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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Ödesdigert val i Sverige: antingen lika rättigheter för alla, eller Ilmar Reepalu

Idag är det minnesdagen för de 6 miljoner judiska offren som för drygt 60 år sedan selekterades för den värsta antisemitiska slakten i modern tid, Förintelsen.

Samma dag väljer socialdemokraten Ilmar Reepalu, kommunalråd Malmö stad, att säga följande:

• Sionism – den judiska nationalrörelsen som är fundamentet för staten Israel – är ”oacceptabel”. Reepalu deklarerar ändå i samma intervju att ”Vi hanterar inte utrikespolitik i kommunen. Lagen förbjuder det.”
• Reepalu anser att sionism, den judiska nationalrörelsen, är en ”ytterlighet … som sätter sig över andra grupper och anser att de är mindre värda.” Ett egendomligt påstående med tanke på att 20 procent av den sionistiska staten Israel består av araber – både muslimer och kristna – samt att Israel är det enda landet i hela Mellanöstern som tar emot muslimska flyktingar som flyr muslimska pogromer mot andra muslimer i till exempel Darfur. Sionisterna anser även att andra grupper är så mycket mindre värda att de åker världen runt för att undsätta katastrofdrabbade grupper av hinduer i Indien, muslimer i Turkiet, kristna i Haiti, svarta i Kenya, asiater i Kina. Och samtidigt transporterar flera hundratusen ton förnödenheter till en regim i Gaza som har som deklarerat mål att utradera den sionistiska staten. Intressant i sammanhanget är att Reepalu inte har några kommentarer om några andra nationalrörelser. Endast den judiska nationalrörelsen selekteras för kritik.
• Israel – judarnas hemland – är en ”varböld”. Reepalu har inga kommentarer om några andra folks hemländer. Endast det judiska hemlandet selekteras för kritik.
• Judar som vägrar uttalar stark kritik mot Israel ”sänder fel signaler” till sin omgivning. Reepalu har inga kommentarer om några andra religiösa eller etniska grupper som vägrar kritisera sitt eget hemland. Han har till exempel inte krävt att Malmös muslimer måste starkt kritisera Iran, Somalia, Saudiarabien, Palestinska myndigheten eller Egypten för dokumenterade brott mot de mänskliga rättigheterna, han anser inte att de ”sänder fel signaler” till sin omgivning om de inte yttrar kritik. Endast judarna selekteras för kritik.
• Judar som demonstrerar stöd för Israel får skylla sig själva om de blir utsatta för våld. Reepalu har inga kommentarer om andra grupper som demonstrerar sitt stöd för olika länder som Iran eller terrorgrupper som Hamas.
• Den enda antisemitism som finns, enligt Reepalu, kommer från ”högerkanten”; någon vänsterantisemitism eller islamistisk antisemitism finns inte. Trots polisens och SÄPOs undersökningar som bevisar motsatsen.
• Det judiska landet Israels rätt till självförsvar är oacceptabel enligt Reepalu. 10 000 Hamasmissiler från Gaza avfyrade under 8 år mot israeliska städer kommenteras inte av socialdemokraten Reepalu. Först när judarna svarar på bombardemanget sporras han till kommentar – med att Israels svar är ”oproportionerligt”. Israels svar på dessa 2922 dagars missilbeskjutning varade i 22 dagar. Detta om proportionalitet.

Ovanstående dråpslag mot demokratiska värdegrunder och medmänsklighet fäller alltså socialdemokraten Ilmar Reepalu på minnesdagen för de 6 miljoner judar som selekterades för döden under Förintelsen.

Något är oerhört ruttet i ett Sverige, i en svensk socialdemokrati, där en Ilmar Reepalu får lov att sitta kvar.

Vakna Mona Sahlin – för Sveriges anseendes skull.

