Mr Zeev Raphael is indignant because I devoted just one sentence to Sweden’s White Buses (Jerusalem Post, Uptime, 18 June 2004) of 60 years ago in a text dealing with entirely different issues of burning present-day actuality. He feels I “belittled” the operation by not focusing more on what was an entirely peripheral issue in […]
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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 […]