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Related: About this forumSwedish PM: Stabbing attacks in Israel not terrorism
What a scumbag. It's not terror, because Jews have it coming to them. Either that, or Jews don't count. Fucking POS.
Later in the day, Lofven contacted TT again to clarify his message, fearing what he called a misunderstanding. I meant that it was unclear if the knife attacks are organized by a group classified as a terrorist organization, Lofven told the agency. Nonetheless, the attacks themselves do constitute terror.
Ties between Israel and Sweden have soured in recent weeks following a series of comments by Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom criticizing Israels treatment of Palestinians and suggesting a link between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the terrorist attacks in Paris last month, claimed by the Islamic State. Last week, Wallstrom said that Israel was conducting extrajudicial executions of Palestinian stabbers, calling the Israeli response to the terrorist attacks disproportionate.
Israel has suffered near-daily stabbing attacks by Palestinians in recent months, part of an ongoing wave of violence. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Lofven on Sunday to complain about Wallstroms comments and warn his Swedish counterpart against applying double standards to terror attacks in Israel and other countries. Netanyahu slammed Wallstroms comments in a Likud faction meeting on Monday. There isnt one moral standard for Israel and one for the rest of the world, Netanyahu said. Wallstrom later said that her comments had been misunderstood.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-pm-stabbing-attacks-in-israel-not-terrorism/
King_David
(14,851 posts)WTF does this guy have delusions of grandeur?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The question whether a terrorist organization is responsible for them is irrelevant.
The stabbings aren't carried out for selfish reasons, like robbery or murder. They are carried out with the goal of political change.
And if somebody tries to promote his politics by using violence to instill fear, then the political protest has become terrorism.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)And blamed Paris on Israel. Hope he's going to like living under sharia law from being so open minded his fucking brains fall out. I agree with bibi on this point - there is a complete double standard between Israel and the rest of the world and I'll scream about it every single time I see it. It's nothing but complete bullshit and the rise of the far right in Europe is only the beginning of the push back on this nonsense.