 
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Al-Hamatzav
Fredrik Axelsson
Adam Cwejman
Fredrik Thoresson
Svenska Dagbladet
UNT
Patrik Öhberg och Eli Göndör
Samfundet Sverige-Israel
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Tundra Tabloids

Minnesdagen för Förintelseoffren: om konsten att inte vilja se eller höra

Snart är det Förintelsens minnesdag.

Den dag då vi kommer ihåg offren för det största fabriksmässiga försöket i modern tid att utrota ett helt folk - det judiska folket. Det är tyvärr långt ifrån det enda försöket till folkutrotning i vår tid. Rwanda, Darfur, Kambodja, Armenien, Kurdistan är bland de värsta i modern tid.

Förintelsen var en uppfinning av Nazityskland under ledning av en verklighetsfrämmande, fullständigt galen despot vid namn Adolf Hitler. Hans försök till utrotning av judarna i hela världen avslutades med hans föga hedervärda död meddelst självmord år 1945. Vid hans död hade 6 miljoner judar slaktats enbart för att de var judar, samt många miljoner andra människor som han inte ansåg hade rätt att leva - romer, politiska motståndare, homosexuella och många fler grupper. Och det innan man ens räknar alla miljoner soldater som pressades in i ett vansinneskrig som påverkade vartenda land, varenda människa världen över.

Men Hitlers arv lever kvar än idag. I allra högsta grad.

Nazismens förespråkare idag talar inte tyska. De talar arabiska och persiska. Men även svenska - läs vad Gulan Avci skriver om islamisten Mohammed Omar och Förintelseförnekelse. Läs även Fredrik Malm, Tommy Hansson, Fred i Mellanöstern, Expressen i ämnet.

Lika lite som att alla tyskar var hängivna nazister för 65 år sedan, lika lite är alla araber eller iranier idag antijudiska, bokstavstrogna rasister med världsherravälde på önskelistan.

Men precis som nazisterna lyckades dra in en hel värld i ett förödande världskrig där den enande kraften var antisemitism, lyckas dagens nazistiska arvtagare i arabvärlden och Iran dra in alla muslimer i ett lika världsomspännande vågspel.

Mot den enskildes vilja.

För någon fri vilja, någon frihet att uttrycka sin egen mening, har inte folket i arabvärlden eller i Iran.

Vare sig i Iran eller någonstans i arabvärlden (läs Egyptens Al-Ahram) är demokrati tillåten. Hela världen - förutom Iran och arabvärlden - ser Hamas som en terroristorganisation men ändå finns Hamasstyret högst på listan av mottagare för ekonomisk hjälp från omvärlden. Trots att Hamas sedan nästan fyra år idkar människohandel med judar.

Svenska Diakonia, till exempel, arbetar oproportionerligt mycket med de muslimska palestinierna i Gazaremsan och på Västbanken och har ingen hjälpverksamhet i det kristna Haiti, trots att det sistnämnda landet i decennier har varit ett samhälle med stora behov av såväl sociala som ekonomiska hjälpinsatser. Och det innan man ens räknar in de omfattande behoven efter den förödande jordbävningen för snart två veckor sedan. Läs i Expressen en intressant artikel om svenskt bistånd rent generellt.

Det finns något mycket oroväckande i en västvärld som blundar för den islamistiska världens kultur av systematiserat judehat, som blundar för de stora behoven i en värld som är under allt hårdare attack från fanatisk islamism, som vägrar inse radikala islams dagordning som går ut på världsherravälde, som totalt ignorerar de grundläggande sociala behoven i den muslimska världen, men som ändå är uppslukade av ett ämne, och endast ett: den judiska staten Israels ständiga försök att överleva i ett hav av islamistiskt hat.

Judarna överlevde Hitlers utrotningsförsök för drygt 60 år sedan.

I dagarna minns vi offren för hans förfärliga försök att utrota ett helt folk.

Dags nu att upphöra med västvärldens besatthet med detta folks land.

Det finns oerhört många utsatta människor som behöver våra insatser. De flesta finns i den muslimska sfären.

