All the Swedish parties are echoing the infantile babble about “helping all the weak”. So who is weak? One way to calculate it is to say that it is those with less money per capita than the palestinian arabs, drowned in donations. As they are the best beggars in the world and are using the antisemitism in the world, especially the Western world, efficiently. “The enemy of your enemy” ya know.  Here is the “poor list” from the CIA World Factbook, the poor end. I have added a column with the number of citizen. The income is in dollars per year per person. 

How many people did it add upp to? A quick calculation of those above 10 million gave approximately 1,7 billion, and add the others to get a round number of 2 billion poor pitiful people to take care of by the Swedes.

All Swedish parties except the rightist SD (Swede-Democrats)  shout expressions as “we must help all these poor people!” and have not defined “pitiful”, and they do not put any kind of limit of the import.  My limit in this table is as good as any.

I live in the southernmost County of Sweden, Scania (Skåne) having a surface of 11.000 square kms. 1.2 million people live here. All of Sweden has a surface of around 400.000 square kms.

If we listen to the worst parties like the “Greens” (Environment Party) and the Center Party, who want to take in “all”, and we place them in the “first asylum county”, Scania, (or did everyone automatically get an air ticket to Stockholm from someone?) Then it will be 182.000 persons per sq.km. Compare it to the most dense of the cities of the world, Manila with 43.000/km², Cairo down at 18.071. All of Gaza is at 4.500/km².

Take a butter knife, spread all of those illegal muslims over Sweden and you get 5000/km2, that is – all of Sweden becomes as dense as Gaza at least.

 That is what the government and all to the left dream – all except the SD.

Try to calculate how much every Swede has to give to every imported illiterate muslim to satisfy our political elite. Julia Caesar has as usual written a good article loaded with these kinds of facts – I have translated several of her articles to this site. Her latest you find on that link – in Swedish so use Google. A site with overview of her production is here.

“Stealing a State” – from ‘Tze’dek’ Magazine, Makor Rishon

While in Israel there are talks of resuming the negotiations, the Palestinian Authority is establishing facts on the ground. The goal, which has long since been stated, is to take over areas ‘C’  and create territorial continuities. The method: establishing and developing Bedouin settlements while providing financial and legal support to the residents, who are increasingly identifying with the idea of a Palestinian state. The State’s Prosecutor turns a blind eye, and the Civil Administration ignores the matter and in fact conducts a double-standard policy between Jews and Arabs. The Palestinians: “Jerusalem is the gateway to heaven, and the Valley is the gateway to Palestine”.

Written by Gil Bringer on March 14,2012

Translated as a public service by Women in Green

They will come from somewhere in the area with a vehicle and a water-tank trailer, slow down near the Rimonim checkpoint, turn onto a side track and park after a few meters, right next to the Mekorot pumping station. High up on the observation point, a soldier on duty will watch them fill the water-tank with a pipe that’s already waiting for them there. No one from the outpost will stop them. That’s the procedure and that’s the order. From here they will continue onwards with their vehicle. The will return to their small settlement, located beneath one of the road’s curves. While driving down Vered road, which runs between Rimonim and Jericho, they will wave hello to another family member in the opposite lane. He too will be traveling with an empty water-tank. He too is on the way to the pumping station. He too will return to the illegal settlement he lives in with a water-tank that was filled, courtesy of the Israeli government. Routine in the Kingdom of the Jordan Valley.

The Bedouin settlements that have been spreading in the area are desperate for water. Without it they can’t survive. Up until recently the tribes used to drill into the Mekorot pipes and steal water. Occasionally, after drilling they never bothered connecting a new pipe that would lead the water to the encampment. The result was the non-stop flow of water that was left to leak away. Israel, for it’s own reasons, chose not to fight the phenomenon, instead choosing to supply the illegal Bedouin settlement with the water it needs to develop. The pumping stations that are scattered across different areas in Judea and Samaria provide the Bedouins with all the water they need, all in a known and legal way. But this new way of obtaining water, albeit simpler, more organized, and allowing the Bedouins to expand their invasion of remote lands that have never seen a Mekorot pipe, requires the Bedouins use equipment that they do not traditionally possess: giant containers, huge water-tanks, and water-tank trailers. But there are those who are interested in the Bedouin expansion and the obtaining of these new areas. They understand the need for the water equipment and therefor supply them with everything they need in a wholesale fashion. Following the source of the water containers is the beginning of a journey between stations to uncover the method, the means, and the objective. Who stands behind the new Bedouin settlements in the Valley?

Station No. 1: The writing on the container.

A quick ride down the Valley roads with a quick peek at the many settlements along the sides of the road are enough to paint the entire picture. Hundreds of identical water containers have been scattered in the area recently. Same color, same size, same shape. It is clear that they all came from the same factory and it is evident that a single entity is behind their distribution. Dropping to the side of the road and taking a closer look enables one to clearly read the Arabic inscription imprinted on every single container: “The Bedouin Support Plan. Funding: The Palestinian Authority. Implementation: Department of Local Authorities”.

Next to the yellow containers that are used for water storage, many of the Bedouin settlements in the Valley have another kind of water tank scattered around: silver tanks on wheels. And the phenomenon repeats itself: the exact same water-tank trailer in every settlement that was examined. Each has the clear imprint of the manufacturer’s phone number – 04-2468473. When we call the number one of the employees answers, and upon request hands the phone to Mr. Rushdi Rafat who introduces himself as the owner of the “Haj Rafat Metalworking Shop”, located in Araba in the Galilee. I introduce myself as someone who is interested in buying a water-tank trailer and ask Rushdi for references for his recent jobs in the Valley area. He tells me that the tractor-pulled containers were produced by him on several occasions over the last few years and were supplied to the Jericho, Tekoa, Ramallah, Mishor Adumim and the Anatot quarry areas, as well as others. He has several models and colors. Some are galvanized and some aren’t. “It all depends on how much I’m being paid”, he explains. A small number of containers were purchased by the Red Cross but the majority were purchased by the Palestinian Authority. Rafat invites us to talk to them about his good work. The containers of the second kind were distributed by him in the Jericho and Mishor Adumim area, at the request of the PA, where the majority of the Bedouin settlements are concentrated.

The brotherhood that has formed between the Bedouins and the Palestinian Authority is very odd to those who hear about it. Many in the Bedouin leadership despise the PA and claim to have been neglected for years. A senior official in the Bedouin community who agrees to talk to us accuses the PA of corruption, in regards to the handling of money that is transferred to it from foreign parties who wish to invest in the welfare of the Bedouins. The southern brothers of the Bedouins from the Valley, who live in the Negev, have never even heard of PA support. You won’t find any kind of water containers there, yellow or silver. What leads the Palestinian Authority to establish a support plan for the Bedouins living in the Valley area?

Station No. 2: Operation ‘Passover’.

On the eve of last Passover, the Civil Administration personnel went on vacation, like most Israeli citizens. Bedouins of the Jahalin tribe, who settle in the Abu-Hindi valley below the Keidar community, were already waiting in advance for this opportune moment. Using a technique that was very reminiscent of the “Tower and Stockade” operations, the  Bedouins constructed a new settlement just a few meters from the eastern border of Keidar. The first houses were erected just across the fence. During the 7 days between the first and second holidays, Palestinian Authority trucks arrived from the South Hebron Hills area. The trucks unloaded the equipment, and suddenly 80 identical housing structures popped out of thin air, spread across an enormous area. 3 here, 7 there, 15 on that side and 10 in another corner. Later on about 20 more units were built and at the next phase the number of structures reached 120. The new city of “Abu-Hindi” was now fait accompli.

A senior official who participated in the latest patrol of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the area told Makor Rishon that the head of the Civil Administration’s Supervision Unit, Marco Ben-Shabat, has confirmed that the structures were brought to the area by Palestinian Authority personnel. One look at the structures that sprung up overnight beneath Keidar is enough to see that this was not a local initiative. Anyone who elected to build a house in Abu-Hindi during the week of Passover received a housing package which included a double sized caravan, with a bathroom unit attached to its side, complete with piping, and a large water tank next to them. Not exactly the usual standards of the traditional Bedouin settlements.

The Civil Administration’s personnel, who have been trying to reach an understanding with the Palestinian Authority and work with full cooperation, viewed this act as a resounding slap in the face and immediately issued a demolition order for the structures. The Bedouins were prepared with an application for a temporary injunction that would prevent the demolition. One can only assume that the party that supplied the water, the trucks, the structures and the equipment, also provided the legal support. What is the PA’s motive?

Station No. 3: Taking over the Valley.

In August 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced his plan to establish a state “from the bottom up”. Fayyad’s plan included several principles, such as the development of infrastructures, separation of powers, free economy, and more. The stated goal was to establish a Palestinian state de-facto, under the assumption that the peace talks were sputtering and heading nowhere.

At the same time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to be perceived as someone who is pushing for a peace initiative, without being perceived as someone who is willing to give away parts of Judea and Samaria. This catch led Netanyahu to promote the “Economic Peace” plan, which is based on the idea that improving the Palestinian Authority’s economy is an Israeli interest. The thriving economy of the Palestinians is a prerequisite that will bring both sides closer to the negotiations, claimed Netanyahu.

Initially it appeared that Netanyahu’s idea fits well with the Palestinian Fayyadism: focusing on building the economy and abandoning peace initiatives. Except that Netanyahu’s plan ends at the negotiations table while Fayyad’s plan advocates the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian state.

In 2010 Fayyad’s plan took a turn and the Palestinian side began new initiatives. The new Palestinian idea was to dissolve the traditional Oslo Accords division of the land into ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ Territories by creating territorial continuities of settlements and infrastructures.

‘A’ Territories are where the large Palestinian cities are located. The area is under PA security as well as civil control. In ‘B’ Territories, the PA administers civil affairs, while security affairs are Israeli responsibility. ‘C’ Territories are under Israeli and Civil Administration control. ‘C’ Territories present 60% of Judea and Samaria, and there are about 300,000 Jews living there. In addition, a few tens of thousands of Palestinians, comprising about 5% of the PA population, live there. ‘C’ Territories’ great significance lies not only in their size, but mostly because they create a buffer between Palestinian civilian population centers.

In the beginning of 2010, Fayyad began making statements that he does not know how to read the letter ‘C’ and that all the areas of the West Bank are state lands that the PA is building on. In February of that year the PA opened a branch of it’s Ministry of Agriculture in the village of Jiftlik, located in the northern Jordan Valley, a ‘C’ Territory where, according to the Oslo Accords, the PA is not allowed to operate. This act, which has similar strategic implications to the opening of the Orient-House in Jerusalem back in the day, was received with a resounding silence.

Naturally, the Ministry of Agriculture is the first, primary government body that would take interest in those 60% of Judea and Samaria. “All of our agricultural land is located there”, said Ismail Daik, the Palestinian Minister of Agriculture, in an interview with Ha’Aretz when the branch was opened. He referred to the administrations that preceded Fayyad’s era. “They believed that we could easily regain the land through negotiations. Reality proved otherwise, as Israel views ‘C’ Territories as Israeli land”, said Daik in that same interview.

Naturally, the emphasis shifted to the Jordan Valley, both because it comprises about ⅓ of the land in Judea and Samaria and because about 90% of it is defined as ‘C’ Territories. The signs hanging at the entrance to the Ministry of Agriculture’s building in Jiftlik note that “Jerusalem is the gateway to heaven and the Valley is the gateway to Palestine”. Another sign hanging nearby reads: “The Valley is the border between Palestine and its sister, Jordan”.

The new strategy of the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, which serves as a spearhead to the other government offices, is to support the agricultural families in area ‘C’  in various ways, especially the ones who live in the Jordan Valley. Seizing control of the land is best achieved when it is based on local agricultural settlements. The Bedouins therefore present an excellent answer to the PA’s needs. They are located in area ‘C’  in a way and manner that no other Palestinian population could fulfil in their place.

Over time, Bedouin society is undergoing a process of Islamization and Palestinianization, and the distance between the Palestinian and Bedouin groups grows smaller. As far as the PA is concerned, the Bedouin population creates the continuity it so desperately needs between Ramallah and Jericho, and sets facts on the ground on its behalf. The Bedouins, for their part, know how to repay the PA with increasing solidarity. Palestinian flags are seen flying in more and more Bedouin settlements that enact in practice Fayyad’s policy.

