Al Hamatzav

Dear God,
On behalf of a brown and generally unseason-like Sweden, I would like to say the following:
What the hell?

For our non-Swedish readers, I’d like to introduce to you Aftonbladet, a leftist tabloid and one of the largest newspapers in Sweden (circulation of ~450,000 issues and 1,4 million readers). Both its editorial staff and columnists are infamous for anti-Israeli (which only in the slightest sense translates into pro-Palestinian) bias, regularly publishing columns by Orientophiles […]

A commentator asked me in a previous post why I didn’t consider Fatah a democratic party. In writing my reply I realized that it was getting rather long, so I decided to post it as a short essay instead.
I’m very sorry to see Hamas in power, which anyone who has bothered to read their covenant […]

Jag är mållös, i sina avgående dagar så uttalar sig FNs generalsekreterare Kofi Annan med lite vett. Jag kan inte annat än citera, från Haaretz:
“The two-state solution - Israel and Palestine - must respect the rights of the Palestinian refugees, but only within the context of preserving the character of states in the region.”
“Some may […]

Cordelia Edvardson kommenterar i SvD mellanösternläget, nämner bland annat att:
“Israel behåller sitt strupgrepp över ett av världens mest tätbefolkade områden och dess cirka en och en halv miljon palestinier.”
Låt oss då konstatera att befolkningstätheten i Gaza är 3,823 människor/km²
Men är Gaza verkligen just “ett av världens mest tätbefolkade områden”? Gaza är i princip en stad […]