Obama’s intifada

Obama’s intifada continues to harvest lives

Barack Hussein Obama may nominally be the president of the United States of America, but he is increasingly behaving like the representative of some particularly hard-line Islamist regime in the Middle East.

It may explain why he signally fails to impose a single demand on the Palestinian Arabs. There is total consensus between the hard-line Hamas regime of Gaza and the ostensibly “moderate” Palestinian Authority of the West Bank – the two Jewish provinces of Judea and Samaria that the Palestinians want to create a second Palestinian nation alongside the Palestinian nation of Jordan. Both the PA and Hamas want all of Israel, all of Jerusalem, and none of the Jews who live in the region.

Obama flatly refuses to impose a single demand on these two organizations, which in all other respects are otherwise sworn enemies of each other.

What Obama does do is to openly condemn Israel for wanting to build homes for Jews in the Jewish capital on land that has never belonged to any sovereign nation other than Israel. His latest condemnation of the Jewish state is officially linked to Israel’s long-known project for the construction of 1600 apartments in Jerusalem. However, increasing numbers of analysts note that what Hussein Obama is doing is actually to alter the political make-up of the sovereign state of Israel by forcing Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu out of power, to be replaced by someone more favourable to Obama’s visions for the Middle East.

Interestingly in the context of apartment building in capital cities, Swedish politicians during this election year are proudly claiming responsibility for wanting to build 15,000 new apartments in and around Stockholm (link in Swedish). Obama has no comment. Of course, Sweden is not a Jewish country so it is not worthy of his interest.

After noting Hussein Obama’s steady ramping up of attacks on the Jewish state, his insults to the Jewish premier on the latter’s recent visit to Washington and the US president’s utter failure to make any demands on the intransigent Muslim regimes that aim to replace Israel with the world’s 25th Arab and 56th Muslim state, the hardliners in Gaza have accordingly stepped up their own attacks on the Jewish state.

Last week it was a civilian farm worker in southern Israel who was killed in a Hamas rocket assault on the farm where he worked. Today four Palestinian Arabs and two Israeli soldiers were killed when the Arabs attempted to invade Israel and kidnap more Jews to join Gilad Schalit, the only Jew alive in an otherwise entirely ethnically cleansed Gaza Strip. Gilad Schalit is being used in a macabre human trafficking scam to extract the release of convicted mass-murderers and terrorists.

Hussein Obama has no comments regarding the ethnically cleansed, Jew-free nature of the Gaza Strip. That may be because he is too busy planning his next proxy attack on the Jewish state. He certainly isn’t dealing with the Jewish state’s biggest existential threat in its entire history – a nuclear-armed Islamist Iran. Even though the Iranian threat is also a threat to the US and Europe. Hussein Obama, known for his years of upbringing as a strict Muslim and later for his friendship with a Christian pastor of particularly un-Christian attitudes towards Jews, shows an embarrassing animosity towards Jews and a transparently burning desire to penalise the Jewish state, whatever the risk to his own country or his allies.

The administration of Hussein Obama, president of the USA, is characterized by strange silences interspersed with voluble outbursts that delight the USA’s enemies and alienate its friends. And still there are a few analysts who maintain that he is actually serving US interests.

It’s almost as though the Obama administration had settled down for business in the wrong capital.


Related links:
Dore Gold - Diplomatic dispute obscures Israel's invaluable help to the US military
New York Times - Can an undivided Jerusalem be shared?
Times - Obama disapproves of covert killing. Except when the US engages in this nefarious practice.
Arutz Sheva - The Palestinian leader cannot be seen to be less pro-Palestinian than the White House

Pesach, Påsk - och Gilad Schalit

Omvärlden gillar inte att Israel bygger bostäder för judar i Jerusalem.

Omvärlden är högljudd i sitt fördömande av Israel för att Israel bygger bostäder på mark som aldrig någonsin tillhört något annat land.

Omvärlden är totalt tyst inför det faktum att den överväldigande majoriteten av illegala bostäder i och kring Jerusalem faktiskt byggs av araber.

