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| Swedish FM cancels Israel trip amid tensions between nations |
| 2009-09-06 |
| [Jerusalem Post Front Page] Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has cancelled a planned trip to Israel on September 11, against the background of Israeli anger at the Swedish government's refusal to condemn an article in a Swedish newspaper accusing IDF soldiers of killing Palestinians and harvesting their organs. While Swedish officials told The Jerusalem Post late last week that the visit was in doubt, Israeli diplomatic officials said Saturday night that the visit had definitely been cancelled. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was considering not meeting Bildt unless he condemned the article in the tabloid Aftonbladet, something the Swedish government - citing freedom of the press - has adamantly refused to do. Netanyahu gave vent to Israel's disappointment over the matter during a meeting last week in Jerusalem with visiting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana. During that meeting, Netanyahu said that no one was expecting the Swedes to restrict freedom of the press, but that it was reasonable to expect the government to speak out against the type of defamation that in the past had led to the mass murder of Jews. Sweden currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, and Bildt's failure to visit here will have an impact on the country's ability during its term as president to have any real say on the diplomatic process. Ironically, while the Swedes continued to refuse to condemn the article, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos said Saturday in Stockholm that he regretted the Spanish newspaper El Mundo's decision to run an interview Saturday with Holocaust denier David Irving as part of a retrospective on the start of World War II 70 years ago. "The foreign minister, while maintaining the most absolute respect for freedom of expression, regrets that space was given to a historian who denies one of the biggest tragedies for humanity in modern history," a spokesman for Moratinos said. "These types of statements deeply hurt the Jewish people." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Remember : it's not that important to be happy, it's almost as to have others be unhappier than you. Posted by anonymous5089 Let us not forget to blame America for past misdeeds, betrayal, and debauchery. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-06 17:19 |
| #5 Yeah, but won't it be absolutely DELIGHTFUL to have all those let's-save-Gaia types bitch and complain because they can't fill up their gas tank, can't heat their house, can't afford good food, basically can't enjoy the luxuries of capitalist industrial socieiries? Comedy gold. Remember : it's not that important to be happy, it's almost as to have others be unhappier than you. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-06 17:10 |
| #4 My own pet fantasy is that the Sh8t will hit the fan eventually, The only downside I see anonymous5089 is that gasoline will spike to $ 19.50 per gallon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-06 16:58 |
| #3 will know the difference. No need to Samson-option us*, I kinda like to enjoy the idea we're in the Biblical End Times. My own pet fantasy is that the Sh8t will hit the fan eventually, in ways no one really anticipated, but it will manage to follow the "script", yet fool everyone into thinking it's not. So, I actually am rather optimistical, in a way. *Disclaimerv : I would VERY happy if you (or someone else, for that matter) nuked Paris and got us rid of the Enlightened Elites... ***except*** that I would most probably lose internet access, if only for a time.... Can't have that!... Need my pr0n fix, pr0n helps soothe the pain. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-06 16:53 |
| #2 G(r)om, do you speak french (don't think those guys speak any english worth mentioning)??? I sure would like to set an online Cage Death-Match between you and the joooos-obsessed commenters from some french blogs. You'll scream "degenerates europeans" at them, and they will scream "degenerates joooos" at you, you'll complain about how the USA force Israel into a self-defeating policy, and they will complain about how the joooos rule the world and are destroying Europe, etc, etc, ad nauseam. You're so made for each-others, it's scary. Sounds great. I can't wait for it myself. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-06 16:46 |
| #1 Netanyahu gave vent to Israel's disappointment Nope. Bibi just refused to meet with the dog turd. When the "vent to Israel's disappointment" will come, Swedes---and the rest of degenerats inhibiting Europe---will know the difference. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-09-06 05:41 |