A few thoughts about this very bad idea taking root in Moder Svea:
“Ex-moderate Muslim to form ‘anti-Zionist’ party in Sweden.”
http://www.thelocal.se/23052/20091103/
Transferring the Middle East to Sweden. Jimmie Åkesson may have a point here.
Whatever next?
So Mohamed Omar of Uppsala wants to launch his anti –Zionist party here in Sweden of all places instead of in Gaza, Judea or Samaria? I wonder what Beatrice Ask thinks about this? Freedom of assembly and freedom of speech certainly, but most certainly not as part of the Moderate wing of her Moderate party? Or the Folk-Party? Or Jimmie Åkesson’s right wing? This giving succor to the enemy reminds me of Ted Heath’s question in the British House of Commons after his girlfriend (English joke) the Iron Lady had bombed Qadhafi – Mr. Heath enquired why the Iron Lady had not extended the bombing to Philadelphia and Chicago, known headquarters not only for funding the IRA?
Mohamed should listen to this:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133897
In my opinion – and I’m sure about this, Mohamed Omar would be most welcome to carry on with his party activities in Tehran, or to take his business to Damascus although I doubt that he would be allowed to complicate matters some more in Cairo or Amman or even in Khartoum in the Sudan, or Riyadh in Saudi Arabia….
Aren’t the regional anti-Zionists and anti-Semites already active and bringing more trouble with them wherever they are given a free haven to operate – and this is a serious question – isn’t it likely that they could also attract some terrorist elements, even if all that Mohamed now wants to do is to formally bring all the anti-Isreal people together under one umbrella, here in the more permissive atmosphere provided by Moder Svea?
Such considerations necessitate another Mission: Operation Clear The Air, this time addressing the ecology of anti-Zionist mentalities in this brief response to the unwelcome news item about Mohamed Omar’s intentions.
I pray that that his niyat comes to what the Italians call ”niente”
And this takes me all the way to a little workshop-discussion that took place at Stockholm University on World Democracy Day, 15th September 2009, sponsored by UNDP-IDEA and the Law School Association of Stockholm University. The theme of the day was WOMEN and based on the twin principles of Freedom and Equality.
It was a daylong event which started at 1300 hrs ( a follow-up from Gunilla Carlsson’s opening night before at Stadsteatern) and after the intense debate on the subject of Gender Equality as a pillar of Democracy in which Mark Salter a senior programme officer of IDEA, obliterated his opponent Rumbidzai Kandawasvika-Nhundu with progressive gender ideas that would have made Nyamko Sabuni make Mark her right hand man for Africa) I popped in to Seminar 1 “Women and girls in crises – from Victims of war to builders of peace” just at the point at which Dr. Vanessa Farr was settling down on her platform about the Israeli incursion into Gaza and the effects thereof.
I don’t know whether Mohamed Omar was there but there were a couple of ladies in hijab and obvious Muslim gentlemen ( no talibanic beards) some with Middle Eastern looks and Muslim garb (I have a keen eye for Islamic and Jewish paraphernalia) and altogether about a dozen people in the room sitting on chairs almost in a circle all paying rapt attention to what Dr. Farr was saying – and being aware of that presence, she must have also been consciously responding to it . She said that in that Gaza incursion the IDF took out the industrial capacity of the Gazans and that this affected the Middle Class terribly according to UNDP reports about the Gaza war and UNDP damage assessment… and this was the unexpected outcome of discussing what had happened…. What she said – and she had a lot to say — I have two pages of notes covering the twenty minutes of that discussion but when she said that Israel DID NOT allow any aid to get through to Gaza I had to object – because that was simply NOT TRUE – - and we have to make a distinction between development aid and HUMANITARIAN aid …. ( she was sitting there calmly, telling those assembled that Israel did not allow any aid …. Indeed, when is development aid allowed through in the middle of a military operation? It was necessary to make that distinction between development aid and humanitarian aid which she had not made prior to my question . and there’s the other question of where does conflict crisis end and development begin?
These are the facts about humanitarian aid to Gaza, during and after the conflict:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7869704.stm
As for Goldstone, looka here
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/UnitedNations_94/5645_94.htm
http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=18088#comments