Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Back to the frozen north for this one. Finnish Columnist, Pentti Sadeniemi, isn't much up on his history of the region, or the peoples who inhabit it. Tundra Tabloids reports:
...In an essay meant to disparage states and national groups that continue to maintain claims on lands lost through war and time, Sadeniemi labels the Israelis as the "clear record holders of such a group whose traditional right of ownership of Palestine produced both a written and archeological somewhat historical record based on pure mythology"...
...Unfortunately Sadeniemi's type of animosity that is directed towards the state of Israel, is not an uncommon occurrence in the Finnish news media.
This is in part due to the lack of discourse which stems from the "culture of consensus" that is apparent in Finnish society. It directly effects debate which usually results in the lack thereof. Anyways, my response/rebuttal intended for the op-ed section of the same paper appears below...
Tundra Tabloids author KGS's response is included (in English) in the entry.
One wonders where this is leading.
The Palestinians have attained the glow of myth themselves, both history and actual current reality obscured in a sort of fever to re-create a world that never existed: the peaceful, prosperous, autonomous State of Palestine.
Meanwhile, the people who actually built and inhabit Israel, what will become of them?
Though it does not receive as much news coverage, the anti-Israel sentiment in Scandinavia is as bad as it is anywhere else in the world, including in countries such as France. There's a reason why I have not bought anything originating in Scandinavia (with the exception of a Skagen watch, which I purchased to show solidarity with Denmark during the Mohammed Cartoon Kerfuffle) for six years (and counting).