Det finns allt fler röster, inklusive muslimska röster - även i Sverige - som kräver att västvärlden börjar ta itu med det verkliga problemet.

Islamism.

En fanatisk sekt inom religionen islam.


Här finns färska länkar till artiklar om antisemitism i Sverige skrivna 2 dagar före Minnesdagen för Förintelsens offer:
Norra Skåne
Skånskan
Skånskan.
Läs här JiMs reflektioner över varför antisemitism växer i Malmö.

Lite mer bakgrundsinformation om islamism och dess länkar till nazism:
Daniel Pipes: Antisemitism utvecklas
Barry Rubin: The suicidal rules of Arab political debate
Ilya Meyer: Hanan Ashrawi: Förintelsen har aldrig ägt rum
Ilya Meyer: Musiken tystnar medan vi leds till vårt öde

The music dies out as the West stumbles on towards its destiny

It’s OK to play music and dance in the streets to celebrate the massacre of civilians on 9/11, but illegal to play music and dance at your own wedding.
Hamas, the government of the Gaza Strip

This is no joke, and no exaggeration. Watch this video, made by a Palestinian Arab, which documents how Hamas kills a bridegroom for playing music at his own wedding.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_OGhj43GAE&feature=fvw

Hamas abuse of civilians and children as part of its racist war against the Jews is well-known, thoroughly documented – and largely ignored.

Read here to find out just how it is that Hamas terrorists are masqueraded as “civilians” – even after they are dead. The deception comes alive even after their death, in the statistics that Hamas and their willing collaborators in the West spread as part of their US- and European government-funded propaganda operations.

Richard Goldstone, in his whitewash of Hamas culpability and his publicly funded targeting of Israel’s self-defense measures, noted that there was “no evidence” that Hamas waged war against Israel from civilian areas and with its fighters dressed in civilian clothing.

Bloggers Elder of Ziyon and Solomonia beg to differ. And they have the video and other evidence to back their claims of Hamas abuse of the Geneva Conventions.

Read Augean Stables for a highly lucid comment on the subject and further video evidence of Hamas tactics.

Of course, Hamas does not only use adult civilians in its propaganda war. Here is a video clip from MEMRI that shows what passes for children’s entertainment on Hamas TV. Raw indoctrination of vulnerable minors, racism of the most brutal sort. It needs to be remembered that the Palestinian Arabs – in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – rely exclusively on the West for their financial well-being. Agriculture, industry and trade have zero priority, it is the West that funds the Palestinian Arab war and propaganda budget.

For a further analysis of just what Hamas is up to, to understand the racist Islamist mindset that drives this and countless similar organisations, and to understand how close the West is to committing collective suicide in the face of the Islamist onslaught, read another piece from Augean Stables.

And there’s more. Bret Stephens, renowned from his senior writing and editorial positions at highly reputable publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post, raises the question of whether the West is competent to safeguard its own civilization in a climate in which Political Correctness has replaced organized religion as the key aspiration for politicians keener to preserve their jobs in the short term than they are to protect their citizens in the long term.

While continuing to routinely ignore human rights abuses in the Arab and Muslim worlds, the West continues to do what is most convenient – kowtow to the threats issuing from the Arab and Muslim worlds and focus instead on delegitimisation and demonisation of the sole democracy in the Middle East. Israel. As many keen observers and analysts have pointed out, it's remarkably like dropping your car keys by mistake and then searching for them under the street light because that's where it's bright and most convenient to search, rather than in the pools of inky darkness in between - where you actually dropped them.

Turning a blind eye to Islamist aggression has become such second nature in the West that few question where we are headed. Fewer still recognize that this is a problem. One of the exceptions to the rule showed itself in Der Spiegel where an editorial by Henryk M Broder pointed out with the utmost clarity that the West is indeed choked by fear. Spiegel also has another highly interesting article entitled “Fears of Eurabia: How Much Allah Can The Old Continent Bear?” Well worth a read for its cool, objective analysis.

