The anger at Israeli raid in sea and aftermath
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Nehal Adil
Nearly ten thousand people demonstrated in Stockholm after the Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla bringing aid to the suffering people of the peninsula. It is a big number in a thinly populated country where people in their cool temper hardly react. This was the largest demonstration since the murder of Olof Palme when the entire nation had burst into protest. Even Sweden's pro-Israeli foreign minister Carl Bildt, an aristocrat who was a critique of Palme's pro-Arab stance in the past, called the Israeli action not acceptable. Anyway he opposed any anti-Israeli sanction, though he is a strong supporter of sanction against Iran for its alleged nuclear activity.
Two Swedish intellectuals who were with the flotilla were missing probably dead. This infuriated the Swedish reaction. But later they were deported from Tel Aviv by air calming down the tempo.
Aftonbladet, the largest circulated daily, called for open trial of those who committed this war crime.
Sweden under Olof Palme was a powerful critic of war in Vietnam which was supported by the present foreign minister as a student leader, an exception in the then radical Europe.
Sweden's opposition the Red Green Alliance had earlier called withdrawal of American troops from all foreign soil and dismantling of all nuclear weapons. Though this is the declared foreign policy goal of President Obama and there was no protest from American side, Carl Bildt called it irresponsible.
But how responsible was the Israeli commando action in the high seas? This was an act of state terrorism and murder which policy of aggression nurture. Israel is granted immunity by the presence of American power broad, a protester said loudly.
Sweden's demography has changed as refugees from war-affected countries from Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan flocked here.
People feel these occupations should end and people be given the right to self-determination with withdrawal of foreign troops from all occupied territories.
— E-mail: dewan_nausher@yahoo.com
Nearly ten thousand people demonstrated in Stockholm after the Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla bringing aid to the suffering people of the peninsula. It is a big number in a thinly populated country where people in their cool temper hardly react. This was the largest demonstration since the murder of Olof Palme when the entire nation had burst into protest. Even Sweden's pro-Israeli foreign minister Carl Bildt, an aristocrat who was a critique of Palme's pro-Arab stance in the past, called the Israeli action not acceptable. Anyway he opposed any anti-Israeli sanction, though he is a strong supporter of sanction against Iran for its alleged nuclear activity.
Two Swedish intellectuals who were with the flotilla were missing probably dead. This infuriated the Swedish reaction. But later they were deported from Tel Aviv by air calming down the tempo.
Aftonbladet, the largest circulated daily, called for open trial of those who committed this war crime.
Sweden under Olof Palme was a powerful critic of war in Vietnam which was supported by the present foreign minister as a student leader, an exception in the then radical Europe.
Sweden's opposition the Red Green Alliance had earlier called withdrawal of American troops from all foreign soil and dismantling of all nuclear weapons. Though this is the declared foreign policy goal of President Obama and there was no protest from American side, Carl Bildt called it irresponsible.
But how responsible was the Israeli commando action in the high seas? This was an act of state terrorism and murder which policy of aggression nurture. Israel is granted immunity by the presence of American power broad, a protester said loudly.
Sweden's demography has changed as refugees from war-affected countries from Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan flocked here.
People feel these occupations should end and people be given the right to self-determination with withdrawal of foreign troops from all occupied territories.
— E-mail: dewan_nausher@yahoo.com