Station No. 4: The Fund’s representative.

The ineffectiveness of the Israeli authorities in face of the Palestinian move, which is no longer concealing itself and its purpose of snatching everything that’s left of the ‘C’ Territories, has become a fact. Even though this is a declared Palestinian strategy that contradicts the Israeli policy, law enforcement agencies shuffle along.

A clear example is the matter of the appeals regarding the Masua community. In 2002 Bedouins invaded the private lands of the Masua community, at the foot of Mount Sartaba. The invasion of the lands of this community, which was established as the 4th Nahal outpost in the Jordan Valley in the early 1970s and was defined as part of the “continuous defensive shield of Jewish communities”, constitutes as yet another crack in the shield of Israeli Sovereignty. The Bedouin families clung to the community’s greenhouses and began cultivating the land parallel to the line of Israeli greenhouses.

At every stage of the expansion of the Bedouin invasion of Masua, the Civil Administration issued a new demolition order for the new section of illegal construction that was added. And every time, the Bedouins applied for a temporary injunction that would prevent the demolition, using Adv. Tawfiq Jabbarin. Every time, they received the desired injunction.

Unlike the Bedouin tribe that invaded the lands of Masua, Jabbarin, a graduate of the New Israel Fund’s Legal Program, didn’t pop out of nowhere. Late last January, the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper published an interview with Marwan Tubasi, Governor of Tubas, where he mentioned that “the Palestinians will continue clinging to their land and will make sure that all Israeli plans of Judaization of the Valley will fail, as the various parties in the district have begun working in earnest to obtain injunctions preventing the demolition of structures operated by the district and the Ministry for the Wall and Settlements Affairs”. The work is being done, says Tubasi, “in cooperation with Adv. Tawfiq Jabbarin, who is tasked by the Palestinian Authority with the responsibility of monitoring the demolition of structures and representation of citizens in the Israeli courts”.

Later Tubasi told proudly of how the PA created a fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to compensate the Bedouins in case the structures are demolished. Jabbarin cannot be relied upon to deliver the goods every time, so it’s always good to have a little something on the side. The Palestinian coverage of the Bedouin settlements is perfect. It includes water equipment, structures, legal aid and financial compensation.

All four applications for injunctions that were filed by Jabbarin were granted by the Supreme Court. On the other hand, the one application filed by the Masua community to consolidate the cases, in order to discuss the whole issue all at once and get rid of the red tape, was denied. And so, the matter has been left stagnant and hanging for 10 years, while the settlement has been growing and developing in front of the astonished eyes of the residents of Masua, who watch the excruciatingly slow conduct of the State’s Prosecution in handling the invaders.

The unending smearing of the proceedings transmits the inevitable message to the Palestinian Authority: Israel has no real intention of fighting their invasion. Gone are the days when the Jewish communities in the Valley were viewed as a “Hebrew shield”. No wonder the PA recently posted, on Israeli state lands, within the property of Masua, a sign on behalf of the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture. The sign states in English and Arabic: “Successful rehabilitation”. Another venture for the glory of the newly emerging State of Palestine.

By the way, in order to obtain water for agriculture, the Bedouin invaders had no need to steal from pipes or use water-tank trailers. One can simply drill into the ground illegally and get the water on site. In the absence of enforcement, the Bedouins have created an agricultural enterprise in the settlement that was set up outside the Masua community, with the endorsement of the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, and they began drilling on the community’s lands.

Station No. 5: Lazy State’s Prosecution.

The Israeli Authorities’ blind eye in face of the orchestrated Palestinian move repeats itself again and again. Even when the Administration acts and issues demolition orders, something in the conduct of the State’s Prosecution is jammed. There is no trace of the diligence and efficiency it demonstrates against the Jewish communities in Migron and Amona. Even in the isolated cases that it fulfills its duty, the courts jam the process.

For example, in the city of Abu-Hindi which was constructed in 7 days across the fence of the Keidar community, the Civil Administration requested to destroy the structures and issued demolition orders. The Jahalin tribe, who, as mentioned, immediately filed an appeal for an injunction which was prepared along with the trucks and equipment a long time in advance, should have encountered in court a State’s Prosecution that was fighting for the rejection of the appeal and the execution of the demolition orders in the most urgent manner.

As far as the State’s Prosecution was concerned it was a simple, easy task. Although Adv. Lecker, who is representing the Bedouins, claimed that they have always been inhabiting the area and that the structures that were brought to the valley about a year ago simply improved the housing conditions that already existed there, it is enough to look at the aerial photographs to prove that this claim is fundamentally baseless. Comparing 2 aerial photos of the specific piece of land in Abu-Hindi Valley clearly proves: new structures were brought to the location in 2011.

But the Jahalin had an extremely pleasant surprise waiting for them. Throughout the past year the State’s Prosecution has requested again and again to postpone submitting its response to the issue. The State’s Prosecution filed no less than 5 requests to postpone their response to the appeal for an injunction.

Justice Danziger, who was assigned the case, commented that “we can assume the structure will not be demolished before the injunction hearing”. The Administration interpreted the judge’s assumption as a binding assertion and therefore does not dare to execute the demolition orders in the new city, even though an injunction has not actually been issued. Meanwhile, the State’s Prosecution has continued stalling, until recently the court threatened to not allow it to argue against issuing a temporary injunction that would prevent the demolition of the structures, due to “inaction in the case”. Up until this moment, the State’s Prosecution has not yet submitted even its initial response to the issue.

The 5 times that the State’s Prosecution has asked for an extension, without taking any action on the matter, is no outstanding record in regards to its conduct with the Bedouins in the area. For example, in another case (HCJ 1828/06) the Administration  requested to demolish illegal sheds that the Jahalin tribe had constructed. No less than 17 rulings were given during this case, all of them requests by the State’s Prosecution for extensions, in 13 of which the court declared that the State’s Prosecution has been conducting itself idly. As of today, the State’s Prosecution has yet to submit the State’s position on the heart of the matter.

Station No. 6: Private initiative.

The only ray of light in whole matter is the conduct of the Regavim movement, who time and time again have stepped into the State’s shoes in places where it should have managed things. Regavim now requests to join the Abu-Hindi case as an amicus curiae.

“This case is one of many examples of the calculated, systematic methodology of the Palestinian conduct in implementing the Fayyad plan, establishing the infrastructure for a Palestinian state unilaterally and bypassing the need for negotiations with Israel”, claims Bezalel Smotritz, CEO of Regavim. “The impressive logistical preparations, the precise timing for the intermediate days of Passover during which the Supervision Unit does not operate, the perfect execution of the ‘operation’ for the lightning-quick establishment of dozens of structures and finally the appeal to the Supreme Court immediately after the holiday; all these indicate that we are facing a well oiled, well funded machine, which operates proficiently to establish facts on the ground and to face Israel with faits accomplis that will greatly limit its political maneuverability.

“The majority of Israeli authorities still respond to this dangerous activity amateurishly, if not on criminal negligence. The Israeli inaction in face of the hyperactive Palestinian activism turns the Israeli political debate regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state into a farce. The Palestinian state is being established before our eyes and the way back is becoming increasingly difficult and complicated with every passing day.

“In the midst of all this, the Supreme Court is serving, knowingly or not, as a tool for the fulfilment of the political aspirations of the Palestinians. Sponsored by the injunction-trigger-happy system, and sponsored by the State’s Prosecution shirking its obligation to protect the demolition orders and respond to appeals immediately, political facts are being set in the field and no one so much as says a word”.

The Ministry of Justice’s response to our questions on the matter was: “The State’s Prosecution has not yet received the IDF’s response to the appeal. We suggest contacting the IDF Spokesperson”.

Station No. 7: Foreign involvement in the ‘C’ Territories.

About 2 years ago the Palestinian Authority began criticizing the countries that contribute enormous sums of money to the PA. The main accusation made by the PA against the contributing countries was that the policy of these countries and of the international development agencies is to direct most of their contributions towards projects in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Territories, and not to ‘C’ Territories. This was being done out of a certain respect of the Israeli sovereignty over the ‘C’ Territories as was agreed upon in the Oslo Accords.

In another interview given by Daik to Ha’Aretz he said that in a meeting with international development agencies that engage in agricultural aid, they were told that the work with them will not continue if they refuse to participate in projects in the ‘C’ Territories. This global trend of evading providing aid in this “forbidden” area has been broken, according to him.

And the trend has indeed broken, so much so that it is a real revolution. According to a document that was prepared by the Research Department of the Yesha Council, the PA currently manages to reroute most of the donations it receives these days to ‘C’ Territories, despite the fact that the majority of its population is living in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Territories. Here too the Palestinian Authority views the Bedouins and their form of settling the region as the key to seizing as much land as possible.

Station No. 8: An outpost-settlement as a school.

In 2009 the residents of Kfar Adumim appealed against the construction of the regional Italian school which was being built right below their community and was intended for the children of the Bedouin tribes that had settled in various outpost-settlements in the area. The school, which is located directly above Highway 1, does not serve only the locals: the Palestinian Authority subsidizes rides for students from more distant locations. It seems that here too the PA is trying to set facts on the ground via the Bedouin settlements and is willing to spend money in order to do so. The school which was built there is not a means, it is an end in itself.

The demolition order that was issued against the place years ago was never executed, despite the proximity of the school to the main thoroughfare and it being located within firing zones, facts that should have bumped it to the top of the demolitions priority list. But these, of course, are the very same facts behind the PA’s desire to leave the school standing.

In 2010 the court accepted the position of the Civil Administration which stated that the school should not be destroyed before the end of the school year. This is despite the fact that there is a school nearby in Abu-Dis, from which students are transported daily to the Italian school in Khan al-Ahmar, which can absorb the entire student body. The court decided that the demolition of the school should be postponed until the end of June.

June ended and July came. August & September also went flying by. Time and time again the State’s Prosecution asked for additional time to obtain more permits for the demolition of the school, permits that apparently could not be obtained during the months of inaction while waiting for the school year to end.

In October the State asked again for an additional 30 days, and in the background the clamor of students returning for a new school year could be heard in the school’s halls. In November, the Coordination of Operations in the Territories Command announced that the process of approving the demolition had greatly advanced and had in fact passed all the stages except receiving the signature of the Defense Minister. The State’s Prosecution informed the court that the Minister was expected to sign the demolition order by the end of 2011.

In February 2012 the State’s Prosecution explained that due to a “technical error” the document was never given to the Defense Minister to sign. The State’s Prosecution requested an additional 45 days. At the same time as the State’s Prosecution was requesting an additional postponement to correct the “technical error”, Ha’Aretz newspaper published that General Dangot, who was responsible for the coordination of operations in the Territories, had visited the Khan al-Ahmar settlement and informed the residents that he has no intention of demolishing the school. This information was consistent with messages that had been passed from Administration personnel to the residents of Kfar Adumim, who spoke with Makor Rishon, according to which the Administration has no interest in demolishing the illegal school structure.

In a conversation with the Coordination of Operations in the Territories Spokesperson, we attempted to understand how the State’s Prosecution claim, saying that it was only a “technical error” that had delayed the Defense Minister’s signing of the demolition order, was consistent with   Dangot’s own remarks, who according to publications had no interest in demolishing the structure.

In a verbal discussion the Spokesperson claimed that the details published in Ha’Aretz regarding Dangot were inaccurate. We inquired as to what Dangot had, in that case, said to the residents of Khan al-Ahmar, and at this point the Spokesperson asked us to send him a proper email on the matter. The email was sent to the correct address but no answer was received. We assumed that it must be a “technical error”, a problem that seems to exist all around the Khan al-Ahmar issue. At the request of the Spokesperson the email was re-sent and all traces have since been lost. Of both the email and the Spokesperson. We can only assume that another “technical error” has plagued the matter.

In the meantime, the Palestinian Authority has no technical error problems. Fayyad decided, of course, to completely endorse the Bedouin school, and in an Appreciation Ceremony that was held last May, Fayyad arrived at the outpost-settlement to congratulate his people.

