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Silence in face of hate
Tobias Petersson
Published: 31.03.12, 20:07
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61. Stupid kids
Roberto ,   Zagreb, Croatia   (04.01.12)
I don't get it. Arabs born in Sweden have amazing socioeconomic opportunities and they dare to ask for religious laws to be above the laws of Sweden. Sure, go live in Saudi Arabia and find out how perfect Sharia laws are when you live under them every single day. Then they burn Israeli flags? What for? Ask your Arab "brothers" in Israel would they move to Sharia country. I did ask many of them and all said: "NO. We have rights, freedom of speech and jobs here. Maybe we do not get along with Israelis as we would wish to, but this is better than Lebanon, Syria, not to mention Sharia countries." People from diaspora are the worst. You leave your country and plant seeds of hatred and only make lives of your brothers back home more difficult. You grow bitter plants of evil where your brothers try to have normal, caring and compassionate lives with their neighbors. We in Europe hate things you do. Your behavior brings prejudice in our hearts. You are not helping, but making things for everyone worse. How do you plan to be a constructive part of European society and ask benefits from us while only thing you do is extremism we do not tolerate? Really, go back to your homelands if Sharia is what you want. Otherwise, you are more than welcome to be a part of society that doesn't want fights, prejudices and wars. Great majority of us do not care are you Arab, Jew, Agnostic, Anti-theist or Pastafarian. But do stop your stupid adolescent quasi-macho shit. No one wants in own back yard.
62. #46 noor
solomon ,   bklyn   (04.01.12)
I do understand. But I also understand the facts that you avoid. Your people arrived well after the Jews and Berbers. You chose to attack Israel many times. You chose the path of murder and terrorism. You talk of the Arab crying child or a crying mother but not the Jewish one. You chose to be "Palestinian" in the 1960's. And your fellow Arabs kept you in camps as political pawns (while Israel absorbed the Jews thrown out of Arab countries, their ancestral homes). Look to your Arab 'bretheren' for the answer to your problems, as they are the ones that caused them.
63. to 62
noor ,   ramalla   (04.01.12)
i do not choose my mother but sure she was the one to affect my life and the one to aske its wise i like my aunt but she is never like my mother ....palastine is my mother . i said what i feel and what i know it is not a lie at least in my heart
64. The oldest hatred
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (04.01.12)
Anti-Semitism is rather unique. People who have never met a Jew are taught to hate us through the generations. And it's because of anything we have actually done. In all other hatreds, such as toward other ethnic groups the solution is always educating the haters and not the victims of the hatred. Yet with us - we are told that it must be us that is wrong instead of those that hate us. Herein lays the solution. Those that hate us are the ones that need to change and mature. We have nothing to apologize for.
65. #48 I'm married to a Jew
Line Singer ,   Aarhus, Denmark   (04.01.12)
Yes, I'm married to a Jew, and he's Israeli too. I didn't say that Israel is racist, I said the people in the Danish Defence League demonstration in Aarhus were racists. And that Israel should not want to be associated with them.
66. Europe is finished
Ken ,   Australia   (04.01.12)
Not only is Europe going to become an islamic state, the current islists are emblodened by the fact that europe is about to go down, yep stolen 70 years after hitler, useing the same Jew hatread import on Jews that was used as a technique by Nazis to export around the world how ironic, the Arab- Muslim push has worked and as they chant for the 2nd holocaust, the hatread that they are brain washed with is used as tool to push the rest of the Jews from Europe, what a grand plan the Arab world has embarked on , a complete hate campaign in the name of human rights, and against the Jews, re-kindleing every ounce of Jew hatread that is still under the cover. The more they get away with it the more harsh they will become, how this islamist element dealt with is the big question, because it is time to strike at it and relentlessly, before muslims think they can kill us on film and distribute it as a trophy to show they are eliminateing us , now we know where the second holocaust begins, did 6 million Jews die for nothing.
67. On Pesah the words will be "Ata behartanu"
Michael ,   California, USA   (04.01.12)
No matter how you look at it, these evil words "chosen people" have set all religion-based hatred around the world. Let's understand it clearly, Jews cannot avoid religion-based hatred as long as they believe in this imbecility.
