimed that Bildt had told them that he agrees with them on every point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.(2)

There are many friends of Israel in the four parties currently in the Swedish government – the Moderates, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and the Center Party. However, the present coalition is severely trailing the opposition in the most recent polls.(3) New parliamentary elections will take place in September 2010.

The opposition consisting of the Social Democrats, Sweden’s largest party, the Green Party and the Left Party is far more hostile to Israel than the present government, with the main exception of Bildt.

During the Gaza Campaign Mona Sahlin, the leader of the Social Democrats, participated in an anti-Israel rally in Stockholm(4) at which Hizballah and Hamas flags were flown and an Israeli flag was burned.(5) Jan Eliasson, the former foreign minister,(6) and Wanja Lundby Wedin, chair of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation,(7) also took part in that event.

Many senior party members participated in such demonstrations. In Norrköping, an ex-parliamentarian and former party secretary of the Social Democrats, Lars Stjernkvist, spoke with a Hizballah flag and swastikas in the background.(8) In Malmö, the Social Democrat parliamentarian, Luciano Astudillo, spoke as someone next to him held up a picture of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah.(9)

Sahlin’s attitude toward Israel may develop in directions similar to those of Sweden’s best known prime minister, the Social Democrat Olof Palme. He was the first Western-European prime minister to label Israel as a Nazi state.

In the past few years Israel has missed the opportunity to confront the current government on many anti-Israel matters, including its indirect subsidies to anti-Israel hate bodies, mainly leftovers from the Social Democrat government.

This is especially unfortunate since the Swedish Minister of International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, is currently revising the country’s foreign aid policies. She aims to move funding away from corrupt and dictatorial regimes to democracies and to projects that foster economic and political goals that are in line with those of Sweden. Pointing out how Palestinian organizations which receive major Swedish aid are abusing this could have had some actual influence on the country’s foreign aid policy.

If the current coalition, led by the Moderates, remains in power, one can raise these issues anew and try to solve them over a four year period. If the Social Democrats win the elections, ongoing confrontations with Sweden will be almost unavoidable. This is the more so as, for the first time, the Left and Green parties will probably join the government. There are many possibilities for Israeli retaliation against hostile Swedish acts, but it would be counterproductive to disclose them today.

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He has published fifteen books among which :


Behind the Humanitarian Mask, the Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews. (2008)


(1) Gil Hoffman, “Swedish FM Likens Netanyahu to Hamas,” Jerusalem Post, 10 April 2007.

(2) Ilya Meyer, “The Swedish Foreign Minister’s Crusade against Israel,” 9 December 2009. www.ilyameyer.com.


(3) Opposition poll lead “very worrying”: Reinfeldt, The Local 14 december 2009.

(4) Per Gudmundson, “Mona Sahlin, hakkorsen och Hamasflaggorna,” Gudmundson, 15 January 2009 http://gudmundson.blogspot.com. [Swedish]

(5) “Israelska flaggan brändes,” Dagens Nyheter, 10 January 2009. [Swedish]

(6) Per Gudmundson, “Rödflaggat,” Gudmundson, 13 January 2009, http://gudmundson.blogspot.com. [Swedish]

(7) Per Gudmundson, “Swedish Leading Social Democrats in Rally with Hezbollah Flags,” Gudmundson, 10 January 2009, http://gudmundson.blogspot.com. [Swedish]

(8) Erik Svansbo, “Folkbladet uppmärksammar ‘bloggkupp,’” Svansbo, 14 January 2009, http://blogg.svansbo.se. [Swedish]

(9) Per Gudmundson, “Rödflaggat,” Gudmundson, 13 January 2009, http://gudmundson.blogspot.com. [Swedish]

Why Carl Bildt is driving the Israelis up the wall

“September 19, 2010, that’s the target. Send the best political campaign professionals in the world into Sweden’s national elections. Make Reinfeldt and Bildt pay a price.”

That’s the suggestion of political consultant Michael Fenenbock in an op-ed in Israel’s largest daily, Yedioth Ahronoth. The reason is that the EU has once again proclaimed that Jerusalem should be the capital city of a future Palestinian state, something for which rotating EU president “Reinfeldt and his Rasputin-like partner Carl Bildt” ought to be punished.

“We have the means, the experience and skill to cause these guys political pain in Sweden,” writes Fenenbock, who has previously run campaigns for Ted Kennedy and others in the US.

