Sunday, August 30, 2009
There's some interesting stuff going on in the comments of Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's blog. Someone named "Yal67" has taken up the task of doing most of the posting in support of his country (Israel). Here's a comment from a sympathetic Swede:
The Swedes have no oppinion on Israel but that which we are fed.
In Swedish media, Israel is equivalent to palestinian suffering. The rest is boycotted. Israel is a non-country in Swedish media, pharia.
It is impossible to report anything from Israel in Swedish TV without mentioning the palestinian side. For instance, the only excuse to tell about Tel Aviv is in order to intervew Israeli opposition to the occupation.
Swedish media has boycotted Israel for a long long time. Have no illusions about anything else. So yal67, when you explain that there is another side to the coin, keep in mind that we simply do not understand what you are talking about.
We have been brain washed good. The biggest joke is that yiddish is a minority language in Sweden, while arabic is not. There are 17 000 jews in Sweden and more than 500 000 muslims.
We have a law against antisemitism too. The functions of these signs of tolerance and safety are to show that Israel is not needed. This in spite of the fact that there is real antisemitism spewing from mosques and established media alike.
Somewhere however, the Swedes are subconciously aware of a possible alternative reality but they know not how to access it due to the media administrated lobotomy, besides the brain washing.
So, in all friendness, do not underestimate the task which you have taken on.
Swimming against the tide of what's become conventional wisdom is never easy.
Related: It's open season on Israel
If you read Bildt's remarks on the "Aftonbladet affair," as he refers to it, he acknowledges that anti-Semitism (and for that matter, Islamophobia -- such as this blog is peddling) also exists but that a vigilant society should try to be aware of it and combat it, as Sweden is. He makes a distinction between the Parliament, which has spoken out strongly against anti-Semitism, and the judiciary, which prosecutes hate crimes. He mentions that Sweden was one of the countries who walked out of the Durban II conference, and ends with the statement that a single article in a free press should not define an entire nation's relationship to Israel, and that Sweden desires to deepen relations with Israel.
Sounds reasonable to me. Keep convincing yourself that "they're all against us." This is paranoid claptrap.
David,
I think you should read the comments on that blog. use google translation from Swedish to English.
Daoud, after 9/11, 7/7/05 bombings in london, bombing of Pan Am 103, bombing of the USS Cole, Beltway Sniper, Mumbai massacre, Bali, genocidal threats by your islamofascist regime of iran, murder of wheelchair bound Leon Klinghoffer, assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, failed sneaker bomber convert to islam richard reid, video taped beheading of JOURNALIST Daniel Pearl...
you think a little "islamophobia" is NOT appropriate?
David,
Sweden was very quick to condemn the Danish/Mohammad cartoons in the Danish paper and damn freedom of the press in its criticism.
So it seems that for Jews there is a double standard.