Omvärlden är totalt tyst inför hur många araber som illegalt uppehåller sig i Jerusalem, och därigenom orsakar denna enorma marknad för illegalt arabiskt bostadsbyggande.

Omvärlden är totalt tyst inför det faktum att medan man ökar trycket på Israel att ge arabvärlden allt vad den vill ha, är trycket på arabiska extremister att frisläppa israelen Gilad Schalit nästan obefintligt.

Som tonåring kidnappades Gilad kidnappades från Israel och nu sitter han sitt fjärde år i en underjordisk håla utan tillgång till familj, advokat, Röda korset, FN, EU, USA, vem som helst. Han har enligt Hamas inte ens fått se solen eller dagsljus under dessa fyra år.

Om några dagar firar judar världen över Pesach, den judiska påsken.

Pesach firar man i åminne av judarnas befrielse från slaveri.

I Gazaremsan – som helt och hållet finansieras av EU och resten av omvärlden – sitter det dock en jude i slaveri. I enlighet med de palestinska arabernas krav är Gazaremsan totalt etniskt rensad från samtliga judar, såväl levande som döda – till och med de döda fick grävas upp för att åter begravas i Israel. Så hårda etniska krav har det palestinska arabiska samhället på det som ska bilda kärnan till det andra palestinska landet vid sidan om Jordanien (där 70% av befolkning är palestinska araber).

Omvärlden förblir tyst. Tyst, men fortsatt generös. För medan denna bestialitet fortsätter, fortsätter även EUs och FNs ohämmade utbetalningar till regimen som uppfann och bedriver denna råa människohandel.

Utbetalningar som består av våra skattemedel.

Omvärlden har glömt Gilad Schalit, den enda juden kvar i Gazaremsan.

Gör inte ni det också. Denna Pesach, påskhögtiden, håll en plats tom för Gilad Schalit vid bordet, vare sig ni firar den judiska eller den kristna högtiden.

Och förklarar för alla vad ni gör och varför ni gör det.
 
Ni gör det för att ni inte vill glömma. För att ni inte är som resten av världen. Ni anser inte att slaveri är rätt. Inte ens när det subventioneras av Sverige via SIDA, via EU och via FN.
 
 
Intressanta länkar:
Europaparlamentet kräver Gilad Schalits frisläppande från olaglig fångenskap
Europaparlamentet kräver Gilad Schalits frisläppande från olaglig fångenskap
ECR kräver Gilad Schalits frisläppande från olaglig fångenskap kräver Gilad Schalits frisläppande från olaglig fångenskap
Läs om alla andra som ser det självklara i att Gilad Schalit måste släppas fri från sin slaveri
 

The EU goes to school and learns nothing

Catherine Ashton is high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and vice president of the European Commission.

At considerable public expense (she and her extensive retinue are funded by European taxpayers), she recently traveled to the Gaza Strip on what she termed was a mission “to see whether European assistance money has an effect on the ground”. Her conclusion? “It does.”

Returning from the Islamist-controlled Gaza Strip – the Hamas terrorist organisation seized control of the territory in an illegal and particularly brutal coup – she jotted down her impressions in an article in the New York Times entitled “Lessons from a Gaza Trip”.

It has to be said straight off: if this is how Catherine Ashton learns lessons, it’s a wonder she ever graduated from junior school.

She went to the Gaza Strip and learned nothing. Least of all the fundamental concept of “cause and effect”. She recorded that upon leaving the modern and vibrant Jewish nation of Israel and entering Gaza you emerge “like a time-traveler transported backwards, on a dirt track. This is where the industrial center of Gaza used to be. Now, people with donkeys and carts carry stones from the rubble”. She failed to learn, let alone explain, that the reason why the industrial center of Gaza (which used to give employment to hundreds of Gaza residents) is a pile of rubble is because the Hamas rulers consistently bombarded it in order to force its closure – and then employ gullible useful idiots like Ashton to claim that there are no jobs for Gazans because of Israel.

Among the more remarkable claims this paragon of Euro-intelligence and foreign policy blundering makes is that European financial assistance has a positive effect on the ground. She is right, in a way. Because whatever financial assistance is provided on the ground frees up corresponding funding below ground for the tunnels that are used for the purchase, import, engineering and firing of missiles at Israeli civilians – most recently with one fatality last week. It is a remarkably simple lesson in elementary mathematics and logic that Lady Catherine Ashton appears not to have learned.