That’s somewhat ironic. For decades now an anti-Semitic-tainted extreme Left has been mouthing off about a “pro-Israel Lobby” that is alleged to control the world’s political destiny. When finally someone turns up who claims to represent just such a lobby, it also turns out that he intends to bring down the non-socialist government. That’s going to lead to some really hard-to-reconcile internal conflicts in many quarters.

The fact, however, is that there is a tense relationship between Sweden and Israel right now. That’s on the political plane. As regards trade and cultural exchanges, on the other hand, the atmosphere has never been better.

Carl Bildt’s rather arrogant style (he recently claimed that Israel is trying to influence the EU through a policy of “divide and rule”) underscores some Israelis’ impression that Bildt did not merely convey the demands expected during his country’s EU presidency, but rather that he has taken on the task with a dedication bordering on fervour. As though he truly burns with enthusiasm to put Israel in its place.

This past autumn’s headline-making story in which this country’s biggest daily paper spread stories about Israeli organ harvesting, stories deeply rooted in anti-Jewish mythology, without being admonished by the Swedish government, has scarcely done anything to mend bridges.

In Israel, the EU’s and Sweden’s incessant demands are perceived as highly one-sided. And not without some justification.

Last week the Israeli media presented leaked details about what was probably the previous Israeli government’s proposal to the Palestinians: then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is reported to have made an offer for a future Palestinian state on 99.3% of the pre-1967 territory. As well as the partitioning of Jerusalem. The Palestinians declined. Yet again. So who exactly is being unreasonable?

The current Israeli government emerged as a response to the previous centre coalition, which received nothing in reply to its far-reaching concessions. If today we are hearing a sharp tone of voice from Prime Minister Netanyahu and others, it is not solely a cause of the situation we see today – it is in equal measure a response to Palestinian intransigence.

That a Swedish non-socialist government would be hostile to Israel is unthinkable. So how exactly are we to interpret Carl Bildt?

It’s that same old problem: trying to extract responsibility from the only party that has ever been shown to be capable of behaving responsibly, while never demanding responsibility from the one party that really should be shouldering it. Instead of perhaps using our immense financial aid to the Palestinians to persuade them in the appropriate direction.

The question is whether it would work. From the Israeli viewpoint, it is more convenient to bicker with Sweden, and to joke about rigging our election process, than it is to pursue an uncertain centrist policy that would require some extremely hazardous concessions. That makes Carl Bildt the Likud government’s excuse to shift its focus. And that may not have been the intention.

Per Gudmundson

per.gudmundson@svd.se

Translated into English by Ilya Meyer with kind permission from Per Gudmundson and Svenska Dagbladet (SvD)

The original article in Swedish can be viewed here on the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) website.

Michael Fenenbock's article in English in Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth can be viewed here.

Racism or medically treatable obsessive-compulsive disorder?

You’ve got to hand it to the Swedes. Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt (he is nominally Foreign Minister but he pretty much sets the agenda and does as he pleases) thinks nothing of using his nation’s financial resources and political and diplomatic clout to push the EU to recommend giving away the Israeli capital Jerusalem to the non-existent state of Palestine.

He feels it is important to reach “consensus” on this issue, so ideally he would like all 27 EU member states to vote to ostracise Israel.

As luck would have it, however, there are EU member states that still hold dear old-fashioned tenets such as principle, honesty, legal entitlement and burden of proof. Read Professor Dore Gold on the subject as he writes for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).

Interestingly, Carl Bildt has nothing to say about the fact that his Consul in Jerusalem, Ms Anna Brodin, advocates official and close ties between Hamas and Sweden – and hence the entire EU since “consensus” is an unassailable concept in the Swedish psyche. (Link in Swedish)

A quick reminder: Hamas is regarded by the EU, the UN, the US, the Quartet and NATO as a terrorist organisation. It is regarded as a terrorist entity by everyone, in fact, apart from other terrorist organisations. Even other Palestinians regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation. Hamas is even regarded as a terrorist organisation by Sweden under its Foreign Minster and de facto leader Carl Bildt. Within whose Foreign Minstry Ms Brodin operates…

After more than three years, Hamas still holds Gilad Schalit, an Israeli Jew illegally incarcerated in an underground dungeon in Gaza.Without trial, visitation rights, legal representation, Red Cross visits or family contacts. The Swedish government, which is the world’s largest per capita contributor of aid to the Palestinian Arabs, has consistently refused to make this aid conditional on even the most fundamental demands for humane treatment of Gilad Schalit, let alone his release.