“You Bedouins are the Keepers of the Land”, Fayyad told the residents. “Your insistence on teaching your children in this humble school, which was built by an Italian organization, is a sign of hope for us all. My visit to this village is a strong message for the freedom of my people, and for the establishment of a Palestinian state where the rights of our people will be preserved. On behalf of the Palestinian Authority, which is trying to soon become the Palestinian State, we call out to the international authorities and organizations to protect the rights of the Palestinians”.

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BEWARE OF THE ORBAUM BOYCOTT

Reprinted with permission from Jerusalem Post.

Call me eccentric, but I like to feel good about where my money goes. Some time ago, I began to notice our kitchen oven was not working so well.

I put in it a frozen chicken, turned a couple of dials, and in a couple of hours it became apparent that the best that I can hope for was a thawed chicken in maybe four days.

It was the excuse that I needed to go buy a new one. I told the store owner what I wanted, and he led me to a beautiful, gleaming work of art, assuring me it was utterly perfect for me.

And what’s more, it happened to be on sale. The best for the least, what more can I ask for? I was bedazzled. Then I remembered, “Where’s it made?” I asked. Beaming he answered: “Germany,” “Show me something else,” I said. His eyes popped. “But sir they make the best ovens in the world.” Which is precisely why I won’t buy it, I said through clenched teeth.

He did not understand.

Controlling my anger, I asked him if the words “Germany” and “ovens” didn’t have any special, odious significance.

“Oh, that.”

Yes, that.

Call me eccentric, but I like to feel good about where my money goes. I call it conscientious consumerism. It’s my own way of saying there’s a price to pay: kill six million of my people, and you’ve lost my business. Yeah, I take such things personally.

I’ve been putting my money where my principles are since I was young. It started with German products: it is now rather out of control.

I can’t make a simple choice without those mental voices of Good and Evil getting involved.

“Wooh, there: you really gonna watch that movie starring that Jew-baiting witch Vanessa Redgrave?”

“So what, she’s gonna get paid extra if he watches it on TV? Let him watch; it doesn’t mean he supports her politics.”

Was I the only Israeli supporting ITV’s noble boycott of Roald Dahl a few years ago?

When the Olympics come around, or the World Cup, I agonize. Whom should I root for, Brazil, which gave sanctuary to Nazis, or Greece, which kowtows to Arab terrorists. France, with its awful record of political prostitution, or England with its antipathy to Zionism? I know, I know – to most people its just a soccer game, or track meet. But to me it’s the Jewish Question.

“You won’t buy German,” the voice drones at me, “but you’ll buy olive oil made in Spain? Have you forgotten?”

“That was 505 years ago,” its alter ego responds.

“Yeah well maybe the farmer who grew the olives to make that oil is a direct descendent of an Inquisitor.”

“And maybe he’s a Jew.”

It should have been easy taking a stand against one country, if not for that voice.

“You desire war on Germany, but not Poland?”

“OK then Germany and Poland.”

“Italy was on their side. And the Austrians, feh. What about the Russians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians-”

“OK, OK, so all of Europe.”

“And Canada was so nice to us during the war? What, there’s no anti-Semitism in America?”

“But…”

“…the non-aligned countries, the former Communist Bloc, the Moslem world…”

I CANNOT with a clear conscious patronize anyone anymore. Well, not quite: after I eliminate everyone who’s ever given us a rough time (all of Christendom, for instance), there’s not much left but certain undiscovered jungle tribesmen who’ve never heard of the Jews. Though I can never be certain: for all I know their ancestors may have been cannibals who once ate one.

I can’t even buy a nice Jaffa orange without wondering: was the fertilizer imported? Here’s a perfect example: my life insurance policy. I chose a nice Israeli company-which was recently bought out by Generali, which, it was revealed recently, refused to honor insurance policies on Holocaust victims unless the Nazis were thoughtful enough to issue a death certificate.

I can’t buy Swiss anymore. Swiss-made used to be an wonderful alternative to German made, but now? G-d forbid I should enrich those thieving bastards. (That’s why I refuse to get one of those secret Swiss bank accounts-because they tend to be kept secret from the account holders.)

I could survive nicely if I bought nothing but Japanese. To them we’re just White people. They’re are not of a religion we’ve ever been at odds with. They never once had an anti-Semitic pogrom. But I can’t buy Japanese because they boycotted us. Which is why I boycott Japan.

And Pepsi, you’ll never see me drinking a Pepsi. It was convenient and profitable for Pepsi to stick it to us, while Coke refused to bend to extortion. Now that it’s convenient and profitable for Pepsi to take our money without weighing morality, should I abandon the cola that remained loyal to me? Uh-uh: Coke, for me, is it.

(Here’s my own version of the Pepsi Challenge: I’d like to dare a Pepsi PR person to drop by my office with a case of the sniff, to see what I do with it. I will then invite the world media to a press conference, to be held in The Jerusalem Post toilets, to demonstrate the disdain.)

You Must, understand, I’m not one of those Jews who sees an anti-Semite under every rock. I would guess that 2 percent of them hate us, 2 percent love us and 96 percent of them have no opinion. (The poll has 100 percent margin of error.) It’s just that once this ethical snowball started rolling it had a snowball’s hope in hell of stopping.

I’ve tried to stop this silliness, to buy without conscience, to put my considerations first, even if it meant patronizing a company that got rich in Jewish slave labor. But I found that taking a Bayer’s aspirin made me feel sick.

Funny thing is, I have no problem buying Arab products. Maybe because they have justifiable reasons for hating us, I don’t know. The difference is, I suppose, the measure of cynicism in the antipathy, Nah. That sounds like I know what I’m talking about; what it amounts to is a gut feeling. I’d sooner buy a Palestinian beer than a German one… supporting a current enemy rather than a reformed former one.

“Flawed logic,” says one of the voices.

I shrug.

Don’t think me completely wacko. I buy American. Abiding by the Apathetic ninety-six Percent Theory, I can usually ignore the Voices’ debate and buy French, British, yes even Swiss. (But not Pepsi.) I’ve even compromised my credo to the extent that I own a fortune in Disney videos, not withstanding Walt’s (allegedly) legendary anti-Semitism. Like, what am I gonna tell my kids-that I won’t buy them Pocahontas because some long dead guy wrinkled his nose at Jews 50 years ago?

But sometimes that old persecution complex kicks in, and I wonder just who the hell is profiting from this here Jew. On days like that, I check my PBL (personal boycott list), and find that I can, with clear conscience, buy nothing imported but smoked fish and jam, because I can only patronize Denmark and Bulgaria.

Oh, yes. And anything we import from Micronesia.

“BUT SERIOUSLY”: BS and the Prime Minister (Ehud Barak)

By Sam Orbaum (January 15)

“But Seriously” interviews the prime minister, but seriously.

Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for this exclusive interview. To begin with, why have you chosen davka this column to speak to?

The reason is, I have a lot to account for, and that takes time, and my time as prime minister is very limited, so I can’t just sit around with journalists answering for myself. So if I have little chance to explain, I have to tell the truth once and for all, and this is the once, and it has to be for all. This is what my media advisers decided.

You see, we figured out that the country is split half and half, and half of a half is voting for me, which includes half the people who voted for me last time. That includes the Jews and Arabs, Ethiopians and Russians, religious and secular, male and female, even the decideds and undecideds, everybody – except, we discovered, the anglo-saxim, which is split 50.00001 to 49.99999. We isolated the difference to two immigrants from Florida, a guy named Roger and his wife Alice, and they have nothing in common but one thing: they both read this column. Why, I don’t know. These two people are the swing voters. And not for the first time. We learned a lesson from the American elections.

How so?

I’m taking them out to dinner tomorrow.

Wow! Does Arik know about this?

He’s having them over for bourekas tonight.

Mr. Prime Minister, there is unanimous consensus that you are the worst Israeli leader ever; in fact, many people wonder if perhaps you are the best Palestinian leader ever. You’re so unpopular, even Peres could win an election against you. You have been a stunning disaster. Is this fair?

What can you expect from an Israeli leader? Only that he should do his best. I have done my best, and you see the results. But next time, I will do much better.

Next time?! You don’t have a snowball’s hope in hell of winning the elections. Where do you get your delusionary optimism?

My mother’s side. When the kids on the street used to taunt me and say I look like a turtle, my mother would shout at them: “Someday little Ehud will be prime minister and then you’ll all be sorry.” She knew, even back then.

In the 18 months you led this country down the toilet, would you say you made any blunders?

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. My only regret is, I should have proclaimed the Temple Mount sovereign Palestinian territory when Arik was on it. The foolish man wasn’t even carrying his passport.

You promised, swore, vowed, guaranteed and pledged that Jerusalem will never be divided, which is why people voted for you. Nu?

I repeat, Jerusalem will not be divided. Subtracted, yes. But let’s be fair: they were here first. Jesus was Palestinian, and Adam and Eve – you wrote that yourself, in this very column.

It’s a humor column, sir. It was a joke.

Oh.

If reelected, will you keep your promises this time?

I will not make promises I can’t keep, I promise. This is a good example of how the media twists the facts. I said a lot of things that the people of Israel needed to hear to give me their votes. That’s not “making promises,” it’s “politics.” What, was everyone born yesterday?

Throughout this recent intifada, you not only promised, swore, vowed, guaranteed and pledged assurances to Israelis every time you opened your mouth – and then never followed through – but you also warned, cautioned and threatened the Palestinians just as often, and then never followed through. I remind you of the infamous schoolyard-mentality “48-hour warning or else” that had Hizbullah quaking – not in fear, but in laughter.

More proof that the media is out to get me. Sure, they made a big thing out of that, but when Arik visited the Temple Mount, I warned him to leave within 48 hours or else, and he did, yet no one reported that. You can be sure, mark my words, next time I give a “48-hour warning or else,” it will be exactly 48 hours and then zbeng!, the settlers who don’t leave will be in a foreign country.

Where would the settlers go?

They can go settle the Negev.

By granting the Palestinian refugees the right of return, a million Israelis will be kicked out of their homes, thus creating a Jewish refugee problem. The country will be half the size with twice the people.

No, no, no, you don’t understand. The right of return is fair and equal. The Palestinians will be allowed to return to Israel, and the Israelis will have the right to return to Iran, Iraq, Russia, Poland. I think I can get the Palestinians to agree to this.

Back to the intifada: You have been accused of everything from indecision to cowardice.

Cowardice? Says who?!

Remember, when you went to Gilo to show solidarity, you stayed on the safe side of the neighborhood. You posed for a few pictures then got the hell out; you didn’t go to the other side because, you explained, your security people felt it was “dangerous” there.

If Gilo ever comes under fire again, I vow, we will not sit idly by for even one second. We will shoot at Gilo too, with a hundred times the firepower, so that no one can question the readiness of the IDF to respond, and respond fiercely. And this time, you have my word, the United Nations will not condemn us.

You mean, attack Jews?!

CNN has promised sympathetic coverage. You cannot underestimate the importance of this.

Do you have any other surprises in store?

Nope. There is nothing more Arafat could ask for.

There was a time when Israelis thought the ultimate sacrifice for peace was giving up Sinai. That was traumatic enough, yet now you’re practically apologizing for wanting to keep the Western Wall.

I guarantee that we will never, ever give the Wall to the Palestinians as long as they don’t ask for it.

It seems that the nature of the peace process has changed under your tenure – that you are in reality negotiating terms of surrender. The Palestinians certainly think so: they’re now calling you a war criminal, and saying you and the entire government should stand trial.

After all I’ve done for them.

Experts say you may have set a historical precedent, that this is the first time a country declined to defend itself against an inferior attacking enemy.

Not true. Israel has done it before. And that is the basis for my strategy: we responded to the stone-throwers exactly the same way we responded to Saddam’s Scuds, by showing we are fearless inside our sealed rooms.

You control the most vaunted army in the world, yet a ragged rabble of rock-throwers could lay siege to vital bridges and roads and towns for months; why didn’t you use the IDF to defend the country? After all, it is the Israel Defense Forces.

Never thought of it. I’m a general. I’m trained in the use of military might for offensive options: to wage full-scale warfare, or retaliate, or attack.

