Think about this: Within 24 hours of the catastrophe in SE Asia, Israeli aid was on its way. This has been reported and praised throughout the world – but the story has scarcely made it into the mainstream Swedish media. Lottie Knutson, spokeswoman for Swedish travel agency Fritidsresor, has done a fantastic job in the […]
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15-year-old Swedish girl dying in Gaza
15-year-old Swede Miriam Nowajha will soon slip into a coma. Miriam, who together with her four siblings aged 6-16 was kidnapped and has been incarcerated in Gaza since June, suffers from Type 1 diabetes and is about to die. Miriam has no more facilities for testing her blood-sugar level. Without knowing her blood-sugar level, she […]
Swedish children for sale in Gaza
The welfare – perhaps even the lives – of 5 Swedish children is being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Swedish mother Elizabeth Krantz’s five children were kidnapped from Sweden back in June 2004 by her estranged Palestinian husband Ismail Nowajah. The children – Adam, Amina, Zakarias, Miriam and Sara – range in age […]
The Swedish recipe: all children are equal, unless they are Israelis
Swedish Foreign Minister Ms Laila Freivalds will shortly be visiting Ramallah to enlist Yasser Arafat’s help in ending the anguish of a Swedish mother whose five children were kidnapped by her estranged Palestinian husband and are being held hostage in Gaza under armed guard. Ms Freivalds is to be commended for playing such a personal […]
One law for Israelis and Jews, another for Palestinians and Muslims
Swedish Foreign Minister Ms Laila Freivalds will soon be making a personal visit to Ramallah. There she will enlist Yasser Arafat’s help in bringing to an end the anguish of a Swedish mother, Elisabeth Krantz, whose five children have been kidnapped by their Palestinian father and held hostage in Gaza. Ms Freivalds is to be […]
Whither the White Buses?
By fomenting anti-Semitism, a Swedish leader shames her brave forebears. Sixty years ago, Sweden made headlines sending its White Buses to bring scores of Jewish Holocaust survivors out of the terrifying hell of European anti-Semitism to a safe haven in Sweden. Today if Swedes were to make news, it would be over gaps in logic […]
Is the Swedish Foreign Minister out of touch with reality?
60 years ago, Sweden made the headlines by sending its White Buses to bring scores of Jewish Holocaust survivors out of the terrifying hell of European anti-Semitism to a safe haven in Sweden. Today Swedes are hitting the headlines with gaps in logic and empathy large enough to drive a bus through – while Swedish […]