And Carl Bildt’s government now wishes to legalise contacts with Hamas.

Under Carl Bildt, Sweden has an official foreign policy that is as transparent as it is rabidly anti-Israel.

That of course is a perfectly legitimate goal. The Swedish government has been duly elected in democratic fashion and it is free to adopt any policy of its choosing, even if many aspects of that policy are widely perceived as borderline racist when it comes to one single issue, and that issue alone: Israel.

That is not the problem. What is problematic, however, is the “invisible foreign policy by proxy” approach that Sweden has increasingly adopted under Carl Bildt’s time at the helm of state. It is a policy remarkably akin to that of another hardline radical regime, Iran, which performs its dirtier foreign-policy work through proxies such as Hizbollah and Hamas while rubbing shoulders with the political elite in capitals throughout the world. Sweden too handles its official obligations via its recognised diplomats, but does its real work by proxy, under the table, via a plethora of organisations with extremely shady aims, such as SIDA, Diakonia, ISM, Forum Syd, Palestinagrupperna, Palmecentret and so on, all of whom are in receipt of massive state funding for the pursuit of one single goal: the delegitimisation of the sovereign state of Israel. State funding of shady NGOs with the sole aim of sabotaging Israel is by no means a uniquely Swedish malaise but in Sweden it is perhaps more widely practised than anywhere else.

With Swedish diplomat Ms Anna Brodin now openly advocating an illicit activity in contravention of the law, to whit contacts with a terrorist organisation, it is now time to take a leaf out of the book of that other nation at the forefront of obsessive anti-Israeli activitism: Great Britain. A British court recently issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. In order to avoid any risk of unpleasantness on British soil, Ms Livni apparently recently cancelled a planned visit to London.

Time now to apply the same rules to the Swedish political elite. An international arrest warrant issued for Ms Anna Brodin for aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation, Hamas.

An international arrest warrant issued for Mr Ismail Haniyeh, the Islamist strongman of Gaza’s Hamas regime for his complicity in terrorism against Palestinian Arab and Jewish Israeli civilians.

An international arrest warrant issued for Mr Mahmoud Abbas for breach of contract by failing to live up to signed agreements for peace – his latest tactic is to refuse to negotiate on peace (for which he already has signed legally binding commitments) unless Israel first agrees to give him everything he wants so there is nothing left to negotiate about. Starting off with Jerusalem and all the territory he points at. Carl Bildt eagerly coordinates this policy with Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Arab Prime Minister (link in Swedish).

British Foreign Secretary David Milliband, to his credit, expressed dismay over the absurdity and inappropriateness of legal action against foreign leaders just because they happen to be Jewish Israelis.

No such reaction from the Swedes, however.

A few high-profile court cases with prominent Swedes in the dock are the next – in fact the only – logical step.

Because the time has come to play hardball. What you do is what you get back. No more “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, but rather “Do unto others before they do unto you”.

Starting now. In court.

Carl Bildt and his henchmen may well want to draw a new map of the world showing the ever-decreasing number of countries in which they are welcome. That map may well start shrinking as he takes stock of the countries that he and his aides can visit without risk of legal action.

It’s time Israel learned from the best.

References:
1.  Principle, honesty, foreign policy implementation by shady proxy: What Obama should have said
2.  Unlikely to be the official end-game of current Swedish policy but certainly one very tangible effect felt even in Sweden. Read TundraTabloids to find out how obsession with demonisation of the Jewish state spills over into victimisation of Jews in the countries of their birth. This is France.
3.  "Jews Have No Right To Jerusalem". Here's the view the Carl Bildt Jerusalem-Partition Plan supports.
4.  In Swedish: Expert Swedish journalist and analyst Per Gudmundson refers to a planned campaign by The 18, a US organisation that wants to bring about a substantial improvement by making Swedish FM Carl Bildt pay a political price for his obsessive targeting of the Jewish state.

A noble cause?

So the Nobel Awards for 2009 have come and gone.

US Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Hussein Obama – who was nominated for the prize within mere days of taking up office – arrived in Oslo, accepted the award and promptly left.