68. There are a few sane Swedes, but not many
EZRA THE PROUD JEW ,   USA-ISRAEL   (04.01.12)
Sweden has lost its soul and its way a long time ago. Its no longer that neutral, beautiful nation with sophisticated people: today, Sweden is a cesspool of stupidity and racism. But perhaps thats what always lay underneath their veil which they showed to the world all of these years? Either way; europe as a whole, has lost its soul completely; unable to cope with the guilt of its nationalism, racism, hatred, past violence and genocidal tendencies and the atrocities it carried out time and again against the Jews. So what better way to lash out? I wish Sweden pays their karmic debt soon, in whole. And europe as well. They should all bake in their own waste for a while until they wisen up to humanity and its real potentials. What a shame and a sham.
69. Nr.67. So What -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (04.01.12)
The GOD of Israel is no lier and no fake !!!. The Imnecille here are You and if You will live, you will also see it. Arn.
70. #33, "Self hatred" is an accusation, never a fact.
Michael ,   California, USA   (04.01.12)
Many religious people will say that opponents or non-believers hate themselves. Absolute nonsense. People do not believe because there is nothing to believe in. Opponents to religion are those who see nothing positive in organized religion. Instead of arguing facts and be intellectual about it, people like you throw an accusation and walk away. I will also throw an accusation at you: you are shallow.
71. #48 Anonymous.. learn to read properly....
Mark ,   Lodz, Poland   (04.01.12)
....before you wantonly insult people. You are right about the freedom enjoyed by Israeli Arabs who choose to live in peace with us. Nonetheless, I think you owe Line from Denmark an apology!
72. #71 Thank you Mark from Poland
Line Singer ,   Aarhus, Denmark   (04.01.12)
73. Well, Sweden is NOT going to change
Shira   (04.02.12)
So what r you to do? Are you going to leave your country? Are you going to fight for its wonderful culture and identity or are you going to give up on it and let history take its course? a democracy needs to be able to fight for itself, even if its concidered "racist" or it just dies and ceases to exist, just like so many wonderful cultures and societies all through hostory... What are your options really?...
74. Thank you, Tobias.
Reuven   (04.02.12)
I appreciate your support and fairness. I think more and more Swedes will wake up and see the viciousness of radical Islam.
75. Israel needs good friends.
Luiz F Haddad ,   Niteroi, Brazil   (04.02.12)
Loyal friendships are much necessary to Israel. Awful antisemitism must be fought, into all the world, by your people, but never acting alone, like it has occurred. You must be sure that we, true Christians and true Democrats, are at your side. In my country, me and others integrate the entity "United for Israel". Nevertheless, some offensive comments about our faith, on confounding present times with past ones, harm the union. But they don't represent your majority. Go ahead together.
76. #35 jushua, pure unadulterated BS
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (04.02.12)
He is what happened to the "Palestinian's" you're wailing and moaning about,hey were fooled an coerced to leaving on their own accord, their leaders having promised them that the would return to looted Jewish Land & Property How many of your present day Moroocans are left after the vast Jewish emigration of the 50's & 60's? "
77. Josh - stop faking it
BEN JABO ,   ISR AEL   (04.02.12)
ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE -- The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953. "The Arab governments told us: Get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in." -- A refugee quoted in Al Difaa (Jordan) September 6, 1954 In listing the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948, Khaled al-Azm (Syrian Prime Minister) notes that "Since 1948, it is we who have demanded the return of the refugees, while it is we who made them leave. We brought disaster upon a million Arab refugees by inviting them and bringing pressure on them to leave. We have accustomed them to begging...we have participated in lowering their morale and social level...Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson and throwing stones upon men, women and children...all this in the service of political purposes..." -- Khaled el-Azm, Syrian prime minister after the 1948 War, in his 1972 memoirs, published in 1973. "The Arab states succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity. They did not recognize them as a unified people until the states of the world did so, and this is regrettable." -- Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), from the official journal of the PLO, Falastin el-Thawra ("What We Have Learned and What We Should Do"), Beirut, March 1976. "Abu Mazen Charges that the Arab States Are the Cause of the Palestinian Refugee Problem" (Wall Street Journal; June 5, 2003): Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) wrote an article in March 1976 in Falastin al-Thawra, the official journal of the PLO in Beirut: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny, but instead they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe." SOURCE: BIG LIES: Demolishing The Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel, by David Meir-Levi Mahmud Al-Habbash, a regular writer in the official Palestinian Authority paper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
78. #63 noor
solomon ,   bklyn   (04.02.12)
I realize you think it is not a lie; feelings in the heart usually are not a lie. But it does not agree with reality, with history, with facts. I understand that reality would hurt too much. But it is there, and pays no attention to anyone's heart.