To find out more about how continued EU and other foreign meddling funding extends the conflict, read the following report by NGO Monitor.

Even more remarkably, Ashton traveled to the Gaza Strip and failed to undertake the most basic and most effective steps to assure Israel that she is truly non-partisan. All she had to do was state that her planned visit would go ahead subject to the immediate and unconditional release of Gilad Schalit, the only Jew alive in an otherwise Jew-free, ethnically cleansed Gaza Strip. Schalit was kidnapped from Israel while in his teens and has been illegally held by Gaza’s Hamas rulers ever since, almost four years now. In contravention of a whole raft of international agreements, not least the Geneva Conventions, he has not been granted visitation rights by his parents, legal representation (not that he is accused of anything other than being a Jew), he has been denied visits by the Red Cross (although to be fair the Red Cross have never demanded to visit him) and as Hamas proudly boasts the young man has not seen daylight for his entire 4-year captivity.

All Ashton had to do to convince Israel of her impartiality was to demand Schalit’s release as a precondition for her high-profile visit and the continued pumping in of massive foreign aid.

But such a step was unthinkable to Lady Catherine Ashton and her EU backers.

All she could do was to feed continued Arab and Islamist intransigence with statements such as “A way must be found to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of both Israel and Palestine.” Really? Why is this so important, yet the release of Gilad Schalit is not? And why is this so important but there is no urgent need to find a way to resolve the status of Hebron as a city that is as important to many Israelis as Jerusalem itself is? Hebron used to be the political capital of the Jewish nation and to this day is of vital significance as a religious centre. Neither Jerusalem nor Hebron has ever been of the slightest importance to any Arab or Muslim community, except insofar as they are important to the Jews which automatically means they are claimed by the entire Arab and Muslim world with the subservient assistance of dhimmi (servile) European and US administrations. Visit the ME Forum and read this article to find out what dhimmitude has in store for the West.
 
“Lessons from a Gaza Trip”? The EU’s foreign-policy and security head really needs lessons in how to do her homework. She has learned nothing.


Useful links:
Read about how foreign NGOs exploit public funding – that’s taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars – to undermine Israel, a UN member state. They do so with European government acquiescence: NGO Lawfare

Read about how foreign NGOs played a vital part in the concerted propaganda war against Israel following Hizbollah’s attack on the Jewish state in 2006: NGO campaigns in the 2006 Hizbollah war on Israel

CAMERA comments on Catherine Ashton's Gaza visit: EUobserver's Misobservation on Palestinian Civilian Casualties
CAMERA exposes media duplicity and public funding of anti-Israel NGO activity
CAMERA on the lessons that the media - and the EU's Catherine Ashton - fail to learn: official Palestinian Authority anti-Semitism. Meantime, the PA and other Palestinian organisations continue to receive EU and other foreign funding.
CAMERA on continued Church bias against the Jewish state, in parallel with continued funding of Islamist intransigence

Read the Tundra Tabloids for an analysis of what dhimmitude brings to Western society.

Read more from this blog about Gilad Schalit and his incarceration. Gilad Schalit was kidnapped from Israel while he was still a teenager and his captors are currently engaged in the illegal and primitive practice of human trafficking, auctioning his life in exchange for various rewards.
In Sweden silence is golden
Ban Ki-moon's strange silence
Out with the old, in with the new - maybe
The drip effect

The European Parliament has taken a stance on behalf of Gilad Schalit
ECR group calls for release of Gilad Schalit:
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on European governments to work for Gilad Schalit’s freedom:
For an insightful analysis of the war that continued foreign meddling is going to bring to the Middle East, read the following article by Daniel Pipes

One man. Two visits. Two very different voices.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has just been to the Gaza Strip.

He visited a Gaza City neighborhood that was damaged during IDF Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli response to 8 years of Arab attacks in which more than 10,000 missiles were fired from Gaza on Israeli civilian communities. Ban Ki-moon assured the Arab aggressors on behalf of the UN: "we stand with you."

