Israel slams Sweden for invoking Palestinian plight while discussing Paris attacks

[shira]

Well, blaming the Jews for Paris didn't take long - did it?

Israel on Monday excoriated the Swedish foreign minister for linking Palestinian frustration to Friday’s attacks on Paris by Islamic State.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem called Margot Wallström’s comments “shockingly brazen,” and said it had summoned the Swedish ambassador for a dressing-down.

“To counteract the radicalization we must go back to the situation such as the one in the Middle East in which not at the least the Palestinians sees that there is no future; we must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence,” Wallström told Swedish television.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-slams-sweden-for-invoking-palestinian-plight-in-paris-attacks/

[Little Tich]

1. False news.

I watched the interview with Margot Wallström, and she mentioned the Palestinians in the context of radicalization, not Paris.

Big facepalm...

[shira]

3. Pathetic response. Not as bad as defending Abbas' Holocaust denial....

...and incitement to murdering Jews, but still pathetic.

[Little Tich]

4. I read and speak Swedish very well.

The accusation is baseless, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry has chosen the wrong issue to argue.

[shira]

5. The Paris attacks have zero to do with the Palestinians.

Bringing Israel into the discussion as a source for terrorist frustrations is beneath contempt.

[Little Tich]

6. The usual reaction in Sweden to the bizarre antics of the Israeli Embassy is one of perplexed

consternation.

This time is no different. The issue was radicalization, and Sweden considers the radicalization of Palestinians in the occupied territories a problem. I'm not really sure what your argument is - are you arguing that there's no radicalization going on among Palestinians?

[shira]

7. She very clearly pointed to Palestinian frustration & desperation leading to terror.....

That's an outright lie.

And Israelis do not deserve terror due to the so-called desperation of Hamas psychotics who want all Jews dead.

[Little Tich]

8. Some people, including me, will disagree with you.

The current violence in Israel is the direct result of years of mismanagement of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.

[grossproffit]

10. smh

[shira]

11. Point me to other victims in the world, so oppressed & desperate....

....that they send teenagers out to stab little kids & old ladies & later praise those actions. Show me "progressives" who understand such heinous acts are the natural result of "mismanagement".

Anywhere else in the world. Who are these other victims?

They don't exist.

The problem is seeing the Mufti from 80 years ago as a victim, just as Hamas are victims, or Arafat, Abbas.... They're not victims. They'd all kill me and my family & not think twice about it.

[Little Tich]

12. Do you think the occupation is completely unrelated to the current violence?

What other factors would have caused this situation?

[shira]

13. Yes, I do. Absolutely. The stabbers say it's about al-Aqsa, not the occupation....

What do you think the reason was for attacks on Jews before 1967?

How about a real answer to that? No evasions.

[shira]

14. You disagree. Okay, so what leads a desperate, frustrated person....

....anywhere else on the planet to go out and find random children and elderly people to murder? Worse, their leadership (both PA and Hamas) praises these vile acts, thus encouraging even more.

The only people who do that are psychopaths, not good people who "have no other choice".

That this even needs to be explained is mind boggling.

[leftynyc]

2. Hardly the first to make

that connection, wont be the last. Pathetically predictable - for the far left.

[grossproffit]

9. Sweden just raised their terror level to 4 on a scale of 5.

I hope they have those IKEA assembly instructions handy.