I see. Well, thank you, Mr. Barak.

Thank you, Mr. Orbach.

Orbaum.

Or bomb? Yes, that was another option. Next time, I promise…

Right On Time, A Day Late
By Sam Orbaum

(April 16,2000) Next week, when Pessah is over that’s when I buy matza.

I wasn’t allowed to go trick-or-treating on Hallowe’en when I was a kid, because I was a Jewish kid. What made it worse is that my parents bought bags of goodies, and I had to stand at the door and hand them out to the neighborhood masqueraders – including all the other Jewish kids. So I resented Hallowe’en.

I also resented Easter, because while “they” were scraping their teeth on chocolate eggs, “we” had matza. I was led to believe it made us special.

I thought it stunk.

Ah, but Christmas! You’d think I hated Christmas, but no: from the earliest signs of its approach I plotzed with excited anticipation of the toys I would get. That’s because Christmas heralded Hanukka, which begat Hanukka gelt, with which, according to ancient family tradition, the Orbaum kids bought toys.

But the catch was, we had to wait. While the goyim were going crazy buying their toys when prices were highest, the Orbaum
kids sat on their nickels and waited. And we knew exactly for how long: when they screamed at us from the TV, “only 88 shopping days left!” we knew that for us it meant “only 89 days left to shopping!”

Because the day after Christmas, there we were, the only kids in town running into toy stores to buy. Prices swooned, and we swooped, and we made off like bandits.

I don’t know if that proves we’re smarter, but it occurred to me some years ago that it proves we in Israel are dumber. Why, I wondered, can’t we apply the same principle here?

So I did.

You ever go into a makolet the day after Pessah? The owner is depressed.

He’s glaring at a tremendous stock of matza he didn’t manage to sell, and never in a million years will. The last thing he expects is…

“Good morning,” I say. “How much for a large box of matza?”

You’ve never seen a happier makolet owner, but being Israeli, he can’t leave good enough alone. “Whatarya, crazy?! Now you
want matza?”

And I get it for half price.

I’m amazed no one thought of it before. We know very well the cycle of holidays, and the corresponding rises and drops in
prices. But we wait all year until the price is highest, and then we buy, instead of waiting one more day when they’re
willing to give it away.

Imagine how much I save by buying Hanukka candles the day after. Imagine how much time I save when, a year later, I simply retrieve the year-old box of wax sticks from the cupboard while everyone else is queuing up 15 deep at the makolet for the very same thing.

I buy cheese for Shavuot the day before Independence Day, and meat for Independence Day the day before Shavuot.

“Whatarya, crazy?” the grocer says. I think it bothers him that I don’t obey the rules of nature, as if suddenly one morning the sun rose in the south.

I tried to explain the wisdom of it all. “But don’t you see? While everybody’s climbing all over each other in your dairy department, I’m all alone here in your cow parts, selecting the very best for the very least.

And when Yom Ha’atzmaut comes, they’ll all be here, and I’ll be there, all alone.”

“He’s crazy,” the grocer mumbles to himself reassuringly.

But he’s looking to make a profit, so he knows if he’s going to keep my patronage, he’s going to have to put in an emergency order for all the wrong things a day late. Now his suppliers think he’s crazy.

You think I go to shul on Yom Kippur? Of course not! On Lag Ba’omer I go to shul: you can get a seat for free and, well, you can get a seat; there’s no one else there. It’s the best time to go.

Conversely, the best time to find kindling for a bonfire is on Yom Kippur.

Sometimes, the way to beat the crowds and save grushim is to
get in there before the event, rather than after. For instance,
I have found the most opportune time to go to the bank is just
before a devaluation.

Nobody’s expecting it, so everybody’s elsewhere. It’s so
logical.

I’ll bet you buy an umbrella after you’ve already been soaked
by the first rain. Don’t you think it’s a lot smarter to buy
it in June, when everyone’s buying sunglasses? You know
perfectly well that the rain will start precisely at rainy
season, and it’s useless to hope that it won’t.

(Which brings up another silliness: when do we say the Prayer
For Rain? Exactly at that time of year when the skies are
bursting with clouds. And then we say “y’see!” when our
prayers are answered. I say, let’s test the power of prayer
by asking for rain during the annual drought.)

Pessah cleaning is best done just before Succot, when cleaning
ladies are begging for work. The drawback is that you have to
keep the house kosher-for-Passover for half a year, but the
advantage is that while every other Jew is cleaning, you’re
the only one out there merrily collecting fronds for the
succa, which you can put up at your leisure during Purim,
leaving the search for Purim costumes to Tisha b’Av.

That’s also how I vote. Isn’t it silly to decide just before
an election, when they’re all on their best behavior?
Not me. The day after the elections, that’s when I start
listening to the promises they make, and then I make my
decision a good four years before the next elections.

Likewise, I make my own supplications to God the day after
Yom Kippur, when I’m the only one beseeching, so I know
He can hear me.

The best time for a New Year’s Eve party is erev Rosh Hashana,
when the Rabbinate is least expecting it.

I’LL TELL you when I first got this idea. It was the war.

(This is an absolutely true story:) It happened a couple of
days after everyone had thrown away all the plastic sheeting
from their sealed rooms. A friend of mine happened to have
a little car trouble: his window wouldn’t close. Seeking a
temporary solution until he could get it properly repaired,
he popped into the hardware store and bought – you guessed it -
plastic sheeting. He had to be the only customer for that
particular product on that day in the entire country.

Shortly thereafter, he was stopped at a traffic light, and
some truck driver, seeing his “sealed car,” hollered at him.
“Yalla, uncle! Haven’t you heard? The war’s over!”

That truck driver, I guarantee you, does not buy cottage
cheese the day before Independence Day.

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[The translator's comments in brackets.]

Finally the Prime Minister stood at the pulpit. He spoke and said:

Sweden will be a country characterized by openness. Something of the most genuinely Swedish we have is our tradition of openness to the world. In Sweden, generations of people who fled oppression and poverty had a chance to start a new life. They have enriched our country, made us wiser and given us a more developed society. They contribute to our prosperity. Without transparency, Sweden had been a poorer country.

The words were spoken by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (m [moderates]). He has obviously not written them myself. It is his speechwriter who have filed the statement of government as Reinfeldt read it out when the parliament opened. The ‘Statement of Government’ represents young children’s wish list to Santa Claus, but should also set the tone for how the present Government will do its work during the term of office, ie until the election 2014. You have to put in as many fluffy and promising words as possible. Words like “responsibility”, “transparency”, “security” and “welfare” that sound good but not really commit to anything. Bread and circuses to the people. The word “liability” occurs twelve times in the Statement of Government.

I have read the Statement of Government and the Government’s budget for 2011 in the chapters of “Migration” and “Integration and Gender Equality“.

To you, dear readers, I’ll translate the fluffy words to realpolitik and tell you what to expect during the next four years. The starting point is to put words in the immigration policies pursued by different governments in recent decades and especially of the bourgeois alliance government for the past four years.

The human smugglers are in control

The number of foreigners granted permanent residence, PUT, in Sweden since 2006 has been at record highs of around 100 000 per year. Last year 102 449 new immigrants arrived with 168 different nationalities.

If the numbers for the first three quarters are maintained, this year we can expect a new immigration record of 106 000 people. Of those, only 2% of refugees will be according to the Geneva Convention and a similar number of quota refugees.

The “transparency” the Prime Minister talks about really means that Sweden does not have any control over what kind of people are allowed into the country. Who and how many they are is controlled exclusively by the criminal trafficking gangs who earn billions on directing human beings to the humane and open Sweden. This is accepted by both government and parliament. They not only agree. They are actively promoting human smuggling by carrying the world’s most irresponsible immigration policy. That’s how youshould  understand their talk of “transparency”.

The government wants the borders to remain wide open for all sorts of unidentified criminals, terrorists, rapists, forced marriage child brides, robbers, thieves, killers, pimps, arsonists, islamists, human trafficking victims, drug offenders, women who preferred to veil themselves in full tent instead of work and support  themselves, and various other unspecified adventurers without grounds for asylum. This is a truly Swedish tradition. Immigration Service simply does not know what you let into the country, and it knows no one else does either. Only 4% have valid credentials. 96% do not want to show who they are or even what country they come from. It has so far resulted that Sweden is home to more than 1 500 war criminals and an additional unknown number of terrorists and other hardened criminals. One of the war criminals, the first and so far the only one that has been arrested in Sweden is 43-year-old Ahmet Makitan. He is now on trial, on reasonable suspicion of serious crimes under international law, murder, kidnapping and torture. He came to Sweden from Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001 and became a Swedish citizen 2006. Such effects of transparency the Prime Minister does not mention.

Men refusing to shake hands with female decision-makers

The Prime Minister mentions nothing about how the everyday work may seem to women employees at the Board. One of the policy makers to realize “the Swedish tradition of openness” tells on Merit Wager’s blog about his meetings with Muslim women asylum seekers:

I meet only too often in my work as a decision maker at the Migration Board asylum seeker men who refuse to shake hands with me because I am a woman. They also often switch the administrator for the same reason. How will these men at all be able to work in Sweden, if they get the PUT? In Sweden, they will be forced to shake hands with women, and even if they open their own, such as a kiosk, they will be forced to accept money from women customers, if they do not introduce a system where money is left in a jar and the product is thrown to the customer over the disk.

Why are these people attracted to Sweden?

Although they would have had problems in their own country there is of course a number of countries in the Arab world where they can find themselves and where they can live the way they are accustomed to living.

What is the cost of immigration?

Fredrik Reinfeldt talks about “generations of people who fled oppression and poverty and had a chance to start a new life”, he should instead – if he wanted to describe reality – say: “In Sweden we have in the past 30 years received 1.3  million foreigners of whom the overwhelming majority did not fly from oppression. Only about 5% are refugees. Poverty is, according to the Aliens Act no grounds for asylum. It would then mean safe passage to Sweden for all residents of poor countries on earth, and it is an impossibility. “

When the Prime Minister says “They contribute to our prosperity” it is a highly relative statement.

Employment immigration to Sweden in the 1950s and 60s contributed greatly to building a Swedish prosperity. But it was only a brief parenthesis in the history of migration. Since the 1980s, immigration goes every year with increasing multi-billions in losses. How big the losses are, no government has hitherto wanted to present to the voters. We’ll just pay and look happy. A very large and growing proportion of immigrants do not contribute at all but rather consume a  growing share of what others are working together. Unemployment among immigrants was in 2007 on average 2.5 times higher than among Swedes, and has increased substantially over the past term. Of those who have come from Iraq, 73% of women and 60% of men are still unemployed after ten years in Sweden. Only 35% of men and 20% of women from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia have any work at all, which means they work at least one hour a week.

The cries of help because of ruptured social budgets are sounding more and more from the municipalities. It is local politicians who effectively are forced to take care of what their party colleagues on the national level impose on them. The contribution of expanding immigration of illiterate and to-be-supported for life will in the not too distant future, result in that the Mother Svea’s coffers are empty inexorably and loan possibilities have been exhausted. “Welfare” will be a k-marked word in the antiquarian section of the Swedish Academy’s dictionary. Something that we who have experienced welfare can talk about at a memory evening in geriatric care – if we receive any.

At least 400 000 new immigrants by 2014

From the Statement of Government Policy and Budget, I made a little compilation of what we can expect over the next four years with the Alliance. The forecast is based on the policies that Government has pursued since 2006. The call for cooperation now under way between the Conservatives and the Greens will lead to an even more “generous” policy and further record levels in the Swedish admission of new immigrants. The Green Party is known for working with the Left and both like to have a largely unregulated immigration. Mikaela Valtersson (mp [miljöpartiet, the Greens] ) is now investigating on behalf of the Government new ways for migrants wishing to come to Sweden. The party was called by the writer and blogger in Jan Milld “The Immigration Party The Good “.

This is what we will see over the next four years – feel free to save the Chronicle and do a reality check in 2014.

• More than 400 000 new immigrants will be granted the PUT. Probably more, depending on how much influence the Green Party may have. This is equivalent to five cities of the size of Södertälje, populated only by new immigrants. Of the new immigrants, around 160 000 from Muslim countries, who are, according to the Quran prohibited to be integrated among the “infidel” Swedes.

