Targeting Sweden's ruling coalition
Writing at YNet, Michael Fenebock says that it's time to stop 'explaining' our positions to Europe and time to start fighting with our enemies there. Starting with the nefarious government of Sweden. The Swedes hold a general election on September 19, 2010. All 349 seats in the Riksdag are up. [Prime Minister Fredrick] Reinfeldt’s tenuous coalition government is in deep political trouble. Recent polling has Reinfeldt’s government at 44% and the opposition at 50%. His party risks defeat in September.Read the whole thing. I like this idea, although I'm a bit short on the specifics. If anyone (especially in Sweden) wants to get involved, I just happen to have Michael's (and his wife Daphne's) email addresses, and if you drop me a note, I will pass it on to them.
Facing defeat and a loss of power and needing to neutralize threats from Sweden’s left wing, Reinfeldt and [Foreign Minister Carl] Bildt [pictured. CiJ] made a calculated political decision to use Sweden’s EU Chairmanship to improve their poll numbers, neutralize the Left, and buttress their political standing in Sweden.
Politics is a copycat business. If Reinfeldt’s “hammer the Jews” gambit succeeds every politician in Europe will copy the formula. If we do not fight back, if we do not cause Reinfeldt and Bildt to suffer political consequences in Sweden, it will have a bandwagon effect all across European politics.
All Europe is watching and learning. The stakes are nothing less than Jerusalem.
We can choose to fight. We can decide to push back. We have the means, the experience and skill to cause these guys political pain in Sweden. The question is do we have the will?
Do we have the guts to take them on, to make Reinfeldt, his political party and his pompous, anti-Israel Foreign Minister Carl Bildt pay a political price? That’s the question and the September 19 elections in Sweden are the test case.
Clearly hasbara alone is not working.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:07 AM
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Carl, do you have a list of Swedish NGOs we could support that would help us out in the campaign? You know, what the Swedes do to us?
Hasbara is a good policy for dealing with people who are neutral or uninformed about Israel. But when you are dealing with people who hate Israel and Jews, "explaining" is probably not going to change their minds.
Fenenbock is absolutely right. It's high time Israel stopped the hasbara lameness and whining and moaning in the face of terrible, existence-threatening hatred and learned to be pro-active.
Yisrael has a good approach. You have to go from the inside. Swedish NGOs are a good start. Catching pro-Israel politicians, diplomats and public figures would be very helpful.
Get to the public. Swedes will be more sympathetic to Israel, since they are battling Islamofascism in their streets every day. (They can't even breathe in Malmo anymore without bringing on some Muslim backlash.)
Yisrael Medad is right. You're not going to change the minds of people who hate Jews and don't like Israel much but its still possible to influence European politics through the same approach the Europeans have used in Israel for years: have the Israeli government fund pro-Israel NGOs throughout Europe. Right now the voice European politicians pay attention to is Arab oil and the voice of the Continent's numerous Muslim communities. Its time to turn the tables.
It is time for world Jewry to publicize Swededns complicity with the Nazis, Just like we publicized the Swiss' colaboration, lets sublicize the iron and ball-bearings for Jewish gold
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