It needs to be read by as many as possible”!!!

I think it is of general interest to know Mankell’s views on Israel from its establishment to the present day.

When the Swedish part of the Ship to Gaza campaign was launched at a gala event at Södra Teatern (Southern Theatre) in Stockholm August 15th 2009, Henning Mankell made an extensive speech on how he saw the present situation in Israel and Palestine. He also talked about his views on Israel, how it was established and how he viewed the state, comparing it to South Africa during the apartheid days and how he sees the future for the Jewish state.

I have translated as literally as possible from the text http://www.shiptogaza.se/sv/henning-mankell-om-gaza which still is present at the Swedish Ship to Gaza website:

On Israel as a state and its establishment:

“It’s like experiencing a ghost raising from its grave. It’s like watching the South African Apartheid system arise again from the historical scrap heap where it was finally dumped around 15 years ago…

But one cannot of course compare South Africa with Israel and Palestine. There are historical differences that in many ways are decisive. The Israeli state was established after World War II when the shattered Jewish people had all bloody aces on hand (my italics). After what Nazism had done to all the groups of “untermenschen” of which the Jews had formed such a large group.

One can consider or play with the thought that if it today in 2009 had been possible to so quickly and easily establish a state as Israel (was established). On occupied land where other people were to be expelled. Of course not….

It is important to never forget this, that Israel is created on the basis of an occupation. Nothing else. The whole present structure of the state is based upon developing this occupation. ..

On the two-state solution and suicide attacks “

“What will the future look like? There I think the people gathered here today aren’t all agreed. Many, perhaps most people here, think a two-state solution is the future solution that must be implemented to dismantle the terrorist Israeli state. (For me that the more or less desperate bomb attacks, suicide attacks and the like, is an expression of the Palestinian resistance, no more no less: resistance against an occupation power. It is not more noteworthy than the fact that Norwegian resistance liquidated renegades or quislings during the Nazi occupation. If one is oppressed, one responds with resistance).

….My alternative (to the two-state solution) is: what you can call the rainbow-state after South Africa. A land where open elections will lead the popular majority, the Arabs or Palestinians to get to a position of power (my italics). But those who have previously oppressed them will be granted full civil rights – without privileges – in the country.”

On Page 17 Christina Patterson, referring to the aid boat interception, queries whether “the actions of violent racist thugs against peaceful protesters are a move towards peace in the Middle East.”

On Page 47 . . . wait for it, guess who it is? Yes, it’s Richard Ingrams!! Here he intones about “a country that pursues an apartheid policy in land which it has illegally occupied by force, that thinks little of killing large numbers of innocent civilians . . .” blah, blah blah, before inevitably ending with the Tory party’s policy on the Middle East being “largely dictated by the Zionist lobby.” Seems somewhat contrary to Robin Shepherd’s next post on here, wouldn’t you say?

Finally to round things off, how about the advert taken out by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign on Page 32 (whose logo by the way is a map of the State of Israel), with the headline “BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS.” Has anyone started a blog yet showing the availability of Israeli goods so that I can go out and buy lots more of them?

And to think I’m only half-way through the paper.

I think no one commenting before me discovered the true root cause of the issue.

Wendy: “I think it could be described as ‘ moral inversion’ Naomi;or the flat earth mentality. An irrational and passionately held belief which flies in the face of decency,common sense and evidence.” Yes, yes, but still not good enough wendy. Sorry. These are just the symptoms, but not the disease.

What is the disease then?

The most fascinating country in the Western world,- and civilization to study and research today is Sweden. Sweden?????!!!!!! Yes, Sweden.
What happened to Sweden is happening to ALL the countries without excpetion, only the people don’t realize anything — yet.

The root cause of everything is the – according to modern political studies – is the so-called IVth branch of power, beside the other 3: legislative, executive and judicial. It’s called: the MEDIA (plural) or conservatively called: “press”.

This is *IT*. Nothing else. In Sweden – but in almost all other places too – some few thousand (politically hard-left radical) people hijacked the country since the early-middle 60s. (Of course the judiciary and the political establishment played their necessary parts as well. Britain – thank God still did not reach so far, but its judiciary definitely DID.) They dictate nearly eevrything that goes in the country (Sweden). Without wishing to appear as a freak, I am not readily available to freaky conspiracy theories.

If you read Jean Sevillia’s book (former editor of the conservative Le Figaro, a mainstream newspaper in France): The terrorism of intelligentsia, then you realize that those on the barricades in Paris and elswhere in France in ’68 and later are the ones today who are largely (not totally, not exclusively, but largely) call the shots and pull the strings. Not just in France, but mostly everywhere in Western-Europe and the anglo-saxon world (USA, CDN, AUS, NZ etc.)

IF the media had not constantly crowed about the Gaza, what Gaza!, the so-caled Palestinian lie (one of the biggest lies in the XXth century in my opinion) daily, then no one would be talking about Gaza now, there wouldn’t have been Rachel Corries and Tom Hurdalls and others then(dupes of the lie – well, only partly true in Corrie’s case, since she was an insane bloodthirsty terror-supporter as evidenced by the photographs that were taken in Seattle at “Evergreen College” – an extremist place of higher learning in name only – showing the raging face of a maniac/fanatic in the midts of the burning American flag). THEN the world’s perspective and thinking would be totally different – and let me say, sane or saner.
But this is not the case, and the reason this is not the case is the fact that a few thousands nearly everywhere hijacked their countries, nations and their so-called public opinion.
It’s quite diddicult to make a difference between fascism and “communism” in this case.

Back to Sweden:
Many people say that Sweden will be the first country in Europe that will cease to exist somewhere in the XXI century. This is all, but certain. Well, I couldn’t care lss about the wellbeing of the Swedes. If they were stupid enough, their problem. But others should learn from their case. Sweden is a “democracy” in all but name today. It’s a soft totalitarian dictature. A built-in Taliban-style pseudo-democracy in Europe. How many of you KNOW that Sweden (just like Norway, but even ther the rules are looser) has a state-run press-commission that readily finances publication according to their “needs”? That even the European Union has deemed it contrary to democratic values and fundamental principles and urged it to stop. In vain.
Sweden’s humanitarian champion PR is a ruse and a sick trick. And the world fall for it. Why on earth do you think that the Guardian claimed that “Sweden is the most successful stae of History ever”. Not kidding. Why do you think that is? And what actually would be prepared to do with their own conutry if had the opportunity.
If we are not aler we will end up like Sweden.

Aux armés citoyens!

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/04/fjordman-jihad-and-the-collapse-of-the-swedish-model.html

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/04/resignation-rules.html – (this is part 3 and former parts of the series available before)

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177445

This is the first footage I’ve seen taken by the “innocent activists” themselves and it is by far the most damning…

http://weaselzippers.us/

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An Open Letter to Turkey

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/06/open-letter-to-turkey.html