From the Budget proposition:

Sweden continues to be one of the countries in Europe which gives most people protection from

Violence and persecution. In 2009, Sweden was one of the countries in Europe to which most asylum seekers came and today there is no indication that the number of asylum seekers to Sweden will be reduced to any significant extent in the coming years.

• Increased unemployment. Unemployment is currently 8.4%. Youth unemployment is 25%. A migration of the order of half a million people in four years, most of whom have little or no education at all, is inevitably an unemployment and benefit immigration.
• Thus the so-called exclusion [the new-Swedish word 'utanförskap' is defined in many words in the Swedish Wikipedia, but no English equivalent exists. It means a social alienation from others, outside society] will glow, which the Conservatives say they want to fight, to new record levels.

More people must work harder to support more people

• Increased social costs. From 2008 to 2009, welfare payments by as much as 17%. 422 300 persons were in households that received financial assistance at some point last year. It is the highest number of welfare recipients since 2002. From the cost of just over 11 billion SEK, 6.75 billion was for foreign-born, including introductory benefits to refugees. Swedish-born citizens cost 4.31 billion SEK. This means that the Swedes had 39%, while foreign-born, including refugees (who constitute 14% of the population) received 61% of financial assistance.
• The idea of “work first”, as the Conservatives drive hard, will be strengthened even more. Healthy and sick, the lame and the broken shall be available for work whether there is work or not. The right (and obligation soon?) to work is extended to 69 years of age. In order to supply an increasing proportion of immigrants who will never enter the labor market, it is necessary that all the others work even more and longer.
• Illegal immigrants will get free healthcare and schooling, according to the new Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag (fp [folkpartiet]) in the Radio Sweden program Echo, Saturday interview.

It is a requirement that for long has been pushed hard by especially the Green Party and Left Party, but the Conservatives have said no to. Now in the horse-trading between the moderates  with the Immigration Party The Good they have to give the rights to those who do not even have the right to reside in Sweden. A general amnesty for all who are staying illegally in Sweden is one of the Green Party’s demands.

Cleaners, kitchen assistants and newspaper sellers

• Many more young men, so-called “unaccompanied refugee children” arrive in Sweden as an anchor for large families and travelling ambassadors for Islam. This is fully in line with the desire of the government. Some blocks are not. The cost increases in 2011 is 500 million SEK. More and more privately owned enterprises are making multi-million SEK profits at the “kids” that can cost 3015 SEK per day, ie more than 1.1 million per year and “children” only in housing costs. There is no ceiling for the cost of health care providers can charge the taxpayers, says Today’s Society.
• The workers that were introduced in 2008 will increase significantly, despite the current unemployment. This year, 13 550 labor migrants come to Sweden.

(Graphic: Affe)

Most of these lack training and will to do unskilled low paid jobs. In four years it will be 54 204 immigrant workers. We will be getting an injection of about 1800 cleaners, some 2000 kitchen and catering assistants, 4080 housekeeping and restaurant services workers, 384 warehouse and transport assistants and over 400 newspaper distributors and caretakers.

Why import tens of thousands of unskilled people from other countries when we have almost half a million unemployed? One thing is certain: this is not primarily of concern for labor migrants. One answer, according to the principle “follow the money”, is that the bourgeois governments always stands near the business, and particularly the informal underground economy will have an inexhaustible need for cheap unskilled labor outside of any agreement. This applies particularly to the hotel and catering, cleaning and sanitation sectors and warehouses and transportation. For employers, it is ideal with people who are dependent, and require no rights. Refugees are ideal for these purposes and can be ruthlessly exploited. About this the unions are completely silent.

Thrown away integration billions and increased crime

• Even more billions will be poured in integration. It is a policy that consumes huge amounts of money but is a gigantic failure. The integration efforts are doomed to fail as long as the other end continues with unlimited admission of new immigrants. If an analogy is allowed: you have a water leak that damages the house, close first the main valve before taking other measures. It will also never be called ‘hostile to water’.
• The crime rate will continue to grow and become increasingly violent. Rape will increase even more. Since 1975, the reported rapes increased by 673%. Violent crime has risen steadily for 35 years and will reach new record highs. Aggravated assault, muggings, knife murders, arson and gunfire will become even more common.
• Housing shortage is growing. More and more young people can not leave home because a large proportion of existing houses is a priority to immigrants. This is a conscious priority from politicians. But they do not speak loudly about it.

The Paradox of Openness

• The government Reinfeldt talk about “transparency”. There is a problematic paradox. The more open borders of Sweden, and the more immigration from Muslim countries, the more it reduces the transparency and freedom of expression. We get more of introversion, fear, censorship and political correctness. It is the inexorable consequence wherever Islam has influence. In multicultural societies throughout the world is freedom of speech, the first major victim. Criticizing Islam is often punishable by death.
• Propaganda will increase. The clearer the Swedish people are experiencing the impact of government policy, the greater the propaganda efforts. Media are of course included as megaphones. It is already very clear. Have we ever heard so many speak in lofty falsetto of “equal value”, sometimes replaced with “everybody’s unique value”, as after the election? There will be more. To get us to swallow the government with its policy of deliberately destroying our country by increasing the mass immigration, we will be the subject of “values action”, that is political propaganda designed to change our attitudes and eliminate the traces of self-preservation that might be left. We will hear more about “tolerance”, “enrichment”, “transparency”, “Swedish tradition”, “humanity”, “values”, “action against racism” and “immigrants are needed to safeguard the welfare”.

Internet is a democratic revolution

What the government of Reinfeldt ignores is a force that has grown enormously in importance only since the 2006 election. I refer to the Internet, and I would say that no state propaganda machine has any longer a fraction of the power it had before the advent of the Internet, if we ignore the dictatorships. The Internet is the largest democratic breakthrough since the invention of printing. This is where hope is. To maintain a healthy scepticism read independent blogs and other free information on the Internet, one of the best immune-enhancing measures that can be taken against the old media’s misinformation.

• As long as the center-right alliance government continues its unbridled mass immigration policy, the recent sustained Sweden Democrats will continue to grow. SD has doubled its share of voters in every election so far. There is no indication that this trend will be broken. All seven of the old parliamentary parties seem to be unable to recognize that it is their policies that are the basis for SD’s success. People are voting in large part to the SD of powerlessness and protest that the seven party conglomerate does not give them any choice.

The bad judgment of the Prime minister

Rather than examine themselves for possible causes why 340 000 voters voted in the SD in parliament, Fredrik Reinfeldt finds it hard to hide that he is terminally provoked by the democratic election results. He is so provoked that he regresses to the sandpit level for kiddies. On several occasions he has shown poor discretion and poor self-control. He seems more like a man with totalitarian ambitions and an ominous inability to control his temper. A small collection of quotes:

Old Swedish traditions are simply barbarism. The rest of the development has come from outside. “

Said in immigrant dense Ronna in Södertälje a  few weeks after the 2006 elections.

I would like to point out that those who live on boosting a we-and-them mentality and a fundamentally hateful way of looking at relationships between people should not be surprised if this happens.

Said in Malmö about Sweden Democrats just before the election, after violent attacks against SD politicians and organized disturbances of the party’s public meetings.

They, the Sweden Democrats, are in fact saying that it is people, not the system, which is wrong, that they should be expelled because they look different from us. (Göteborgs-Posten, not online, on 7 October.)

Lies at the National Press Club

Fredrik Reinfeldt apparently thinks he can crush the SD by showing contempt and sneering. He shows, for a Father of the Nation, spectacular unrestrained, scornful and arrogant behaviour. The National Press Club’s post-election debate at the time of 1:25 gives the prime minister a formidable show of scorn and contempt.

He is churning out that it is the whole idea of  SD and their breath of life to be misunderstood and have a martyr’s role, they love it. Whether they also love to be abused and knife-cut, he does not answer. As if that was not enough with contempt and arrogance the Prime Minister is lying in an astonishing way in the PC-debate. He claims that it is impossible to change the Swedish immigration policy that “we are bound by international conventions, agreements and the growing EU-regulated policy that we follow.” It is a sensational claim. So we have a Prime Minister who deliberately tries to mislead people into believing that all foreigners who come to Sweden are refugees and that Sweden is bound by international conventions to take them all. In fact, the refugees who have been granted asylum in Sweden under the Geneva Convention in the past 30 years, is a paltry 5% of all persons entitled to the PUT. This year, the proportion falls to 2%.

Fredrik Reinfeldt will never be a Father of the Nation

No,  Fredrik Reinfeldt will never be a Father of the Nation. For such a necessary personal maturity. Reinfeldt’s totalitarian ambition of power is too obvious, his personal immaturity too big. There are personality traits that will cause it to him. When politicians have so far been forced to resign, the reason most often has been to find weaknesses in the personal character. Power intoxication in combination with a lack of maturity and self-distance has got this person to believe that you can get away with financial irregularities and other abuses of power. Some examples: Attorney General Ove Rainer 1983, Attorney Anna-Greta Leijon, 1988, Mona Sahlin, 1995, Laila Freivalds, who resigned twice, in 2000 and 2006 – all Social Democrats, Schyman (v) 2003, Maria Borelius and Cecilia Stegö Chilò 2006, Sven- Otto Littorin 2010, all Conservatives.

Reinfeldt has not a particularly reassuring environment either. The assignments as group leader of the Moderate Party and chairman of the Finance Committee has gone to Anna Kinberg Batra. About her S R Larson writes, a researcher at a U.S. Think Tank , on the blog Hayekinstitutet:

Kinberg is certainly a nice person, but a pure political animal, and equipped with a political cynicism, which, unfortunately, over the years, has gained the upper hand. One of her most illustrative political comments came when I confronted her with an arbitrary police working method: they set up general identity checks in the subway in Tensta and Rinkeby and extracted from travellers their identity cards without any reason. Kinberg was sitting at the time in the Board of Directors of the Police and I invited her to address the issue. When she hesitated, I asked if she would be equally hesitating whether this was been out on Stureplan. Her response was that “I have more voters in Spy Bar than  in Rinkeby”.

Kinberg’s political cynicism, combined with her genuine lack of training in macroeconomics and knowledge of economic policy makes it extremely problematic to have her as chairman of the Finance Committee. She stood in line to become a minister this time, but the prime minister is apparently hesitant regarding her past. Therefore, she got the rather heavy position as finance committee chairman – in other words, she got it for exactly the wrong reason.

Since I have been drinking alcohol in the company of both the Lego Minister (Anders Borg) and Mrs Kinberg Batra, I have had the opportunity to discuss politics with them both in, shall we say relaxed conditions. The gist of the discussions is that the economic policy of Sweden is now led by a formidable duo of ignorant former Socialist clowns who will make Ringholm and Jan Bergkvist look like geniuses.

With the policy of the Government of Sweden the only thing remaining is to choose a new people. And that is precisely what is going on.

By Julia Caesar

Earlier Chronicles by the same author: Julia Caesar: När Sverige rämnade and Fler ministrar borde gråta. Tjugoen oönskade krönikor, 2010.

[Translated after permission from author,  by Ralph Haglund....]

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By Sam Orbaum (humor column)
May 14, 2002

The only ones starving in the Ramallah siege were Arafat’s guests.

Well, the Jenin Holocaust is over, praise be Allah. We’ll never know how many innocent millions were killed (some more than once), but the scope of the tragedy can be measured by the staggering number of cancelled subscriptions to Terrorist Weekly.

While the genocide of innocent terrorists was going on (according to Palestinian sources, the Israelis used atom
bombs on Jenin. No, really!), almost forgotten was the heroic Ramallah Ghetto Uprising.

Yasser Arafat (the Gaza Gaon) and his luminary disciples, armed only with one short stick (honest!), staved off the Nazis’ relentless onslaught for weeks, emerging miraculously unscathed, though unshaven. And fatter.

No one noticed this, except for Yasser’s faithful wife Suha. From her tony digs in Paris, the Palestinian First Lady was watching on TV all the horrific tragedies befalling her beloved people at poolside (no, no – Suha was poolside; her beloved people were botzdeep), when suddenly she noticed a scruffy, big-lipped, fat little fellow on the TV screen.

