High Life

7 March 2009

The enemy within

See what I mean about hypocrisy? The creeps that lord it over us make rules according to what they fear most. Twenty-eight per cent of Malmo’s population is from the Middle East. Needless to say they will be backing Sweden against Israel, but only because it’s Israel. Otherwise they’d be for anyone but Sweden, to paraphrase Andy Murray when asked whom he was backing for the World Cup two years ago.

Mind you, there could be a silver lining. The Swedes say it’s all about security, like the powers that be in Dubai did when they banned Shahar Peer from playing there two weeks ago. Israel and the US slap the terrorist label on any group they prefer not to negotiate with for other reasons. The term terrorist has now become a proxy for the larger issues that divide America, Israel and the Arab world. The word is a joke among Arabs. Hamas is labelled a terrorist group, whereas Israel, with its actions against unarmed civilians, is not. Malmo’s decision could wake up some Likud people. There is outrage about Gaza and the West Bank settlements, and an empty stadium in Sweden might leave more of a mark on Israeli zealots than the empty condemnations of various dictatorial Arab regimes.

Given the fact that Swedes are more sports-minded than, say, Saudis, perhaps some of them will wake up also and think twice before voting in creeps who have sold the country out and flooded it with Muslims. Swedes are law-abiding but their Muslim brothers are not. Even watching the Davis Cup on television does not exclude violence. There is only one problem. Sweden will win and the brothers will go home happy.

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Fritz

March 5th, 2009 11:04am Report this comment

The terrorist label, thanks. Not all countries agree, see Hezbollah, but why is Hamas different?

Bill Corr

March 5th, 2009 7:19pm Report this comment

Only a true cad would find it a matter for quiet and satisfied amusement that the insufferably sanctimonious and holier-than-thou Swedes now find that all - all - their towns and cities have an immigrant problem and that Swedes' lives, present and future, are and will continue to be enriched by the presence of Somali rapists and Kurdish heroin dealers, among others.

Swedes of all kinds and classes - most notably Olaf Palme - hectored the civilized world about cruelty and wrongdoing in Dixie, Rhodesia, South Africa, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and so on ad bloody nauseam; now the Swedes have cities which resemble Beirut - without the good weather - and we can enjoy the spectacle without undue guilt.

We would enjoy the spectacle more if our own political class had not permitted Britain, and now Ireland, to be similarly enriched.

Gil

March 5th, 2009 7:42pm Report this comment

We still wait for Taki to tell us how Mossad was linked to Madoff. Until then lets treat his ramblings as those of a wind up merchant.

Does anyone else see the sick irony of Taki accusing one country of Apartheid (incorrect factually) while making hateful comments about Islam?

Fritz

March 5th, 2009 10:11pm Report this comment

Gil, you overlooked the last sentense. The reality is more complex than prejucices. Germany is full of sleepers, go to any university, but nobody would ever attack Germany, however crazy they may be, whatever it does. Germans turned Muslim returning from abroad may be something else.

Morgan Kane

March 6th, 2009 2:13pm Report this comment

Poor old Taki.
Still reliving his halcyon days at Le Rosey, cheering as newsreels show his Nazi heroes marching through the streets of Athens.

Graeme Anderssen

March 7th, 2009 7:24am Report this comment

Is there some mix up here? Should this Israel basher not be writing for The Guardian? This regurgitation of Palestinian rhetoric is tiresome. We have here the "repeat the lie often enough and it becomes truth" in action. What apartheid? What "criminal acts"? Why does this bleeding heart have nothing to say about the criminal acts of Hamas? And a nations right to self defense? Oh - if its Israel, then it's a "criminal act". It is enough to make you sick.

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