He referred to Israel's decision to permit the entry of limited quantities of building supplies as "a drop in a bucket of water" and vowed that he would demand that the Israeli authorities do more. "This is a positive, welcome step and I believe that we need far more ... I have repeatedly made it clear to Israeli leaders that their policy of closures is not sustainable and is wrong ... It causes unacceptable suffering," Ban said.
 
“The world has condemned Israel’s settlement plans in east Jerusalem,” Ban went on to say at a news conference, continuing: “Let us be clear. All settlement activity is illegal anywhere in occupied territory and must be stopped.”
 
Following his visit to Gaza and his profuse comments on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza and of Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank), Ban Ki-moon met with the parents of Gilad Schalit, a Jew who was kidnapped from Israel while still a teenager and has been held ever since – coming up to 4 years now – without prospects of freedom and without access to his parents, legal representation (not that he is accused of anything other than being a Jew), visits by the Red Cross (not that they have ever demanded to visit him) or such basic human rights as access to daylight.
 
"Gilad is being held by Hamas with disregard for basic human rights - a situation which is intolerable and unacceptable to any person in the free world," Ban Ki-moon told Gilad’s parents.

That’s it. Nothing else. No question of “demands” being made on his Hamas captors. No question of how pressure is to be ramped up against Hamas in the UN.

Here is a video that shows how Schalit's Hamas captors - the government of Gaza - mock his parents and trample both Gilad's and his parents' basic human rights, parading an actor portraying their captive and threatening dire consequences if their human trafficking demands are not met:



The UN chief was keen to “condemn” Israel for building apartments in an area of Jerusalem that has never belonged to any sovereign nation other than Israel, but chose not to condemn Hamas for Gilad Schalit’s continued incarceration.

The UN chief branded Israel’s plans to build apartments as “illegal” – a word he carefully avoided using with regard to Gilad Schalit’s continued incarceration.

Israel may have allowed the entry of some construction materials into Gaza and Ban Ki-moon may regard this as “a drop in a bucket of water” – but Israel is still waiting for him to demand a corresponding symbolic “drop in a bucket of water” from the Hamas regime with regard to such niceties as the release of Schalit, the cessation of rocket fire (27 rockets so far this year, one civilian fatality in Israel last week while the UN chieftain was actually in Gaza), the cessation of anti-Semitic indoctrination on Hamas TV and in schools.

Ban Ki-moon anguished over the “wrong” and “unacceptable suffering” of the Palestinian Arabs subjected to road blocks and border closures, but did not mention the need for Israeli civilians to spend their entire lives within walking distance of bomb shelters for fear of repeated and continuing missile attacks from Gaza, nor did he talk about the “unacceptable suffering” of Schalit’s parents for the crime of being Jewish.

Israel is still waiting for Ban Mi-moon to publicly state “we stand with you” in the face of continued Palestinian Arab rocket attacks, racist incitement, rioting in public places, physical attacks on civilians and military personnel. In fact, Israel still waits for any sign from the UN chieftain that he stands with Israel on any score whatsoever or that he understands any aspect of the Jewish state’s predicament.

Ban Ki-moon stands firmly with the Palestinian Arabs, whatever they do.

And Ban Ki-moon stands very much apart from Israeli victims of continued Palestinian Arab aggression.

Ban Ki-moon does indeed represent the “United Nations” – nations united in their animosity towards the Jewish state of Israel.


Relevant links from this site:
In English:
UNHCR vs UNRWA
Brazening it out
Rocket diplomacy with UN backing
Strange priorities


In Swedish:
Ockupation och bosättning - vem gör vad
Rysk roulett

Rysk roulett

Den israeliska militären har för vana att spela rysk roulett med arresterade arabiska terrorister.

Man tar en revolver men plats för sex patroner, stoppar in endast ett skott, snurrar på kammaren och trycker på avtryckaren. Sedan sätter man fart på kammaren en gång till och trycker av igen. Och så vidare. Resultatet kan man tänka ut själv - statistiskt kommer det säkerligen att smälla någon gång. Med mord som resultat.