“Hey, that’s my scruffy, big-lipped, fat little husband!” she exclaimed to her attendants. She was very proud.
But if he was beseiged under the direst conditions for weeks and weeks, heroically withstanding an entire army
almost singlehandedly, how did Arafat get Arafatter? According to heroic Palestinian sources, they survived on
nothing but their own heroism. “We swallowed our pride,” Arafatter explained. According to The Jerusalem Post, they survived on Osem, Telma and Tnuva.

Look, you can believe what you want, but this was actually in the newspaper, so it must be true: during the 25-day period of the siege in Ramallah, the IDF allowed entry of 70 food items. The list, provided by the IDF and published in the Post, included: 13,200 pitot, 420 cans of humous, 423 cans of tuna, 100 kg. of potatoes and rice, soup mix, spices, cheeses, 720 bottles of Coca-Cola, one box of cornflakes, 30 cans of coffee, 155 boxes of tea, 360 kg of sugar, 100 heads of lettuce, 65 kg. of lemons, 24 watermelons, 40 kg. of grapes, and 60 kg. of assorted fruits. (Think of the poor delivery guy at the makolet.)

International human rights organizations will say sure, all that food, but nothing to eat it with (a form of
psychological torture the Israelis learned from the Nazis). However, the list includes 3,000 spoons, not to mention 270 packages of toilet paper (“sure, one-ply, another form of psychological torture”), and 120 cartons of cigarettes (“another form of Israeli genocide”), all of which comprise standard starvation rations in concentration camps such as this. That explains how Arafat got Arafatter.

I have only one question: One box of cornflakes?! This single item, more than anything else, provides clues
of what life was like in the beseiged headquarters, and raises a lot of troubling suspicions. I’ve been wondering
about this night and day. Why cornflakes? Which cornflakes? What size box – family size, economy size, jumbo size, headquarters size? And above all, why only one? I mean, 13,200 pitot! 423 cans of (presumably dolphin-safe) tuna! 720 bottles of Coke! 65 kilos of lemons! And yet 1 box of cereal.

This is more tonnage than they brought over on the Karine A! These guys ate pretty well, more than entire Palestinian towns, yet human rights organizations claimed the captives were not supplied with food for 11 days. The Post story reported that “when Arafat met with European ambassadors, a complaint was relayed that foreign guests had not been given any food except for eggs.”

No smoked salmon. No caviar. No hors d’oeuvres. The European diplomats diplomatically blamed Israel. OK, that’s fair. But the Palestinians had all that humous and didn’t serve it to visitors?

Maybe there were no waiters in the compound, I don’t know. In any case, I don’t think we should be blamed for that.

And making Europeans eat eggs without a fork, well! Were Muslim captives forced to ingest Zionist-produced
cornflakes, which is against their religious beliefs? If so, that is a war crime.

The UN is asking questions. If it was Telma cornflakes, jumbo size, purchased at the Zilzol super in Beit Shemesh, it so happens they were on sale, two for the price of one, which means whoever bought it gave one box to the Palestinians and smuggled one box to his wife, which is also a war crime.

But the terrorists’ shopping list clearly stated “one box.” Even if only one person eats the stuff, he’d need more than one box for all those weeks in captivity, right?

Maybe one of the terrorists decided to make a cheese cake, and needed just a small amount of cornflakes for the crunchy base. But that’s impossible: intelligence sources note that Arafat’s headquarters did not have a mixing bowl.

It is a known fact that Arafat eats a bowl of Ugi every morning (crumbs have been detected in his stubble), so why one box of cornflakes and not six or seven boxes of Ugi?

Aha!, say the human rights people, all of whom know the Geneva Convention by heart.

Prime Minister Sharon, who is believed to personally dislike Arafat, wanted to send in Rice Krispies, remembering that Arafat once admitted in an interview that the cereal’s noise, detonated by milk, irritates him. But Foreign Minister Peres (why does everyone think he’s the Palestinian foreign minister?) pointed out that given the situation – with so many fingers on so many triggers – the snap, crackle and pop could start a war.

And go explain that to the UN.

Could be one of the terrorists had a riboflavin deficiency, and without a cornflake a day he would die. It’s a little farfetched to suggest that the Palestinians needed the cornflakes as a key component in making weapons
(well, it is a “vital source of iron”), but this is the Middle East, so it’s quite possible. (This is serious here,
so I’m not going to make a silly pun about “Killogg’s,” but feel free to do so yourself.) Many people like to read a cereal box while eating breakfast. Well, Palestinian terrorists are people too! This is one of the more rational theories, and it would explain why one box was enough.

I’m not making fun of the Palestinians, and certainly not of Arafat, who after all, did marry Suha. Look, I would do the same if I were surrounded by the Palestinian army for more than a month: I would also draw up a shopping list, though I’d ask for Special K (and if someone else was paying for it, I’d ask for more than one box). Less tuna, please, but a few hundred steaks instead, and toothpicks. (The Palestinians did ask for toothpicks, but the Israelis refused, afraid they’d use them to burrow a tunnel to safety in Europe.)

Anyway, the siege is over, and the terrorists are now free and safe and hungry again, which is why they’ve hurried over to Arafat’s headquarters in Gaza. They heard the IDF is going in, and the local makolet has been alerted.
 

Julia Caesar is one of the few in Sweden who is politically incorrect enough to tell the truth.

Sunday Chronicle:: Letter to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden

May 9, 2010

Copyright © Julia Caesar, Snaphanen

I have received a letter from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. It’s not every day you get a letter from the Prime Minister, so I feel honored and read the letter carefully. Fredrik Reinfeldt writes:

“I want to leave a clear message from the Conservatives. We see all of you. “

Thanks, it feels good to know.

I’ve been thinking about what to answer Fred. For I belong to a generation that believes that one should respond to a letter. I hope you will read my reply, Fred. Now I begin:

Dear Fred!

Thank you for your letter. I understand that I mean a lot to you, because you do yourself the trouble to write me a letter. You write that you Conservatives will do everything to make Sweden a leading country. You want me to know that you can see me and all those living in Sweden. You want my vote.

Sorry if I sound a little brutal. But, dear Frederick, feel blown! My vote you will not have.

The Sweden which you and the rest of the alliance government has created is nothing that I want. Everything that was nice and safe in Sweden you have dismantled and destroyed. It was Sweden that I and others in my generation and generations before me built up, a country that we loved and wanted to preserve.

Grief over a lost Sweden

We are many now living, mind you, who mourn a lost Sweden. We grew up in a country where it was safe to live, where you could trust each other and where there was a belief in the future. Many of us were poor, but with training and individual work, we could build a future for ourselves and our children. The country has been taken from us. The grief we bear constantly in us, is deep and sore. If you only knew how many tears I’ve cried over my lost country. Not so much for my own sake as for those I love and who come after me. The country that I wanted to give them no longer exists.

Yes, I know you were born in 1965 and was only a ten year old kid when the Swedish Parliament in 1975 took the unanimous decision to turn Sweden into a multicultural country. Probably you played football and was good in school at that time. I can not accuse you of that decision. It was the Social Democrats that formed the basis for mass immigration policy and put it in the system. But you in the center-right bloc can not just wash your hands. All political decisions of importance in this area have been unanimous. And you and other members of the alliance have not only continued to take a completely irresponsible policy. You have stepped up to even more madness.

Old Swedish is simply barbarism

I actually thought of you when you came to power 2006 I thought you could change anything about immigration policy after years of social democratic misrule. But when I opened the newspaper on 15 November 2006 – you had been prime minister for a month – I was disappointed. You had visited the immigrant area of Ronna in Södertälje and said verbatim:

“Old Swedish is only barbarism. The rest of the development has come from outside. “

In any other country can a prime minister with impunity spit on his own country and its people, and even think they reap any points on it? Furthermore, what you are saying is not true. Sweden has had trade relations with the rest of the world for more than a thousand years. But if you  immigration development, so it was up to the 1950′s extremely limited. After 1970, however, we imported a considerable savagery.

You and your alliance friends engaged in the most extreme immigration policies. I wonder if you even noticed it? With the life you live, you will of course never actually be in contact with the immigration policy implications. Like all the other elite you live sheltered in an ethnic isolate. It is other people’s daughters who are raped in Sweden, European record of rape. It is other children who are being robbed, beaten and murdered.It is elderly parents of other people who are lying for hours in their feces when old-age care has exhausted their resources.

I have lived in multiculturalism

You must excuse me if I get a little personal. But unlike you and others who seek diversity, I have actually experienced it in my own life. For some years I lived in a multicultural area near you. It is the year I want to forget. There were fires in the elevators. The walls to the basement storage areas were cut apart and the storages were emptied. My bike was dismantled and stolen. A full day all residents sst trapped in our apartments after an immigrant fired up his apartment. The stairs were so smoke filled that you could not get out. Tulip bulbs that I planted in the flower beds were torn up even before they could flower. One morning I sat and ate breakfast, I heard banging from the stairwell. There stood a man in the process of beating the door of the apartment opposite with an ax. Yes, I was so enriched that I gotcockroaches in the kitchen cupboards and had to be evacuated while the apartment was cleaned up.

You know Fred, that the experience and many others have made me quite indifferent to multiculturalism. I know that many skilled immigrants have come to Sweden and work and contribute to welfare. It’s not them I’m talking about. It is the huge inlet of people who are not refugees or migrants prepared to take employment who worry me. As you know, they are in overwhelming majority.

I’ve actually read on and tried to figure out why you and the others in the alliance operate the multicultural policy with such a frenzy. But the more I read the less I understand. It can not be anything but enraged prestige that drives you. It is your own skin you are afraid of. Not ours. Only your own purses are well filled you don’t mind draining ours. Only you yourself can safely lean back in his chair from the Swedish Pewter in your safe inner-city apartments and villas  you happily leave for us to live with multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

Muslim mass immigration

You got the chance in 2006 to streamline Sweden’s immigration policy. You refused to take it. Instead, the contribution of immigration from Muslim countries has in recent years beaten all records, and according to all forecasts, the increase even more. More than 100 000 new PUT (permanent residence permits) are granted per year as free tickets to the welfare Swedish people have worked together and which will soon be a distant memory.

If you have not understood what the Muslim mass immigration means in the form of ever-greater demands for adaptation to a totalitarian, violent and oppressive ideology from the 600′s? Look around in Europe, Fred! See how Western culture and civilization, social trust and security are attacked in one country after another! Why would Sweden be spared Islamization and violence when we let in more immigrants from Muslim countries per capita than any other country and also has the world’s most faint-hearted politician, completely unable to set limits?

You probably think that I am unfair to focus solely on immigration policy. You’ve been doing other more important things. Yes, I know there was an economic crisis on top of everything else. You tended to emphasize it. You and Anders Borg have been busy with employment and to reduce exclusion, as you call it. But immigration policy is what has changed Sweden the most in modern times. And how is it that you are importing even more alienation in the form of tens of thousands of illiterate and others who, tojudge fairly, never will enter the labor market? Why did not you even limit the money-guzzling immigrationduring the deep economic crisis? How can we afford to be  the earth’s global social welfare office when you have cut back everything else? I and many others understand it simply can not be done.

The moderate Stalinism

Many people, especially your core voters, voted for you and the Conservatives for the emphasis of freedom. You say you care about people’s freedom to shape their own lives. It sounds so good. But what do you think those who voted for you for the sake of freedom of thought feel, when they were suddenly faced with the Moderate totalitarian, Stalinist side?

I simply say: Vellinge. The small municipality of Skåne, where the party secretary Per Schlingmann and Mr Billström let the moderate party whip whistle so that the echo, spread throughout the country. You forcedVellinge to accept the ultimatum: either voluntarily agree to accept so-called “unaccompanied refugee children” or be forced by law. You stomped the municipal autonomy down in the gravel. There is a name like that, dear Fred. It’s called Stalinism. Moderate Stalinism.

Or when you want the quota of women on company boards. Call it what you want Fred, but freedom it is not.