The question that begs an answer, of course, is whether the politicians will ever wake up to the occasional clarion calls being sounded by the media. Or whether they will continue to insist that we do not have a problem with any given religion, just with certain nationalities.

In the wake of the attempted terror attack on the civilian airliner in Detroit last Christmas, President Barack Hussein Obama has announced restrictive travel measures for 14 nations.

All are Muslim nations.

But he continues to deny that the US faces a Muslim or Islamist threat.

Either his eyesight is failing, or his intelligence is. And I mean his intelligence, not his intelligence agencies.

They’re never given the chance to do their job. Political Correctness has higher priority than national well-being.

Of course, Obama isn't the only politican suffering from SES - Selective Eyesigt Syndrome. Has-been US President Jimmy Carter has made a name for himself - particularly in the Arab world - for his constant baracking of the world's sole Jewish state. Now he has apologised for hurting the feelings of Israelis and Jews worldwide, apparently in the belief that his scant apology buys him sufficient breathing-space to continue his attacks on the Jewish state. While at the same time continuing to ignore the legion human rights abuses throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds. Read what CAMERA writes in its response to Jimmy Carter.


Read also:
Daniel Pipes: Security Theater Now Playing At Your Airport
Barry Rubin: The Suicidal Rules of Arab Political Debate

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.

Israel måste sluta uppföra rasistiskt

Det är otänkbart att det finns ett slags behandling för judiska israeler, och ett helt annat slags behandling för araber från Västbanken och Gazaremsan.

Gilad Schalit kidnappades som tonåring från Israel. Det hände för tre (3) år sedan.

Alltsedan dess har han hållits inspärrad i en underjordisk bunker, utan möjlighet att ens se solljus. För två dagar sedan släppte Hamas en 2 minuter lång videofilm med honom, i utbyte mot frisläppande av 20 terrorister från Västbanken och Gazaremsan.



Gilad Schalit har inte fått träffa eller på annat sätt komma i kontakt med familjen, Röda Korset, en enda organisation för de mänskliga rättigheterna – men å andra sidan har vare sig Röda Korset eller någon organisation för mänskliga rättigheterna krävt att få träffa honom. Han har inte haft tillgång till advokat – men å andra sidan är han inte anklagad för något brott.

Förutom att vara jude och israel.

Hamasterrorister dömda för mord, massmord och terrorism och som sitter i israeliska fängelser inte bara åtnjuter sina i Israel lagstadgade rättigheter – och de är många: besök från Röda Korset, från organisationer för de mänskliga rättigheterna, från advokater, från familjmedlemmar. De får skriva och ringa till familjmedlemmar.

Israel uppför sig sålunda rasistiskt: Israel accepterar att araber behandlas på ett sätt, men att israeliska judar behandlas på ett helt annat sätt.

Rasism är förkastlig.

Därför bör Israel omgående se till att exakt samma regler tillämpas på de terrordömda araberna från Västbanken och Gazaremsan som sitter i landets fängelse. Precis som i fallet Gilad Schalit bör dessa människor få en enda möjlighet till videokommunikation med omvärlden vart tredje år.

Omvärlden i form av FN, EU, Kvartetten, Palestinska Myndigheten och Hamas är säkert med på noterna, eftersom dessa organisationer är emot rasism.

Lika behandling för alla – hur kan det vara fel?

Detta i avvaktan på undertecknande av ett avtal om frisläppande av varenda terrordömd fånge från israeliska fängelser till sina nya permanenta hem i EU-länderna samt USA (se gårdagens artikel).

Everyone's a winner.

Khaled Meshaal om framtidsutsikter, JPost om vad som väntar

FRIGIVEN !!!

Alltså inte Gilad Schalit.

Utan en video om Gilad Schalit.



När det gäller den ultrareligiösa muslimska terrorgruppen Hamas skall detta betraktas som en positiv utveckling.

Att leka med människors öden är en dygd, enligt Hamas. Att framtvinga terroristers frigivning är en triumf. Att kidnappa en tonåring och sedan hålla honom fången, utmärglad och likblek, i en underjordisk bunker utan tillgång till solljus i mer än tre år, är höjden på strategisk framgång.