Ett problem.

Ovanstående har aldrig hänt. Det israeliska rättssystemet – och den israeliska etiken och moralen – skulle aldrig tillåta något så barbariskt, omänskligt, förnedrande och motbjudande. Detta är terrorism.

Och precis detta, terrorism där man leker med offrens liv på måfå, iscensätts dagligen av Hamas – den palestinska regeringen i Gazaremsan som bland andra Sveriges Carl Bildt och Mona Sahlin, EUs Catherine Ashton och USAs Barack Hussein Obama envisas med att gulla med.

Hamas har skjutit 27 raketer mot Israel bara i år. Dessa har inte riktats mot något specifikt mål utan är ämnade att terrorisera en hel befolkning. Precis som revolvern med en patron i kammaren. Och idag landade en av dessa Hamasraketer på en bondgård i södra Israel och dödade en person.

Minns ni ramaskriet när Israel för några dagar sedan tillkännagav byggandet av 1600 lägenheter för judar samtidigt som USAs vicepresident Joe Biden var på besök i regionen? I en pinsam uppvisning av dålig faktakontroll skrev en enig omvärld om hur felaktigt det var att ”illegalt” bygga lägenheter på ”ockuperad mark”.

Problem: marken där lägenheterna ska byggas är inte ”ockuperad” – ordet som det är så fashionabelt att svänga med då och då. Efter det att Jordanien invaderade och ockuperade Västbanken (de judiska provinserna Judéen och Samarien som palestinierna vill ska skänkas till dem som framtida palestinskt land) låg det aktuella området, Ramat Shlomo, i ingenmansland – det har aldrig tillhört någon palestinsk stat. Inte heller låg det inom den del som ockuperades av Jordanien. Sålunda är det aktuella området helt oomtvistat. Anspråk på marken riktas inte av Jordanien eller Palestinska Myndigheten, utan av USA genom Obama, Clinton och Biden, av EU genom Ashton, av Sverige genom Bildt och så vidare. Allt baserat på pinsam okunnighet – eller cynisk manipulation.

Omvärlden hade ändå inte ord nog att fördöma (exakt det ord användes) Israel för dess dåliga och provocerande tajming med bslutet. Politiker, medier, analytiker – alla hade oerhört mycket att säga om det. Framförallt var det alltså den dåliga tajmingen som retade gallfeber på dessa kommentatorer.

Idag är EUs utrikesminister, Catherine Ashton, på besök i Gaza för att visa sitt stöd för de palestinska araberna och deras valda regering – samma regering som av det svenska Migrationsverket döms som så aggressiv mot den egna arabiska befolkningen att de som flyr Gaza numera får utökad möjlighet till asyl i Sverige just på grund av att Hamasregeringen anses skyldig till "brister i efterlevandet av de mänskliga rättigheterna". Med andra ord, regimen är våldsam, icke-demokratisk och icke-fungerande.

Och medan Ashton är i Gaza, just då skjuter Hamas några av sina raketer mot Israel och dödar en civil. En jordbruksarbetare.

Så här kommenterade Catherine Ashton händelsen: ”Jag fördömer allt slags våld. Vi måste hitta en fredlig lösning på alla frågor och problem … vi måste fortsätta att föra dialogen framåt.” Generaliseringar, förövarna Hamas nämns inte, ordet "terrorism" lyser med sin frånvaro, alla är lika goda kålsupare.

Men så här kommenterade Catherine Ashton Israels beslut att bygga bostäder i Jerusalem: ”EU fördömer den israeliska regeringens beslut att bygga nya lägenheter i östra Jerusalem”. Israel nämns specifikt, ordet ”fördömer” används tydligt, det är inga svävande generaliseringar här inte. Hon sade mer därtill: ”Jag står sida vid sida med USAs vicepresident Joe Biden i fördömandet av beslutet att bygga 1600 nya bostäder i östra Jerusalem”. Och även följande: ”EU kräver att de israeliska myndigheterna möter alla sina åtagande och förpliktelser gentemot fredsprocessen och att landet avstår från ensidiga beslut och aktioner som äventyrar slutstatusförhandlingarna”. Inga problem med att vara specifik, konkret, identifiera vad man anser vara problemet, vem som är förövaren. Inte när det gäller den judiska staten.