Yogurt, Islam and the contributions migrants

During your term, you have had time to be EU president too. Sweden had to lie fallow for a while. Instead, you devoted your energy to work for Turkey to join the EU. You made a fawning tour in Turkey where you claimed that “Europe needs Turkey”. Yes, you said even that Sweden needs Turkey. For what, I wonder? Why do we need yet another underdeveloped country that is not even in Europe? What can Turkey bring Europe more than yogurt, Islam and the contribution of migrants? Have we not enough of Muslim demand machines that live in self-imposed segregation and require everything from mosques to gender apartheid in public baths, hospitals and schools? Is it not enough that Greece must be supplied by the EU, namely from us? Perhaps we should first concern ourselves with Greece, Britain, Portugal and Spain’s crumbling economy before we draw to us more? And perhaps our own?

There are those who say that immigration policy wins no elections. Do you think that too, Fred? Is that why you refuse to discuss it? Or are you just painfully aware that you do not have any arguments? Do you think like crass party strategists that voters only care about dollars and cents? If so, you really need to relieve the Swedish taxpayers from the enormous burden on our shoulders, the costs of immigration. Here you have a real saving tip!

It is true that you and all the politicians before you consistently refused to disclose the cost of this particular line. Curiously, as all other costs are constantly analyzed in all ways. You know that it concerns hundreds of billions a year. But it is not allowed to be recognized in the event that the Swedish people would get the idea of rebelling.

Social Conservatives – a totalitarian party

Now for the first time a critical immigration party, Sweden Democrats, is on the way into parliament. I am sorry to say it, Fred, but you’ll have permission to swallow it. Instead of fretting and bite your nails, I suggest you search yourself and others in the alliance – hard. For there is nobody else but you who have paved the way for SD. With everything you have done and especially what you have done during your four years in power, you have been preparing for the SD and strewed palm leaves and roses in their path. You have made it through kicking liker a donkey to continue to run the world’s most extreme immigration policies and stubborn as mountain goats you refuse to discuss it. Arrogance of power speaks for itself. Do not think for one moment that we voters do not note it.

Unless otherwise noted we do it when your party and the Social Democrats recently declared themselves ready to govern the municipality of Stockholm together in a cross-bloc majority to close the Sweden Democrats out there. Of course, the pan of both parties had it anchored in their respective party lines. And of course there is the same plan at the national level. Social Conservatives, a totalitarian party.

One-party democracy and buried

Love for one’s own power and privileges by far trumps respect for voters and for democracy. We are not dumber than we understand. Clearer voter disdain can not be demonstrated. No price is too high for you to avoid complying with the popular will. You are even willing to form a one-party state and bury democracy.

What should it say on the gravestone? How about this:

“Here lies Sweden’s democracy as we drove over countless times and finally managed to kill off in September 2010. Infinitely mourned and missed by the people of Sweden. “

But before you order the gravestone, Fred, I think you should ask yourself in the mirror. See yourself in the face. Look deep into your dark brown eyes and ask yourself if you can live with more betrayal. It is not just the voters who have a choice. You have also. Think again! Remap the course! Start working for the best of Sweden and the Swedish people’s best! It probably will feel strange at first, but I assure you that it is worth it. You will feel much better. You think it might not, but I want your very best.

Your affectionate Julia....

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By Sam Orbaum (humor column)
July 20, 2001

I saw in the paper that Canada is rated the most livable country in the world. Israel came in at about 23rd.

Y’see what I’m always saying about anti-Semitism?

I lived in Canada, and I can tell you, this is wrong. Canada should be 23rd at best. And it goes without saying
that Israel should be No. 1.

For instance, November in Israel. I lift my head off my ultra-comfortable Kiryat Gat-manufactured pillow, open the trissim (unavailable in Canada), and decide I can still wear shorts and a T-shirt.

In Canada, in November, I’d be hacking at the triple-glazed windows with a harpoon to clear some ice to check how deep the snowdrifts are, and decide on thermal underwear, lumberjack shirt, ski sweater, Eskimo parka, triple-thick socks, mukluks; earmuffs and tuque – just to retrieve the newspaper from the porch.

The newspaper will have to be thawed in the toaster oven, but it’s not worth the bother because, unlike over here, over there nothing ever happens, so why do they even need newspapers?

There are usually two or three warm days a year when Canadians can wear shorts and a T-shirt, but they have to bring along an umbrella and rain boots just in case.

Over there, summer is a brief season that separates the winters. Summers are great in Canada, because at least it’s only raining. In Israel, there’s not a cloud in the sky for six months.

They like to say that rain you don’t have to shovel, but they overlook the fact that what floods their basements every year is not snow. Here, we get precisely as much annual precipitation as our yearly water consumption requires.

In Canada, wherever you go, you have to detour around huge lakes and seas, so it takes much longer to get places. In Israel, we have one little lake far away, and our seas are conveniently placed along the sides.

In Israel, you could spit a sunflower seed from the west coast to the east coast; in Canada, Apollo 11 couldn’t get from one end to the other. In the other directions, Canada’s ajoke: y’ever hear anyone say, “I’m goin’ up to the north coast for a vacation, eh?”? And to go south, they have to leave the country. That is because Canada’s entire population lives along one road, the Trans Canada Highway, which, unlike the Trans Israel Highway, no one objects to because who gets excited about paving over holy Canadian land?

Here, every grain is holy, every rock is worth a debate in the United Nations.

And that’s another thing. Does the UN ever condemn Canada?

Circulate a poll around the world about Canada, and 99 percent will respond “No opinion.” Ask about Israel, and 99 percent will have an opinion, even if it’s negative.

Canada has the longest unguarded border in the world, which means undesirable Americans can enter at will. Just let them try sneaking into Israel!

(We’ve got laws about things like that.)

Canada has indigenous natives and territories, just like Israel, but they put their natives into reservations, while we give ours land to create their own country. And this proves everything: Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories are as much a part of Canada as the territories (including Ma’aleh Adumim and Efrat) are a part of Israel, but over there, nobody’s willing to go to war over the chance to live there, and that’s because Canada is
unlivable.

Canada has more Goyim per capita than Israel, so the Jews have to behave, while here, we’re free ti behave like shkotzim if we want, which many do.

Oh sure, they have hockey over there, but all the Canadian teams suck.

Israelis commit crimes in Canada and then escape to Israel - it doesn’t happen often, but it never happens the other way around. The reason is obvious.

Israel is crawling with soldiers, which can only mean it’s safer here.

BUREAUCRACY IS much better in Israel. In Canada, you get a form to fill in, and eventually you get an answer, yes or no. Here, you’re treated like a human being. Our bureaucrats excel at interpersonal skills, they get involved, they care: you won’t just be given a form to fill until they’ve had a chat with you. “What’s your problem?” they’ll ask, and “Wait” (i.e., let’s spend some time together) and “Come back tomorrow” (i.e., let’s talk some more). Eventually you get an answer, no, because they know that as an Israeli you should be satisfied with what you’ve got.

There’s so much more lax money for our goveniment to improve our quality of life with.

Housing is an important aspect of livability, and here again, there’s no comparison. In Canada, unless you live in an igloo or at the Salvation Anny, you have two or three stories with so many rooms that a family never sees one another except at weddings. Like, who needs a living room and a den and an office and a work room and a guest room and a spare room, not to mention a spacious attic and a fully furnished basanent, two-car garage, driveway, front lawn and backyaid, and built-in skating rink? That’s for your basic Canadian three- person family, and does not include the summer cottage. For a basic, average Israeli family of six (not including the relatives and neighbors who come and go), a living room is all we need, and who doesn’t have one?

You know what it’s like to furnish a Canadian home? Or to clean one?

Tell me this doesn’t prove everything: Canadian homes have wooden floors (it’s such an embarrassment  that they put down wall-to-wall carpeting). Here? Marble.

You know what it’s like to drive there? It’s so boring, it’s dangerous.

All the roads are straight, everyone drives safely, nobody goes too fast. It’s hard to stay awake, unlike here, where you have to be constantly alert even when your car is parked.

In Canada, they’re always making you feel guilty about things like recycling, environmentalism, air quality, neighborliness, excess noise, civic pride. Here, we are not bothered about such things, and no one feels guilty.

Regarding food, it’s no contest. While it is tnie that you can’t get a Schwartz’s smoked-meat sandwich in Israel, and the best lox on earth is from Canada, and there’s nothing like a Montreal bagel, and a simple Canadian steak is the size of a cow and a half, a simple plate of humous in Canada is considered “exotic fare” and “ethnic” and therefore costs double.

There is only one time zone in Israel, which proves everything.

If you get tired of being in Canada (and who wouldn’t?) you can get in your car and visit the US, which is the same thing only less so. To see some place considered different, you have to spend many hours in a plane.

Not us. No one’s more than a IO-minute drive from such exotic destinations as Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt. Soon, too, thankfully, Palestine. And by plane, just a couple of hours away, the biggest problem is the choice: Armenia, Macedonia, Romania, Albania, Azerbaijan.

And you know what? Israelis would rather stay in Israel, because life is so livable here!

What Canadian wouldn’t love to vacation at the Mediterranean Sea? What Israeli would want to vacation at Baffin Bay?

Canadians join the army for the chance to serve in the vicinity of this great country, but no Israeli soldier would even hope to (to miluim in Canada. The reason is obvious.

In Canada, Shabbat just isn’t Shabbat.

Where would you rather call home, Safed, or Moose Jaw? Jerusalem, or Medicine Hat?

If Canada’s so great, how come so few people live there? There’s enough space in Canada for every single human being on earth, as long as no one wants to lie down, but the population density is only eight per square mile. There are 90 times as many Israelis in a given space (719 per square mile, or, converted into Israeli terms, 84.5persons per Egged bus), which proves that, if so many people live here, Israel is more livable.

Finally, there’s this: according to statistics, Canadians are less likely to be alive (11.86 births per 1,000, compared to 19.83 in Israel), and how can you call a country “livable” when people are dropping like flies (7.26 deaths per 1,000 Canadians, compared to 6.16 for Israeli persons and 7.26 for Israeli flies)? And there’s a reason for this: in Canada, there is one doctor for every 534 people (including Canadians who are perfectly
healthy, which seems like a waste of doctors). In Israel, where we eat much more gefilte fish and hilbe than Canadians do, and much less whale blubber, there are 206 physicians for every Israeli (my source book says one physician for every 206 Israelis, but they obviously got it backwards).
See?

The life expectancy for males in the snow and ice and slush is 76.12 years (if you call that living), while here we live to a ripe old 76.71. During that extra 215 days, eight hours and seven minutes when they’re dead and-we’re still alive, it’s more livable here; go argue with that.

(Dedicated to my old friend Mike Marmor, and his family, who are making aliya from Canada on Sunday. Trust me, Mike, it’s better overhere.)

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Four weeks have passed since the suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, 29, blew himself up in the middle of Christmas shopping in Stockholm. According to Zia Alkanani, head of Iraq’s anti-terror agency, the TV channel al-Arabiya, Abdulwahab was trained in jihad in the Iraqi city of Mosul during the three months before the terrorist attack.

The data are consistent with the message that Abdulwahab himself left behind in a sound file. He asks his family for forgiveness because he had lied. He had not traveled to the Middle East because of work. The cause was training as suicide bomber. Taimour Abdulwahab’s intention was to take as many innocents as possible with him in death.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (m) took 19 hours before he said a single word about the terrorist attack to the Swedish people. And when he opened his mouth, then came – nothing more than empty platitudes.

“What has happened is undesirable and unacceptable,” said Reinfeldt. Real powerful words in a national emergency. Then he called the terrorist attack “unacceptable, as Sweden is an open society” and spoke of “safeguarding the Swedish transparency and have patience with democracy.”

Twelve days of silence

Twelve days have passed since four Swedish nationals and asylum seekers in Denmark were arrested on suspicion of advanced plans for a massacre against the Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen:

• Mounir Dhahri, 44-year-old native of Tunisia.

• Omar Abdalla Aboelazm, 30-year-old Lebanese with Swedish citizenship

• A Salman, 26-year-old Iraqi, asylum seeker in Denmark.

• Munir Awad, 29-year-old from Lebanon with Swedish citizenship.