Obama said that “the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace”. That’s when the US itself is involved. However, it appears not to be a consideration he extends to America’s staunchest ally, Israel.

President Obama, whose very entitlement to the US presidency has been called into question owing to uncertainty over his country of birth, has come in for fierce criticism for accepting the Peace Prize when he has not actually contributed to peace.

Swedish journalist and commentator Per Gudmundson said on Swedish TV that President Obama makes as fitting a Peace Prize laureate as Yasser Arafat did – both have done equally little to advance the cause of peace, albeit in entirely different spheres. Arafat through decades of terrorist attacks on civilian Jews in Israel and around the world, Obama though ongoing and heightened military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively.

Here’s the speech Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Hussein Obama should have made in Oslo:


Dear friends of peace,

I am humbled by your gesture and vow to act in the spirit in which this signal honour was bestowed on me. If there is one lesson recent history has taught us, it is that of Northern Ireland. Decades of violence ended when funding for weapons and training dried up. As a result of international determination to strangle the supply of armaments to hate-mongers and violent terror groups, guns have been replaced by conference tables and very real progress has been made towards genuine, lasting peace. Friendship requires trust, and trust is based on mutual recognition of the other’s concerns and rights.

It is this same approach that I will apply now that I am in receipt of this, the greatest honour I have ever received. I have admittedly done nothing whatsoever to deserve it, yet, but I promise to live up to your expectations and to deliver on those expectations.

Here’s how I will do it: in Afghanistan and Iraq I will use military means to fight the hate-mongers and violent terror groups to a standstill. I will use the money from my Award to set up foundations for education so that future generations in these two war-torn countries see a different reality, a better future. I will above all else do absolutely everything it takes to proactively battle the supply of arms to these two fractured societies.

It is this very same approach I will adopt in that other Middle East hot-spot, the one that for so many decades has pitched the 50-odd Arab and Muslim states against the world’s sole Jewish nation, Israel. To paraphrase a former US President, read my lips: there will be an absolute stop to the supply of weapons to hate-mongers and violent terror groups. When the ability to perpetrate violence has been removed from the equation, the relevant sides will sit down and negotiate a solution. A solution that is a compromise. Because only a mutually agreed compromise will once and for all put an end to this conflict. A conflict that the community of nations has deliberately maintained as a running sore over a number of decades for reasons of political expediency.

Political expediency is at an end. From today the focus is on the human being. Whether Christian in Bethlehem, Muslim in Ramallah, Baha’i in Haifa or Jew in Jerusalem – the Nobel Peace Prize is going to sow the seeds for an approach that brings equal dignity to human beings across this conflict-ridden region.

Human dignity. For everyone. That means an end to Palestinian Arabs living in squalid refugee camps. It means full citizenship, and compensation, for all displaced peoples, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians, as well as Jews from Arab lands. It means an absolute – and resolutely enforced – ban on arms shipments to all groups engaged in violence, as well as the financing of such groups by any means whatsoever. It means an unequivocal refusal to countenance a nuclear-armed Iran. That will not happen, for the simple reason that the Iranian regime has clearly announced it intends to erase a fellow member of the UN family, Israel, off the map. The UN is not Mafia family which countenances the rubbing out of other family members. It is supposed to be a family of tolerant nations that enshrine mutual respect. If this kind of family is not to your taste, you’re welcome to leave.

And it means, finally, the immediate and absolute ban on all further state-sponsored interference in the affairs of other sovereign nations. This means – and I spell it out very clearly – the total and absolute cessation of government funding of subversion within Israel. The Israelis and their Arab neighbours, including the Palestinians, need to have sufficient peace of mind to work out their differences without outside interference. I am absolutely convinced that without the interference and active subversion of nations such as Sweden via a plethora of “NGOs” – activities that only serve to preserve and extend the atmosphere of mutual distrust and conflict – the Israelis and their Arab neighbours will come to an agreement that meets the widest possible consensus. Not everybody will be satisfied, but the majority will – on all sides.

However, that requires an end to subversion through the use of state-funded organisations that really serve as the extended arm of various nations’ covert foreign policy aims.

That has got to stop. No more covert interference from outside.

