Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Walström
[Ed. note – This announcement by Sweden, that it is raising its terror threat level, comes just two days after Israel grew infuriated over a comment made by Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström. Perhaps, though, that’s just a coincidence.
On the other hand, we might reasonably ask–is it possible Sweden may have genuine cause for concern, not only over ISIS, but possibly Israel as well?
Here is the comment from Walström that aroused such Jewish ire:
“Clearly we have a reason to be worried not only here in Sweden but around the world because there are so many who are being radicalized. Here again, you come back to situations like that in the Middle East where not least the Palestinians see that there isn’t any future (for them). (The Palestinians) either have to accept a desperate situation or resort to violence.”
Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon described the Swedish official’s remark as “appallingly impudent,” and since Monday, angry articles have appeared on a number of Israeli and pro-Israel websites, including here, here, here, here, here, here,here, and here. Clearly quite a few Zionist writers and bloggers are out for blood, so to speak.
“Sweden’s foreign minister Margot Wallström made an ugly mistake connecting the Paris attacks and the plight of the Palestinians,” says Haaretz. The paper’s contributing writer, Asher Schechter, goes on to comment, “Margot Wallström caused quite a bit of outrage in Israel this week,” but he also makes a rather pertinent point in the process: that a presumed link between ISIS terror and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was made initially not by Wallström but by none other than the Israeli right–the same aggrieved souls who are now raising such holy hell over the Swedish foreign minister’s comments. ]
Sweden’s security chief has raised the country’s terror threat level to four on a scale of five, citing “concrete information.” An investigation has been launched regarding the “preparation of terrorist offenses.”
“One of the reasons for the increase is that the security service has received concrete information and concluded that we must act within the framework of our counter-terror work,” Sweden’s Security Police (SAPO) said in a statement.
“One of the reasons for the increase is that the security service has received concrete information and concluded that we must act within the framework of our counter-terror work,” Sweden’s Security Police (SAPO) said in a statement.
“The strategic threat assessment is based partly on what is known in the present, and on possible future developments…” the statement continues, noting that the threat level is “assessed continuously” and “may change.”
It goes on to state that the chief prosecutor at the National Security Service has launched a preliminary investigation regarding “preparation for terrorist offenses.”
The decision to raise the terror threat level was based on data from the National Center for Terrorist Threat Assessment. The center is responsible for producing threat assessments for Sweden and Swedish interests abroad.
The statement concluded by noting that Sweden has a large number of people returning to the country after having participated in combat in Syria and Iraq.
The raised terror threat level comes after Sweden – which has received the most refugees per capita in the EU –introduced temporary border controls to halt the influx of refugees and to screen those trying to enter the country illegally.
Sweden’s migration minister warned refugees earlier this month that they would be deported back to Germany or Denmark if they did not find their own accommodation.
“Those who come here may be met by the message that we can’t arrange housing for them,” Migration Minister Morgan Johansson told reporters. “Either you’ll have to arrange it yourself, or you have to go back to Germany or Denmark again.”
Fierce debate has been sparked surrounding the refugee crisis, after it was reported that one of the men responsible for the Paris attacks was believed to have entered Europe as a refugee via Greece, using a fake Syrian passport which was found at the scene of the carnage.
Another couple of things worth mentioning. The attacks in Paris came just two days after the EU adopted new guidelines requiring labeling on certain products produced in Israeli settlements–an act which the New York Times referred to as “a stinging rebuke to Israel.”
And that seems precisely how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took it.Netanyahu said the EU “should be ashamed of itself,” and accused it of a “hypocritical and double standard.”
Incidentally, one of the first countries to get behind the labeling requirement was Sweden–going all the way back to the year 2006.
After I posted an article yesterday on Wallström’s remarks, one of our readers, Greg Bacon, posted the following comment:
Maybe the Swedes still remember what Israel did to their diplomat and peace negotiator, Folke Bernadotte in 1948 in Jerusalem, mainly because the Israelis were horrified at the peace proposalsBut the Israeli police, along with the military police and security services did investigate but failed to find out who was in on the assassination.
Seems like I’ve heard that line before???
To Greg’s comment I posted the following reply:
Folke Bernadotte and maybe Olof Palme as well…“Olof Palme was a great humanitarian but he was also a major thereat to Israel’s political standing in Europe. It has often been speculated but never proven that his assailant had links to Mossad. The acrimony toward him by the Israeli government had reached a very high pitch at the time of his death and since his death EU Social Democrats have been curiously acquiescent to israeli designs,as President Carter pointed out a few months ago.”The assassination took place in 1986 and remains unsolved. This isn’t the first time Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, has angered the Israelis. Last year Sweden became one of the first, if not the first, EU states to recognize Palestine. You can see Wallstrom in the video below:
The timing of the terror alert in Sweden may, as I said, be just a coincidence. But Sweden–whether by recognizing Palestinian statehood, advocating the labeling of settlement products, or simply opposing an illegal occupation and endeavoring to uphold international law–clearly has been a thorn in Israel’s side for some time now.
Furthermore, the Jewish state is not exactly a novice when it comes to the carrying out of false flag attacks.
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