In Sweden was  Sahbi Zalouti Ben Mohamed, 37, arrested, registered for census purposes in Järfälla. Tunisian with Swedish citizenship. Fredrik Reinfeldt is silent. Twelve days of silence. His silence roars like thunder in the sky. It eats into our minds, the harsh vacuum of us – just in the inner room where the security and confidence have their abode. We nine and a half million Swedish citizens are left to ourselves with our questions and our concerns. The person whose responsibility it is to explain what is happening to our country, the one whose job it is to take our fears seriously, is silent.

The place where there sould be a mature and responsible leader is echoing empty.

The position as Father of the nation is vacant.

A 27-year “unaccompanied refugee child”

A few days into the new year the “unaccompanied refugee child” Abudala Karim was apprehended in Uganda on suspicion of belonging to the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. He was assumed to be on his way to Kampala to perform a suicide bombing. The man lives in Sundsvall. In his pocket he has a two month old Swedish alien’s passport, plus a Kenyan passport. The Kenyan passport shows that the man is from Kenya and was born in 1983, thus 27 years old – not born in 1992 and from Somalia that he has cheated about to the Swedish authorities. He has brought himself into Sweden on false premises, large tears rolling in force as an “unaccompanied refugee child” has been applied and a permanent residence permit, PUT, was granted without any unnecessary issues raised.

The blog world is as usual the first to report on the arrest, including the Merit Wager’s blog and Politically Incorrect.

Bosnian war criminals

Around the same time 42-year-old Mirsad Mesanovic was arrested at Kastrup Airport, Bosnian with Swedish citizenship, on suspicion of murder during the Balkan War 1991.

Mesanovic is since 2007 the subject of a Slovenian arrest warrant for war crimes. But Swedish prosecutors has redefined the crime as manslaughter, which means that it cannot be prosecuted any longer. He lives in Åhus in Skåne, is married and has two children, sports coach, local politician on the Left and juror.

In court is a different war criminal, Ahmet Makitan, 44, charged with aggravated breach of international law, murder, kidnapping and torture. He was a school janitor in Sollefteå until his secret was revealed. During the civil wars in the Balkans in 1992 Ahmet Makitan served as camp guard at concentration camp Dretelj in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is the first war criminal who has been arrested in Sweden and put on trial.

It is a beautiful little collection, products of the unprecedentedly lax asylum policies of Sweden. Sweden is a lawless country. The Immigration Act does not apply. The Swedish handling of asylum cases and other immigration exposes Swedish citizens’ lives to risk. And not just us. They are now detained Islamists, brought to a safe haven in Sweden who had intended to slaughter the entire Jyllands-Posten’s editorial board. Swedish immigration policy is not only an issue for Sweden. It also exposes people to our neighbors in grave danger. How long will they put up with that?

And Fredrik Reinfeldt shuts up.

The Prime Minister’s responsibility

Ultimately, this is Fredrik Reinfeldt’s responsibility. He has long been sailing on a prawn sandwich, with a working line as sails and boasted that he and Finance Minister Anders Borg have led Sweden through the financial crisis. Beautifully so. But underneath there are much larger structural problems to deal with, problems that are in the process of deleting Sweden as a welfare nation. The large, never acknowledged leak in the Swedish economy is the costs of the immigration policy. And now it is clear what many of us have suspected a long time: that thanks to our “goodness” and “humanity” we have within our country’s borders around a thousand war criminals, and an unknown number of Islamist terrorists (200 acording to SÄPO, the Security Police), who are both capable and seriously want to damage Sweden and Swedes, plus other Nordic countries in the name of Islam.

And Fredrik Reinfeldt shuts up. Never has a silence rumbled so loud. The unspoken words sound like trumpets.

But what should the prime minister say? Regardless of the political basis it is possible to understand his difficulties. He can not very well blame the Socialists, although they probably were the ones who ruled Sweden when the suspected terrorists sought asylum and generously were granted both permanent residence and Swedish citizenship. He knows that in the case of the irresponsible immigration policy, he and the Alliance are  just the same birds of a feather as the other old parliamentary parties. Yes worse!

New asylum records year after year

It is a fact that the number of asylum applications and the number of new residence permits granted in Sweden has broken new records year after year ever since the center-right alliance government came to power in 2006 In 2010, it was a record again. According to the Migration Board’s preliminary statistics 31 901 persons applied for asylum in Sweden compared with 24 232 in 2009. An increase of over 30%. The so-called “unaccompanied refugee children”, that is, the bearded young men who often lie to get a quick path into the country and represent the vanguard for their large families, increased from 2250 in 2009 to 2394. At the same time the corresponding figures have drastically decreased in the other Nordic countries.

Fredrik Reinfeldt can not say that he is unaware that an unknown number of terrorists and war criminals slip by in the handling of the lawless raffle which is Swedish asylum policy. If so he is both lying and seems to be remarkably stupid. So what should Fredrik Reinfeldt really say? It is not easy to know. His dilemma is that once he opens his mouth, out jump the frogs that seeks its equal in stupidity, hatred of the Swedes and contempt in judgment.

We Swedes do not exist

Some examples – the parade is getting quite long by now. It was extremely unfortunate, just a few months after his election victory in 2006 when the Prime Minister visited immigrant dense suburb Ronna in Södertälje:

“Old Swedish is only barbarism. The rest of the development has come from the outside. “(14 November 2006.)

Booom! There we Swedes got it in the face, so we kept quiet. Barbarians are what we are. It is the immigrants who have been responsible for Sweden’s development, not us.

After the beating of 24-year-old SD politician David von Arnold in Malmö in the election campaign in 2010:

“I would like to point out that those who live on running up an “us-and-them” mentality and a fundamentally hateful way of looking at relationships between people should not be surprised if that happens.”

If you get beaten because you are politician you can thus blame yourself. At least if you are Sverigedemokrat.

An unmatched record is the Prime Minister’s statements in a debate in the Riksdag on 9 December 2010 with the Sweden Democrats’ leader Jimmie Åkesson.

Åkesson requires that the law on hate speech also applies to Swedes in the situations where the Swedish origin of the population is in minority and violated, for example in schools or workplaces. Pay particular attention to Mona Sahlin’s (s), mocking faces in the background when Jimmie Åkesson makes his question. It is two days before the suicide attack in Stockholm City, but no one knows on this particular day. Fredrik Reinfeldt says:

“That there is a group that could be defined as the Swedes, and I understand that there is great interest in Sweden Democrats to keep coming back to the formulation, turns out very often be difficult to define. There are so many who feel Swedish and suddenly being told that they are not. It will be strange if you try to define it. ”

Bad luck, when he manifests itself?

Either Fredrik Reinfeldt is totally clueless. Or perhaps he has a plain improbable bad luck when he manifests itself. I’m leaning towards the former. In Reinfeldt’s brain, there is simply no such thing as Swedes, even less pure Swedes. For him, everyone who has happened to set foot on Swedish soil is a Swede, a view he also shares with most of the press corps. He has such a bad perception of reality that he does not understand what tremendous violation it  is towards the original population of Sweden when he repeatedly cast out these misguided statements. It is bad, very bad.

Many of his statements show an arrogance, moodiness and need for prestige, which ultimately seems to stem from an insecurity and immaturity. Fredrik Reinfeldt’s costume is definitely too big, and it will be long before he grows into it.

And Fredrik Reinfeldt shuts up. Perhaps he has “winter vacation”, what we usually call the Christmas holiday. But terrorism has not taken Christmas holiday. It lives around the clock, year round, and it wants to destroy us.

“We will leave no stone unturned”

On the debate site Newsmill, Eduardo Grutzky, Argentine-jew refugee and former youth leader of the suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab, writes:

“The current political situation in Sweden will provide the high season for all sorts of reactionaries, who claim to be able to stop young men from becoming terrorists. Society’s response should be the opposite: instead of the Prime Minister’s words that the suicide bomb was “undesirable”, the message should be that “we will turn over every stone”.

Eduardo Grutzky rejects the Swedish method to try to appease the Islamists,  the misconception that if we are good to them, they will be kind to us. That kind of logic is completely unknown in Islam.

“Those who govern Sweden now grope for measures to appease the Islamists, so they in turn can affect the” too radical “and violent Islamists. Concessions to a violent and destructive power was tested as we know, before the Second World War. The result was not satisfactory. Hitler interpreted every concession as a sign of weakness and managed during a crucial period to build up their strength and eventually almost destroy the well-intentioned nations  who at all costs had been trying to avoid a conflict. When those in power are afraid, they want to negotiate and avoid conflict. ”

This should Fredrik Reinfeldt have told the Swedish people

I’ll give Fredrik Reinfeldt  further suggestions. This he should say to the Swedish people:

“I ask the Swedish people unreservedly for an apology for the concern and the damage that I and my government has done to you by misguided immigration policies. The consequences we can see now, and they are not unexpected. In our attempt to be nicer and more generous than any other country, we have completely lost contact with the ground and allowed the development to run off at an unsustainable way. For decades we have  released the terrorists, war criminals, fanatical Islamists, rapists, murderers and other people of whose identity we do not have a clue, and they are completely out of control now. We just have not bothered to ensure that the Immigration Service follows the Aliens Act because we are so incredibly terrified of being called “racists” or “xenophobic”. It has been and is far more important for us to demonize the Sweden Democrats as much as possible and by all means make sure that they do not get any political influence, although they have 20 seats in parliament, than to conduct a responsible immigration policy. It has also been more important for us to get a pure Islamist, Abdirisak Waberi, in parliament than to open ourselves to cooperation with the Sweden Democrats. Prestige considerations is always the heaviest.

“I regret it deeply and am devastated”

All of this I regret deeply. Yes, I am devastated. I have not understood the seriousness until the explosion on Bryggargatan, and barely even then. I have tried to be a multicultural Prime Minister to appease all immigrants. But something went wrong, I understand now. From now on, I and my alliance mates will radically tighten asylum and immigration policy. We will only grant asylum under the Geneva Convention, that is to say to people who really have grounds for asylum. We will be committed to tackling all forms of Islamization of Sweden. We agree that a totalitarian, violent and oppressive ideology of women from the 600′s is out of place in Sweden, and we will not spare any means to show it in action. All Islamic schools will be closed, all claims for special treatment of Muslims will be rejected and we will immediately raise the return premiums substantially for those who prove themselves impossible to integrate into Swedish society. Furthermore, we will invest significantly in the elimination of the Swedish shameful European Championships in rape by forceful action against sexual violence and other violent crime. Immigrants who commit crimes should be deported, and we will make a legislative change so that removal is possible even if you have had time to get a Swedish citizenship.

We, the moderates want Sweden to be a safe and open country to live in. Up to now we have not  given any indication of putting that into action. We have sailed calmly and chuckled delightedly about the people who rest content with pin-money in the form of earned income tax credits, there has been enough that you should vote for us. But we have our scouts out there on the web and the blogosphere, and we are starting to realize that there discontent is growing to a popular rage against our policy, despite the earned income tax credit.

If nothing else, we recognize the gravity now that terrorism has come to Sweden. Again, I ask without reservation Swedish people for an apology. The damage I have done is immeasurable, but I want to do everything possible to atone for it ”

Reality always have time to catch up

Such a statement we will of course never hear from the Prime Minister’s lips. Fredrik Reinfeldt is afraid. Anyone who has too big a costume knows it. A prime minister may have deficiencies. He can be cocky (as Goran Persson), great wisecrack and manipulative (as Olof Palme), autocratic (as Nicolas Sarkozy) or mixed buffalo and womanizer (as Silvio Berlusconi). He can live in bigamy, as Per Albin Hansson (s, 1885-1946). But one thing a prime minister may never be:  a cowardly weakling. A prime minister must have the backbone. He must have courage and integrity and be humble enough to change his mind when he chose the wrong course.

He must never betray his people. Ever. This Fredrik Reinfeldt has made, again and again. He has no reason to feel calm one minute. Reality always has time to catch up. When voters are no longer satisfied with an earned income tax credit but are beginning to ask awkward questions about Islamic terrorism, rape championships and other consequences of mass immigration, the moment of truth is there for the Alliance government and Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. The nightmare has only just begun.

By Julia Caesar

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