While I am here in Oslo, allow me therefore to spell it out clearly for your Swedish neighbours: no more use of Swedish tax revenues to fund disparate organisations such as SIDA, Diakonia, Palestinagruppen, Palmecentret, the Swedish Church and their obsessive meddling in the Middle East. Swedish foreign policy should be conducted openly and transparently through its Foreign Minister. Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has used his time and energy and his nation’s considerable resources to try and persuade the entire EU to push through the division of Jerusalem. Some observers may find it remarkable that the EU would actively support partition in one city while celebrating the 20th anniversary of reunification in another city, Berlin.

However, while the drive to partition Jerusalem may be cheered in certain quarters and abhorred in others, it is nonetheless the openly declared policy of Sweden, through its Foreign Ministry, and as such perfectly legitimate. It is a policy that can be contested in many forums, and doubtless will. What is not legitimate, however, is for the Swedish Foreign Ministry to extend its reach under the table by employing a web of subversive organisations, providing massive government funding for the execution of an invisible policy. To give one single example, Sweden’s extremist Palestinagruppen, with membership totalling just 800 or so members, gets government grants totalling in the region of 5.5 million US dollars, which it uses to fund anti-Israel operations both in Sweden and in Israel. Sweden is of course far from the only country engaged in this subversion. Many European and other countries pursue an active strategy of parallel yet invisible foreign policy via various NGOs.

This will stop.

Today I received the Nobel Peace Prize, for which I offer my heartfelt thanks. It is an award that brings with it serious obligations. I intend to live up to the obligations that came with this award – I will promote peace. Robustly.

Because sometimes, promoting peace requires going to war.

If you are engaged in subverting peace, I put you on notice.

I am Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Hussein Obama, and I am prepared to go to war to ensure peace. Because the instruments of war have a very real role to play in preserving the peace.

I will go to war to preserve peace because I hold human dignity dear.

Thank you for you attention.

Barack Hussein Obama


NGO Monitor: Promoting Israel's isolation
NGO Monitor: Lawfare
Gerald Steinberg: European Funding
Barbara Sofer: Letter to the Swedish Foreign Minister
Manfred Gerstenfeld: Behind the Humanitarian Mask
Jerusalem Post: Raising funds for Hamas on US campuses
JCPA/Dore Gold: Europe Seeks to Divide Jerusalem
IPT: Radical Movement's Leader Forecasts America's Demise
Honest Reporting: UNRWA Perpetuating the Misery
Spectator/Melanie Phillips: An Inconvenient Truth
Spectator/Melanie Phillips: Spot the Difference
Daniel Pipes: Sheikh Obama and his Two Wars
GLORIA/Barry Rubin: Radical Islamism
Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Europe Has Forsaken Israel
Israel National News: Sweden's Radical Anti-Israel Programme
Ilya Meyer: The Swedish Foreign Minister's Crusade Against Israel
Ilya Meyer: EU Buys Swedish Votes

The Swedish Foreign Minister's Crusade Against Israel

Courtesy GraphJam:
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165 murdered and more than 550 maimed in the space of a few hours.

That was the result of yesterday’s Islamist attacks on Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan.

In Iran, meanwhile, the nation was in virtual lockdown as the Islamist regime there clamped down on Muslims demanding democracy and the right to free speech.

Total silence from the rotating EU presidency, currently in the hands of Sweden. Yesterday you could read here (EU Buys Swedish Votes) a detailed account of how the Swedish Foreign Minister and his cohorts set their priorities.

Here’s some more information to add to the Carl Bildt profile: radical Swedish fringe movement Palestinagruppen is an extremist pro-Palestinian group with links to various terrorist organizations. It proudly claims in its annual report (link to the Swedish text here) that “When the new government took over we lobbied Foreign Minister Carl Bildt in a variety of ways, for instance through letters in which we asked him what actions he intended to take, and also through the media where we reminded him of the dedication he had previously shown to Palestine, recalling the demands taken on board at the Palestinagrupperna Congress in 2006. We received a detailed and exhaustive response in which he emphasised that he agrees with Palestinagrupperna on every score.”

Palestinagrupperna has a membership of about 800 people. But it has an annual budget of 40 million Swedish kronor. That’s almost 6 million US dollars. Of that, 38 million kronor (about 5.5 million USD) comes in the form of various grants from the Swedish state. That’s a lot of state funding for foreign policy lobbying through unorthodox, unethical, some might even say illicit, means.

And this parallel foreign-policy organisation – an unofficial department manned by 814 staffers on no official Foreign Policy payroll yet wielding political clout way beyond its numbers, verifies that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt “agrees with Palestinagrupperna on every score”.

