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Barack Hussein Obama, regarded by many (perhaps unfairly, perhaps justifiably) as the US president with the most hostile attitude to Israel in American history, is soon going to visit Israel.
It will be his first visit to Israel as president, despite his campaign promises prior to his first term as president.
He has thus far visited a number of Islamist states in his capacity as president, and during his stewardship in the White House the Arab and Islamic worlds have been set ablaze, seeing the ascendancy of Islamic radicalisation, extremism and open hostility to liberal, democratic values in much of the region.
These changes came about through a remarkable – some might say schizophrenic – combination of active military interference in the internal affairs of some Arab/Islamic states and steadfast refusal to engage even in verbal fencing with other Arab/Islamic states.
What were the thoughts behind Obama’s sudden about-turn, his sudden desire to visit the Jewish state’s united, undivided and everlasting capital city Jerusalem? The US administration, like most others, persists in regarding Israel’s capital as Tel Aviv. Which of course is fine, bearing in mind that the capital of the United States is New York, and the capital of France is Toulouse, and the capital of Britain is Liverpool…
The mad-dog regime of North Korea detonates an underground nuclear device in direct contravention of global opinion – while extorting food aid from the nations of the world. Yawn from the UN and EU.
The brutal regime of Assad has breached the 100,000 mark in the number of Syrian citizens murdered by the Syrian government, and a million Syrians are now refugees. Yawn from the UN and EU.
The murderous regime of the Iranian ayatollahs routinely hangs pickpockets, thieves, gays and political opponents from construction cranes in Tehran city centre. Yawn from the UN and EU.
The racist government of Lebanon continues to deny Palestinian Arabs citizenship or even the right to own property or engage in certain professions (now why do these draconian measures sound so very familiar from, let’s say Nazi-era Germany?). Yawn from the UN and EU.
The Moslem Brotherhood regime of Egypt drowns (yes, drowns) Gaza Arabs in underground tunnels. Yawn from the UN and EU.
But Moshe from Jerusalem wants to extend his kitchen and put fresh wallpaper on his bedroom walls, and the entire world erupts into a frenzy of UN Security Council condemnations, EU boycott calls, Islamist denunciations of “colonialism” and Hamas accusations that the Zionist Imperialist Colonialist power is forcing the people of Gaza to buy high-quality goods at reasonable prices when there is always the option of buying poor-quality tat smuggled in at exorbitant prices from Egypt via Hamas tunnels.
… the Egyptian media report that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
…the Lebanese media report that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
… the Palestinian Authority media report that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
… Al Arabiya reports that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
… Al Jazeera opens – OPENS! – its evening broadcast with the headline news that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
… hell, even the EU (wonder of wonders!) media report that Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been officially identified as having carried out the bus bombing that killed Israeli civilians in Bulgaria last year.
… but Swedish state television SVT steadfastly refuses to publish the news on its teletext service.
After all, Swedes might feel a bit of sympathy for the civilian Israeli Jews who were murdered and, worse still, might feel some antipathy towards the Islamist Hezbollah movement that is sworn to the destruction of the Jewish state and the massacre of every Jew in the Holy Land.
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