79. To: No. 65
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.02.12)
You said nothing of the sort. Stop lying and own up to the contents of your posts. Or do you lack the courage to stand for your convictions? No Jew would defile himself by marrying you. Try a new story, honey; this dog doesn't hunt.
80. Sarah B #60
Jackie ,   Florida   (04.02.12)
I just wanted to tell you, Sarah, that I often read talkbacks with which I find myself in complete agreement and often have considered beforehand writing something similar. And whenever I push an approval for such talkbacks, I often find your signature at the bottom. We agree on so many points!@ I was born in 1929 here in the US, but had family members killed in Europe during the Nazis' regime, I was at the UN when partition was voted on -- assisting my uncle who was a radio news reporter at the time. I experienced the antisemitism of the US in the 30s and early 40s, which only started to cease when Israel came into being. Thank you for your posts.
81. An important message from a courageous young man
Ian ,   Raanana Israel   (04.02.12)
82. to78
noor   (04.02.12)
it is not a secret my attention mainly is to my heart has no lie but your history or facts are full of lies can not hurt me but the lie of the heart may do
83. to 80
noor ,   jerusalem   (04.02.12)
so circumstances speak .. honestly i hardly accept it .. my mother used to say put yourselfe in place of her or him or them . realy i learned to be like any one in his age in his place in his state . it is more secure more safe more mercifull
84. To #79
Bertram ,   London, UK   (04.02.12)
Line Singer did not say Israel was racist, but that: "We should be horrified to see Israeli flags amidst the Danish Defence League, it's NOTHING to be proud about to be linked to these fanatic racists" . If you cannot see the difference you have a problem.
85. To #33. I dont think the readers will understand your post
Asher   (04.02.12)
"Judenrat", in Israel, is a derogatory name to self hating, leftist Jews. Just like during the Holocaust, there were some Jews who co-operated with the Nazis, making their job much, much easier (they were called "Judenrat" - the "Jewish council"). Nowadays, there are the leftist "liberal" Jews who spread hate and support anti-Israel movements. Many in Israel believe that they are behind the revival of antisemitism in Europe.
86. Dear Line, number 43
Ameridane ,   Aarhus, Denmark   (04.02.12)
It is not a question of " the enemy of my enemy is my friend" but the truth is that most Danish politicians are more that hostile to Israel. Take for example Villy Soendal, Frank aaen, ole Sohn, etc, all of them in the so called socialist goverment, which (had) has close ties to PLFP, Fatah and so on. As a matter of fact it is the party on the RIGHT, where Espesen of the DF party, Dansk Folkeparti that has an Israeli flag on his desk. No, the right in Denmark supports Israel, while the parties which "proclaim" human bonds are very pro terrorist movements (as long as they are far from Denmark.
87. #82 noor
solomon ,   bklyn   (04.02.12)
Read some history and not only the drivel you are fed by Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO. Many of us have read what you are fed and it is mostly fantasy.
88. Dear Ameridane #86
Line Singer ,   Aarhus, Denmark   (04.02.12)
You are of course right in everything you write. Unfortunately. In an (my) ideal world the left would support Israel. Then I wouldn't be in such a dilemma over who to vote for in our elections. I am a leftie by heart but I'll never be politically correct when it comes to Israel (in Denmark), hence my dilemma...
89. #28 Geert Wilders
Moragh   (06.09.12)
is the absolute top! Who can possible beat him???
90. deja vu
EISENFELD ,   ASHKELON   (06.10.12)
The only power of fascists is the weakeness of the people.The only courage they have is the cowardize of the others. Yes they can be and must be stoped now : look at history,don`t allow things to repeat again.
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