Allt enligt den muslimska terrorgruppen Hamas.

Kidnappning är lagvidrigt.

Det tycks inte FN veta. Inte heller EU. Ej heller Röda korset.

Den tonårige israelen Gilad Schalit kidnappades från Israel för mer än tre år sedan.

Totalt tyst i omvärlden.

Hamas, det palestinska regeringspartiet som kidnappade honom, idkar människohandel. De använder Gilad Schalit som bytesobjekt.

Det säger allt om det samhälle och den religion som dessa religiösa fanatiker företräder. Deras aktion görs ju i det palestinska samhällets och den muslimska religionens namn.

Andra tolkare av det palestinska samhället eller den muslimska religionen gör sig icke besvär – det finns endast ett svar och det svaret har Hamas.

Efter mer än tre år har Hamas nu gått med på ett frisläppande.

Inte av pojken, utan av en 2 minuter lång video som visar pojken.

Det första livstecknet på över tre år.

I utbyte fick Hamas 20 dömda terrorister frigivna ur israeliska fängelser.

För att få hela pojken frisläppt kräver Hamas att uppemot 1000 dömda terrorister och massmördare ska släppas från israeliska fängelser.

Hamas annonserar redan nu att fler kidnappningar är på gång eftersom detta visar sig vara en framgångsrik taktik.

Många israeler är upprörda över att 20 terrorister har släppts i utbyte mot bara en 2 minuter lång videofilm om Gilad Schalit.

Jag är inte alls upprörd över det. Tvärtom. Jag hade hellre släppt 2000 terrorister i utbyte mot Gilad Schalit. Fast med några villkor:

1. Endast terrorister med pågående universitetsstudier släpps. Som bekant får palestinska terrorister läsa vid universitetet på bekostnad av den israeliska staten. Israeliska medborgare, å andra sidan, måste betala för att läsa. De måste arbeta för att tjäna ihop till sina egna studiekostnader, sedan måste de arbeta ännu mer för att tjäna till de palestinska terroristernas studiekostnader. Därför blir deras egna studiekostnader så höga.

2. Genom att släppa terrorister innan de fullföljt sina utbildningar, får de ändå ingen akademisk examen i ryggen. Se nedan för detaljer om vem som ska bekosta den färdiga utbildningen.

3. Terroristerna skall förvisas enbart till länder i EU. Inget EU-mottagarland får ta in mindre än 150 frisläppta terrorister, för att trycket verkligen skall kännas av, och i avtalet skall det slås fast att de inte får lov att lämna respektive land på minst 5 år och att hela deras uppehälle skall bekostas av värdlandet. Låt EU börja betala för problemet som de skapat och som de så gärna vill att Israel skall bekosta.

4. Inom ramen för avtalet bör det klargöras att samtliga palestinska terrorister, alltså inte bara dessa 2000, skall släppas under samma villkor inom loppet av ett (1) år. Hälften var till EU-länderna samt till USA.

Vips får Israels ekonomi en plötslig uppryckning.

Det är självklart att såväl EU som USA vill gärna skriva på ett sådant avtal – i ivern att skapa lugn i Mellanöstern vill de naturligtvis att terroristernas fångenskap ska upphöra. De är nog lika ivriga på villkoren som de har varit ivriga i sitt fördömande av Gilad Schalits olagliga fångenskap.

Imorgon ska jag kandidera till posten som FNs Generalsekreterare, jag tror jag har en ovanligt välutvecklad problemlösningsförmåga.

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Mummy Knows Best

“As [US] President Barack Obama has made clear, the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine.”
JIMMY CARTER (former president of the United States)

“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”
LILLIAN CARTER (mother of Jimmy Carter)

Question:
When does self-delusion cease to be a personal embarrassment and start becoming an existential threat?

