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– published in Aftonbladet, the tabloid that brought the world the unresearched, unproven, refuted and subsequently withdrawn allegations of Jewish and Israeli plundering of Arab organs for profit – reads “Red-Green Collaboration for a free Palestine.”

The Communist/Left Party component of this unholy trinity demands that Swedish troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan.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.

Why Carl Bildt is driving the Israelis up the wall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Per Gudmundson

per.gudmundson@svd.se

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

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

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

EU buys Swedish votes

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

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

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

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

That’s just this week.

And it’s only Tuesday lunchtime.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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