Konstigt nog är samma Catherine Ashton, som är så övertydlig när det gäller israelisk bostadskonstruktion i östra Jerusalem, plötsligt helt tyst när det gäller illegal konstruktion i samma stad – om den utförs av palestinska araber. Läs här och här om hur utbrett det olagliga arabiska byggandet av bostäder i Jerusalem egentligen är.
 
Om bara USA och EU kunde avhålla sig från sitt sedvanliga stöd till terrorister, mördare och ökända diktaturer under en (1) månad, skulle fred kunna vara ett faktum.
 
USA och EU förlänger bara eländet. Uppmuntrade av USAs öppet antiisraeliska ställning och EUs oreserverade stöd oavsett vad de gör, har palestinska extremister lyckats döda ännu en civil i Israel.

Imorgon sätter Hamasterroristerna ytterligare ett skott i kammaren, snurrar på den och sätter fingret på avtryckaren.

Undrar vem i Israel som dör imorgon.

Med USAs och EUs benägna hjälp.


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EU subventionerar antiisraelisk politik med skattemedel
Svenska utrikesministerns korståg mot Israel - finansierat med svenska skattemedel
En ny internationell kommission behövs
Ekonomin blomstrar
FNs totala tystnad
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Hamas grymhet dokumenterad - men tystnaden är öronbedövande
Konstiga prioriteringar

Silence and condemnation

Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007.

More specifically, 250 Greenwich Street.

It’s where the World Trade Center used to stand.

The street is going to be renamed.

Its new name: Osama bin Laden Plaza.

You may not have heard about this. No international protests. No public demonstrations about the unsuitability of naming the site after a terrorist and mass-murderer of civilians. No debates in the UN Security Council. No hasty meetings convened between the US and EU to discuss the aggressive tone of this deliberate insult, no inter-governmental agreements on how best to punish the decision-makers behind this tasteless, counterproductive measure. No UN comment on how this unnecessarily subverts attempts to bridge cultural, political and religious divides.

The reason for the silence?

Perhaps it’s because the US prizes consistency. After all, the US signally refused to comment on – let alone condemn – the Palestinian Authority for naming the public square outside Ramallah town hall in honour of terrorist and mass-murderer Dalal Mughrabi, who a number of years ago killed 38 Jewish civilians in Israel, including 13 children. The dedication of the town square was scheduled to coincide with US Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to the region.

Before we go any further, let me clarify that there are no plans to rename the Twin Towers site. It was merely a ruse to make a point. But that point, however, is still frighteníngly valid. Why the US silence on dedicating a town square to a terrorist and mass-murderer? The US is, after all, bankrolling the Palestinian Authority and even arming and training its fighters. Does the US administration really feel so comfortable with this decision by its protégé?

Not only was it not Joe Biden’s policy to comment on the decision, he did not actually have time to comment on it – he was too busy “condemning” Israel for wanting to build apartments for Jews in a part of Jerusalem that even the Palestinian Arabs recognize will always remain part of Israel, whatever the shape and details of a possible future final-status peace agreement.

Interestingly, neither Joe Biden nor Barack Hussein Obama nor Hillary Clinton has ever spoken out against the unsuitability of China building apartments for ethnic Chinese in Tibet, after first transferring one million Tibetans out of their ancestral home and carting them off to China, with one million ethnic Chinese taking their place in Tibet.

So perhaps it has nothing to do with consistency, after all.

Perhaps it’s simply a question of Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton - as well as Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu - being held to ransom by a pathetically immature US president.

(With thanks to Yaakov Kirschen, Israel, who regularly publishes exquisite social and political commentary in cartoon form in the Dry Bones Blog: http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/family-relationship.html)


A president who is tough on his nation’s colleagues and allies, but soft on his nation’s enemies. A president who sets greater store by personal prestige than by strategic sensibilities. A president who has keener affiliations with the Muslim world than with the Western world.