But don’t take this shady quasi-Foreign Office department’s word for it. The figures – all 40 million of them – speak loud and clear.

The Swedish state is financing the subversion of a sovereign nation, Israel. It is doing so via a variety of means, both semi-legitimate such as through Palestinagrupperna, and officially via its Foreign Minister in the EU forum and elsewhere.

At a time when the Swedish economy is staggering, flagship carmaker Saab is being dismantled at a cost of thousands jobs and Volvo is on the verge of being sold off to China, the Swedish state coffers are being plundered to fund the delegitimisation of another member-state of the UN.

Officially. With state sanction. With the blessing of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the obsessive persistence of Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and the collaboration of the State Bank, whose funds are being diverted from Swedish hospitals, schools, job-creation schemes and climate-enhancing infrastructure to fund the most intransigent and most corrupt recipients of aid the world has ever seen.

Some final statistics: The USA is the largest single contributor of funds to Palestinian Arab welfare. US contributions total in the region of 100 million dollars a year. The population of the USA is about 305 million souls. Sweden, the second largest contributor to the Palestinian Arabs, has a population of just 9 million, but donates about 40 million dollars.

The Palestinians have responded to Israel’s construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, in exactly the same way that they responded to Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

By ignoring it.

Sweden, meantime, keeps diverting much-needed finances from its own population to fund continued Palestinian Arab intransigence.

That’s how important it is to Sweden’s political elite to keep the flames of anti-Israel hatred and anti-Semitic indoctrination burning.

Long-suffering Swedes are being forced to finance their politicians’ private obsession.

While Carl Bildt busies himself castigating and undermining Israel, the victim of Islamist terror, while at the same time aiding and abetting the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, regimes that enshrine terror, most recently today, he may want to pause long enough to do this pop quiz and determine just how justified he is in forcibly diverting tax kronor from his own country and giving them to regimes that cannot spell "compromise", "honesty", "history" or "ethics".

Courtesy Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones:

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The New Republic

Washington Post

Washington Post

Muslim Against Sharia

Haaretz,

EU buys Swedish votes

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is using the EU to buy votes in Sweden’s 2010 elections.

Over a hundred people are blown to bits in a series of Islamist attacks throughout Pakistan.

Over a hundred people are blown to bits in a series of Islamist attacks in Iraq.

Several dozen are blown to bits in a range of Islamist attacks in Afghanistan.

That’s just this week.

And it’s only Tuesday lunchtime.

The Palestinian Authority refuses to allow H1N1 vaccine into Gaza because it refuses to legitimise the Islamist Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.

In several cities throughout Sweden, several hundred vehicles have been set alight by “disaffected” youths of what is euphemistically known as “Middle East origin” in what the youngsters themselves term their Swedish intifada. Here's what Swedish Radio, Tundra Tabloids and English-language Swedish daily The Local (here, here and here) have to say on the subject.

Sweden’s government-funded aid agency SIDA is under investigation for fraud following years of massive funding of various Palestinian, Islamist and other “charities”, including some engaged in terrorism and racist indoctrination. SIDA is currently being audited for gross overspending of its budget.

But Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is way too busy to deal with any of this. He’s busy using the 27-member EU forum to push through his pet project: in the very year that marks the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Berlin, Bildt is pushing the EU to adopt a resolution demanding the partition of Jerusalem. One part will become what he does not recognise as the capital of the Jewish state of Israel, while the other part will be forcibly converted into the recognised capital of the ethnically cleansed state of Palestine. Ethnically cleansed of Jews, that is, along the lines demanded and already achieved in Gaza. As Bildt doubtless knows, about 20 percent of the population of the Jewish state of Israel is made up of Arabs. He is perfectly happy with the glaring inconsistencies.

Carl Bildt simply does not dwell on such niceties. He has other things on his mind. Elections will be held in his country in less than a year. With his party’s popularity not so much flagging as sagging, he needs a miracle to stay in power and continue strapping on his nosebag with the weaker-minded see-no-Islamists people currently heading some of Europe’s nations.

With something like half a million Muslims living in Sweden – but fewer than 18,000 Jews – he needs to work an electoral miracle. Hence his Jerusalem obsession. It’s a guaranteed vote-clincher.