Answer:
When an unhealthy obsession with the world’s sole Jewish state overrides everything else.

That perpetual jack-in-the-box of American politics, Jimmy Carter, just keeps popping up everywhere, with startling irregularity but predictable effect.

You’ve got to feel sorry for Hussein Obama.

Not only is he America’s first president from an ethnic minority.

Not only has he so far succeeded in getting absolutely everything wrong on the international political horizon.

Not only has he trashed America’s reputation and image internationally.

Not only has he succeeded in the amazing feat of losing the support and respect of both Arabs and Israelis at one and the same time.

He is also being constantly shadowed – some would say overshadowed – by has-beens from the Democratic Party who have also made their mark on US history and Middle East events. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton just won’t disappear off the US political stage.

The UN Climate Summit has Bill Clinton basking in the media floodlights, while the situation in the Middle East sees Jimmy Carter making one increasingly bizarre statement after the other.

Jimmy Carter is of the considered opinion that “the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine”. Really? The key obstacle wouldn’t be the Arabs’ refusal to cease their constant barrage of anti-Semitic propaganda via the state media, in school textbooks, in mosques?

The key obstacle wouldn’t be their insistence on a Palestine ethnically cleansed of Jews, while demanding that the Jewish state of Israel become home to a flood of Arab immigrants in addition to the 20 or so percent of Arabs who already make up the population of Israel?

The key obstacle wouldn’t be the Arab states’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish nation-state, while at the same time repeatedly demanding that Palestine be recognized as an Arab nation-state – the 22nd such state in the Middle East?

The key obstacle wouldn’t be Iran's strident calls to wipe Israel off the map, accompanied by repeated Holocaust denials and a rapid burst of activity in the final hours of its pursuit of nuclear weapons to allow it to do just that?

The key obstacle wouldn’t be the fact that it is only under Israeli rule that the holy sites of the three main monotheistic religions have finally been opened freely to all worshippers, that Jewish and Christian sites were desecrated under Muslim rule, and that more of the same is on offer should Israel relinquish control over its own capital city?

The key obstacle wouldn’t be the fact that Jerusalem has over the past 1400 years of Islam’s existence never been mentioned once in the Muslim holy scriptures? That it has never figured once in any Muslim prayer, never been the capital city of any Muslim state, never figured on any Muslim coin? While at the same time being named 669 times in the Jewish holy scriptures, served as the capital of Jewish nations over the millennia, and has had a continuous Jewish population since time immemorial – since way before either Islam or Christianity were born.

It seems to be beyond the ken of Jimmy Carter’s limited powers of reasoning that it takes two to tango. Israel was offered peace with Egypt – and promptly pulled out of all of Sinai, handing over the only oil reserves it has ever had. Israel was offered peace with Jordan – and promptly built up joint industrial and agricultural zones for the benefit of both nations and peoples.

Israel tried kick-starting a similar process in the Lebanon by pulling completely out of that country – even though southern Lebanon had repeatedly been used as the launching pad for vicious attacks on Israel. The result was all-out war. Instigated by Iran’s Hizbollah militia invading Israel, killing and kidnapping Israelis and then unleashing thousands of rockets on civilian Israelis from Lebanese territory.

One bad experience doth not a trend make, so Israel tried kick-starting a similar process in Gaza by pulling out completely – even digging up the dead for reburial in Israel, so insistent were the Gaza Arabs on a Jew-free, ethnically cleansed Gaza Strip. The result was all-out war. Instigated by Iran’s Hamas militia invading Israel, killing and kidnapping Israelis and then unleashing thousands of rockets on civilian Israelis from Gaza territory. Now THERE'S a trend.

Jimmy Carter doesn’t see that any of this prevents peace in the Middle East.

They say “Mummy Knows Best”. It was never truer than in the case of Lillian Carter. Just think how much anguish could have been prevented if only she’d had the courage of her convictions.

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Read also Alan Dershowitz's 6-part exposé of Jimmy Carter, "Ex-President for Sale":
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6,