Incomprehensively, Obama keeps trying to force Israel to pay the price for Palestinian Arab intransigence. "Intransigence"? Yup. This week the Palestinian Arabs - both the extremist Islamist Hamas and the extremist secular PA - joined forces to launch a violent yet comically named "Day of Rage" (read also here) to protest Israel's rebuilding of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem. This is the synagogue that the Palestinian Arabs destroyed in 1948. Absorb it: the Palestinian Arabs are protesting the rebuilding of a Jewish religious site that they destroyed, and claim that by doing so they are protecting the freedom of their own religious sites. So much for adherents of what is constantly being touted as the "religion of peace". Read here an unguardedly honest view of one Muslim cleric on the implications of his own religion. (Hat tip to blogger Loganswarning).

No comment from Obama, Biden or Clinton on this either. They seem to have an innate inability to comment on any negative steps taken by Muslim regimes or on any expressions of Muslim extremism as stemming from ... well ... Islam.



Of course, perhaps the US administration is simply far too busy cowering in the face of the increasingly strident position being taken by Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Turkey.

See a common denominator?


For expert analysis from a broad range of perspectives, read the following:
Naomi Ragen
Barry Rubin
Yossi Klein Halevy
Noah Pollak
David Frum
Michael Fenenbock
Washington Post

Is Barack Hussein Obama the only politician to focus unfairly on the Jewish people and on Israel?
Here's what's going on in Sweden: Read Rosie DiManno in The Star.

From this blog:
Swedish Prime Minister Candidate Sacrifices Swedish Jews' Security for Muslim Votes by guest writer Peter Rubinstein
Turkey's Erdogan and Sweden's Reepalu: Twin Souls

Överraskad?

Nu kommer beviset för att Hamas använde barn som mänskliga sköldar, moskéer som ammunitionsförråd och sjukhus som militära sambandscentral under sitt krig mot Israel.
Beviset kommer att ignoreras av omvärlden.

Dels för att det är judar som presenterar beviset.

Och dels för att islamisterna säger att det inte är sant.

Då är resultatet givet redan på förhand.

Bilder, ljudupptagningar, filmer, kartor – inget räcker för att Israel ska kunna bevisa islamistiska Hamas cynism, manipulation och grymhet.

Inte se, inte höra, inte säga.

Apsamhället är här.

Ändå kastar islamisterna förolämpningar på judar genom att kalla just judarna för apors (och grisars) avkommor.

Det gör både politiker ...

... och religiösa ledare.

En märklig värld vi lever i.

Relevanta länkar:

Hamas använder barn som mänskliga sköldar

Hamas använde 100 moskéer under kriget

Goldstonerapporten inte värd papperet den är skriven på

Oproportionerlig tystnad

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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The unholy trinity

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.

The Palestinians want neither Partnership nor Peace

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.

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.

Oproportionerlig tystnad

Hamas sköt uppemot 10 000 missiler mot civila israeliska mål under åtta år – hela 2922 dagar.

Islamistregimen avkrävs nu en undersökning av illdåden. Men endast illdåden under de tre veckorna som Israel besvarade eldgivningen i januari förra året.

Under just dessa tre veckor lyckades inte Hamas missiler döda mer än en handfull israeler.

Därför är organisationen mer än beredd att ”be om ursäkt” (en ursäkt som senare drogs tillbaka) för dessa dödsfall – för under samma period dödades flera hundra palestinska araber – till överväldigande del stridande i civil mundering (ett brott mot Genèvekonventionerna) men även ett relativt stort antal civila. Detta på grund av Hamas förkärlek för mänskliga sköldar i form av palestinsk-arabiska barn och vuxna, moskéer och sjukhus, lägenheter och skolor.

Kravet på en undersökning och ursäkt passar Hamas väldigt bra eftersom regimen kan understryka den numerära diskrepansen mellan förlusterna på israelisk respektive palestinsk-arabisk sida. Detta eftersom kravet på undersökningen helt ignorerar de föregående åtta års missilbeskjutningar mot israeliska samhällen, självmordsbombningar mot israeliska civila, avrättningar av civila israeliska bilister, med mera.