With every new sign of weakness and uncertainty, Islamism storms ahead. But don’t take my word for it, watch the following film featuring a former Islamist extremist. His message in a nutshell: Don’t back down. Maintain your humanity and do whatever you need to preserve your civilised norms as a modern society but don’t ever back down or offer concessions in the face of Islamist aggression – you’ll only pay the price later.


Dr. Hamid Tawfik, a Muslim and a former terrorist found himself unable to continue the path of violent jihadist Islamism after he realised he was being turned into the brainwashed victim of radical Islamism.

The Swedish Foreign Minister doesn’t have time to listen to such advice. He’s too busy to notice that Islamist Abdirisak Waberi has been nominated for parliament in Bildt’s own party, the Conservatives. Mr Waberi is renowned for stating, among other things, that men should be permitted to have four wives, that men should be allowed to hit their wives, that men are intrinsically superior to women, and that Islam is the only way to lead a good life. Bildt is strangely quiet on this score.

Carl Bildt doesn’t even have time to read the reports of hundreds of people slaughtered and maimed by Islamists in their wars against other Islamists. He probably won’t want to be reminded that 3 million Muslims were killed in the internecine fighting between what was then Muslim West Pakistan and Muslim East Pakistan, today Muslim Bangladesh. Another 10 million Muslims were uprooted and displaced, most seeking refuge in neighbouring India. That pattern is being repeated at the time of writing in countless Islamist hotspots throughout Muslim Africa and the Middle East. And that’s before one even mentions the violent Islamist resurgence in the Philippines.

Carl Bildt is just too busy to see any of this.

He’s busy forcing Jews to pay for his electoral victory.

And yes, it’s intended to be “his” electoral victory. Fredrik Reinfeldt may nominally be the Prime Minister of Sweden, but it is the overactive Carl Bildt who sets the agenda and does as he wants.

And what he wants bears an uncanny resemblance to what Hamas, Hizbollah and Iran want.

Who knows, perhaps he’s angling to become the first Palestinian Foreign Minister?

Kidnappningsvågen har nått Sverige

Kidnappningsvågen har spridit sig från Mellanöstern till Sverige.

Kidnappning, gisslantagande driven av personlig och/eller politisk vinning, har nu definitivt tågat in i det svenska finrummet.

Gisslantagande är inte längre förbehållet fanatiska islamistiska grupper med en dunkel politisk dagordning eller våldsdyrkande Talibankåta anhängare i Peshawar, Ramallah, Beirut, Bagdad eller Fort Hood.

Nu utövas otyget här hemma i Sverige.

Dess främste förespråkare är Sveriges minst diplomatiske och mest aggressive utrikesminister genom tiderna: Carl Bildt. Aftonbladet publicerade i augusti en antisemitisk artikel om påstådd israelisk organhandel och hela världen väntade på att den svenska regeringen skulle följa i Sveriges Israelambassadör Elisabet Borsiin Bonniers fotspår och uttrycka avsmak för artikelns innehåll samtidigt som man klargjorde tidningens rätt att publicera den (pinsamt amatör yrkesutövning och infantilt språkbruk är inte olagliga i Sverige). JK har gjort klart att ett sådant ställningstagande från Carl Bildt möter inga juridiska hinder.

Carl Bildt gjorde dock precis tvärt om: drog tillbaka ambassadörens uttalande och vägrade yttra sig om Aftonbladets osmakliga artikel som smutskastade judar. Några veckor senare gjordes dock starka uttalanden från regeringshållet – men då var det muslimer som hade svartmålats i samma tidning.

Carl Bildt kritiserades av Israel för hans ovanligt hårdföre och även för honom klumpiga framfart i Aftonbladetfallet. Som svar på kritiken tar nu Carl Bildt Sveriges utrikespolitik och landets anseende utomlands gisslan genom att gå i spetsen för en aggressiv handling utan like i Sveriges historia: medan Sverige fortfarande har EU-klubban företräder han den islamistiska vägrarfronten och agerar för att Israels huvudstad Jerusalem tas från israelerna och ges till palestinierna. Genom att tvinga fram ett beslut i ärendet bygger han långsiktigt upp ett juridiskt underlag för internationell militär aktion mot den judiska staten. Det är en makalöst aggressiv handling som kommer att få vidsträckta konsekvenser för Sveriges anseende utomlands – och krossa varje möjlighet till fred i Mellanöstern.

