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- Douglas Murray: The Great British
Foreign Office Fantasy
- Fjordman: Sweden's
Turbulent Election Year
by Douglas Murray • July 24, 2018
at 5:00 am
- The armies of ISIS
came right up to the villages on the Syrian side along the
borders of the Golan. There, they were able to bring that form
of peace-through-barbarism which the world has come to know
well. If ISIS had triumphed in the Syrian conflict rather than
suffering repeated set-backs, would the UK Foreign Office have
handed them the territory by way of reparational justice, or
victor's prize?
- The painful irony of
this situation should be clear to all observers. If the
Israelis did not lay claim to the Golan, there would have been
no means to have got the White Helmets and their families out
of Syria. Had Israel not made the Golan the peaceful and
thriving area it is, it would simply be another part of Syria
in which different sectarian groups were slaughtering other
sectarian groups.
- The British Foreign
Office will have to back out of its self-imposed corner
regarding the Golan at some point and accept the reality on
the ground. How much better it would be if it did so now in a
spirit of goodwill and reciprocity, rather than later on in a
spirit of inevitable and grudging defeat.
Pictured:
Family members of Syrian "White Helmets", rescued by
Israel, aboard a bus that transported them to Jordan, on July 22.
(Image source: IDF)
According to the British Foreign Office, the Golan
Heights are 'occupied'. They have been 'occupied' -- according to
the logic of the UK Foreign Office -- since 1967, when Israel took
the land from the invading forces of Syria. Ever since then, the
Israelis have had the benefit of this strategic position and the
Syrian regime has not. This fact, half a century on, still strikes
the British Foreign Office as regrettable, and a wrong to be
righted in due course.
by Fjordman • July 24, 2018 at
4:00 am
- Disaffection with
immigration has affected the two largest establishment
parties.
- "What you read
about Sweden on alternative news platforms is true. We are
facing problems more severe than ever before in our history,
where Swedes face a situation of being a minority within 20
years if nothing is done to stop the replacement of our
people...What makes the situation even more difficult is, of
course, the extreme political correctness that has haunted
Sweden for decades, but which is now finally breaking
up." -- Gustav Kasselstrand, co-founder and Chairman of
the Alternative for Sweden party.
- Kasselstrand and the
Alternative for Sweden argue that the policies of the Sweden
Democrats are no longer sufficient to deal with Sweden's
problems with violent crime and public gang shootings.
Sweden's
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is widely perceived as not being a
particularly strong leader. It caused concern among the Social
Democrats when Löfven was openly laughed at by the audience during
a TV debate in May 2018. Pictured: Löfven at a European Union
summit on December 14, 2017. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Sweden's general election on September 9 looks set
to become the most interesting the country has had in years.
Concerns over mass immigration and rampant crime are redefining the
political landscape. For the first time in more than a hundred
years, the Social Democrats may be dethroned as the country's
largest political party. By Swedish standards, this constitutes a
political earthquake.
Concerns in Europe over crime and mass immigration
have been changing the political atmosphere, from Italy to Germany.
Now, these developments may finally have caught up with Sweden as
well.
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