Det höjs många arabiska röster mot detta FN-sponsrade förevigande av konflikten. Till och med palestinsk-arabiska röster höjs mot den cynism, den elaka brist på medmänsklighet mot det egna folket, som Hamas visar. Palestinska Myndigheten – inte precis känd för att vara vänligt sinnad mot den judiska staten – säger att Hamas ”tror de är väldigt smarta när deras ledare leker med ord. De anser detta vara ett fundament för sin policy, men de inser inte att denna metod tillhör medeltiden och att den inte ger rörelsen vare sig respekt eller erkännande”.

Att islamistregimen Hamas gör allt för att dels undvika sitt medmänskliga ansvar och dels föreviga en konflikt som grundas i ren och skär antisemitism en är en sak. Att deras bundsförvanter i Libanon, Hizbollah – likt Hamas finansierade och tränade av Iran – spär på med de grövsta av antisemitiska lögnen om judiskt ritualmord och annat gör bara saken värre.

Bloggen MXp skriver också förträffligt och utförligt i ämnet.

Värst av allt är dock omvärldens tystnad.

Goldstonerapporten avkräver Israel ansvar för dess 22 dagar långa svar på 2922 dagars palestinsk-arabisk missilbeskjutning från Gaza mot civila israeler i sina hem, skolor, affärer och sjukhus i Israel.

Denna brist på proportionalitet är alarmerande. Omvärldens tystnad ekar medan Hamas och Hizbollah ökar i styrka och Iran bygger vidare på sina kärnvapen. Bloggaren och analytikern Dick Haas skriver så sent som idag att Irans ledare stolt medger sina planer på att omintetgör den judiska staten. Samtidigt som till exempel Ryssland garanterar Irans säkerhet genom att leverera avancerad missilutrustning till islamisterna i Teheran så att regimen kan ostört fortsätta bygga på sin kärnvapenarsenal.

Tacksamt nog finns det många analytiker på plats i Mellanöstern som inser att man har experimenterat nog med att reflexmässigt be till samma altare decennier i ända utan att ha minsta chans för förändring eller framgång.

Kanske främst bland dessa uppfriskande källor är bloggen ”I Gilboas svala skugga”. Där kan man läsa något så oheligt (med svenska ögon betraktat) som ifrågasättande av den heliga graalen – alltså denna av palestinierna själva motarbetade ”Tvåstatslösningen”. En chimär, en hägring av något som aldrig existerat i palestiniernas vildaste fantasi men som den blåögde omvärlden mest av allt vill ha för att lindra sitt samvete.

Två stater för två folk.

Men som PLOs centrala kommittémedlem Zahir Muhsein så förträffligt uttalade saken den 31 mars 1977 i den holländska tidningen Trouw:

”Det palestinska folket existerar inte. Skapandet av en palestinsk stat är bara ett sätt att fortsätta kampen mot staten Israel för att uppnå arabisk enighet. I verkligheten finns det ingen skillnad mellan jordanier, palestinier, syrier och libaneser. Det är bara av politiska och taktiska skäl som man talar om existensen av ett palestinskt folk, eftersom det arabiska nationella intresset kräver att man hävdar existensen av ett särskilt palestinskt folk för att motarbetar sionismen.”

När kommer omvärlden att ta palestinierna på allvar? För visst måste det anses vara ett utslag av grov rasism om man anser att man aldrig kan lita på en arab eller muslim – även när han säger i Teheran att han avser att utplåna det judiska landet, när han säger i Holland att det inte existerar ett ”palestinskt folk”, när han säger i Gaza City att judar är avkommor till grisar och apor, när han predikar i Mahmoud Abbas egen statliga TV-station att judar måste dödas varhelst de finns, när han uppkallar gator och torg i Ramallah efter de massmördare som har lyckats med bedriften att döda så många oskyldiga civila judar som möjligt?

Fanatiker skriker ut sitt nakna rasistiska budskap, och ju högre de skriker ut det, desto mindre tycks omvärlden kunna tro det.

Den moderna rasismen: omvärlden tror inte att en arab eller muslim någonsin kan tala sanning. Även när han gör det.

Det är riktig rasism.

 
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