Carl Bildt är en pinsam belastning för Sverige. Inte att undra på att flera partier är på stark frammarsch inför nästa års val, på både extremvänster- och extremhögerkanten.

Carl Bildt använder utrikesdepartementet som sin egen privata utpressningsliga. Han har kidnappat Sverige och håller den svenska utrikespolitiken gisslan medan han driver sin egen privata vendetta mot den judiska staten.

Hostage-taking in Sweden

Kidnapping as a political weapon makes the transition from the Arab mindset to Sweden.

Kidnapping, the taking of hostages for personal and/or political gain, has now made its triumphant entry into Sweden’s finest salons.

Hostage-taking is no longer the exclusive preserve of fanatical Islamist groups with a fearsome political agenda or of psychotically violent Taliban worshippers in Peshawar, Ramallah, Beirut, Baghdad or Fort Hood.

Now the disease has spread to Sweden.

Its prime advocate is Sweden’s least diplomatic and most aggressive Foreign Minister in history: Carl Bildt. In August, Swedish extremist left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet published an anti-Semitic article based on unfounded allegations of officially sanctioned Israeli organ trafficking using the bodies of dead Palestinian Arabs. The whole world waited for the Swedish government to follow in the footsteps of Sweden’s ambassador to Israel, Ms Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier, who expressed distaste for the article’s racist content while at the same time supporting the newspaper’s right to publish it – embarrassingly amateurish journalism and infantile writing style are not, after all, illegal in Sweden. Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz confirmed there were no legal obstacles to either Carl Bildt or any other senior government representative voicing similar sentiments.

The Swedish government, however, did the exact opposite: Carl Bildt withdrew the ambassador’s statement and refused to comment on the article that made derogatory remarks about Jews. A few weeks later, however, there were very strong government comments in the Swedish media – because the same newspaper had published an article containing derogatory remarks about Muslims.

Carl Bildt was criticised by Israel for his unusually abrupt and – even for him – uncouth behaviour over the Aftonbladet case. In response to Israel, Carl Bildt has now taken Sweden’s foreign policy and its reputation hostage by spearheading an act that in terms of its aggressive intent is unparalleled in Sweden’s history: While Sweden still holds the EU Presidency, Carl Bildt has devoted himself to representing the Islamist rejetionist front, forging ahead in the vanguard of a movement to alter the status of Israel’s capital Jerusalem and formally give it to a non-existent state, “Palestine”.

By forcing through an EU decision on this matter, he is adopting a long-term strategy to create the legal foundation for international military action against the Jewish state. It is an act of unparalleled aggression that will have far-reaching consequences for Sweden’s reputation abroad – and will crush any hope of peace in the Middle East.

Carl Bildt is an embarrassing burden for Sweden. Voices in the Foreign Office mutter about his autocratic style and his constant efforts to put himself rather than Sweden’s interests or reputation in focus. No wonder then that several political parties are making huge gains in the run-up to national elections in autumn 2010 – on both the fanatical Left and extremist Right fringes and at the expense of the mainstream political establishment.

Carl Bildt is using the Foreign Office as his own private extortion organisation. He has kidnapped Sweden and is holding Swedish foreign policy hostage while he pursues his own private vendetta against the Jewish state.

An illiterate Foreign Minster?

Is Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt illiterate?

Or can he actually read and write, and it’s just his thought processes that are muddled?

Richard Goldstone recently published a scathing report that heavily criticised Israel for its 30-day operation in Gaza in January this year. Remarkably, however, the report failed to take make mention of the 2920 days of constant missile bombardment that emanated from civilian areas of Gaza, aimed at civilian areas of Israel.

Over 12,000 missiles in all.

None of which Richard Goldstone seems to have noted.

Now Sweden’s FM Bildt says he supports the Goldstone Report’s claims that war crimes were committed by Israel in its month-long response to eight years of missile bombardment.

A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed disappointment over Bildt’s statement, saying his remarks demonstrated a “lack of reading comprehension skills,” since any literate person could see the report was biased.

Carl Bildt, with impeccable clarity and swashbuckling literary style, commented:

“It really is so that this report has made a significant and gives a significant imprint and leaves a significant impression in the respective countries.”

Ah well. If only he’d said so before.

No chance of any misunderstanding, then.

Sweden goes to the elections next year. That’s a whole year in which Carl Bildt can bring moral, ethical and linguistic clarity to the world.

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