This is a terrible way to
end what has been one of the worst years in personal memory.
During the past half-week,
not only have there been more terrible deaths, but two individuals, who I am
sure wrote and spoke quite independently, tried to explain why so many liberal
western governments seem over-keen on allowing Islamist barbarians to jump through
their borders and terrorise their citizens.
Remarkably, both suggested
it is because of the guilt felt about how their Jewish populations were treated
when the Nazis were in power. Such wickedness ‘must not happen again’.
Yet it is recurring even as
I write and as streams of new immigrants - who hate Jews – anyone who is not
exactly like them - continue to flood western democracies, the old cycle of hatred
that never really ended begins to turn again. But this time its direction is
counter-clockwise.
Indeed, as I began attempting
to solve this fiendish enigma, Britain’s top
universities had just been marked as “no go zones’ for Jewish students.
Baroness Ruth Deech, a former senior proctor at
Oxford University and Principal of St Anne's College, reportedly stated that
U.K. universities are frightened of losing potential Arab sponsors.
If accurate, her remarks
will not surprise Israel advocate Ilya Meyer who claims – partly for the same reason
– that there are now 52 ‘no go zones’ in various parts of Sweden where
ambulances making house calls must be accompanied by two police cars.
The first, he told an ESRA Karmiel
audience on Thursday last week, protects the ambulance while the second guards the
occupants of the first car!
But India-born Mayer,
himself an immigrant to Sweden via the U.K., maintains that the situation there
caused by open borders, societal segregation and terrorism is worse even than
that in many large European countries. Because Sweden’s native population (currently 9,851,852) is
so small, the ever-increasing influx of newcomers is difficult to absorb, he
said.
First, the left-wing
government’s pro-Muslim policies mean tax revenue is devoted to maintaining new
immigrants to the detriment of the native-born sick and elderly.
Next, entire apartment
blocks have been seized by the authorities to house the vast numbers of mainly
middle-eastern male Muslim migrants claiming political and economic asylum, or
entry simply for family reunion. Moreover, most are young, angry, virile adults
who form gangs and terrorise neighbouring communities before attacking each
other.
Meyer, who now splits his
time between Sweden and Israel, discussed the worsening situation while promoting
From the Shadows, ** the
final volume of The Hart Trilogy, a fictional
series that depicts the real-life threat posed by Islamism to the entire world.
Often, said Mayer, his story-lines are overtaken by real events and several
times he has been forced to rewrite more than a third of his manuscripts.
Does he envisage the Swedish
situation evolving into full-scale civil unrest?
Presently, he suggests only a
collision at the ballot box, where the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats
(Swedish Democrats) would fight against the policies of the
current pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel left-wing
government.
What is behind this
seemingly bizarre doctrine? Arab petro-dollars again? More naked antisemitism? Some Swedish Israel
supporters insist that Sweden has been pro-Palestinian since the premiership
of Olof Palme.
But Mayer, like free-lance columnist, Abigail R. Esman, writing for The Project on
Terrorism believes – as I outlined above - that it is due to guilt about
and repentance for atrocities committed while the Nazis were in power.
“Opening
the doors to religious minorities escaping war and autocracy is a form of
repentance. So, too, is a hands-off approach to religious figures
who preach violent or misogynistic doctrines that violate our own”, she said.
“Such approaches may ease
German consciences, but they too often go awry. What, after all, are jihadist
attacks like the one at the Breitscheidplatz Market if not ‘crimes against
humanity’? Germany is right not to forget its past. But in trying to set it
right, the country has just gone tragically very wrong”.
.So when disentangled, the dismal
scenario appears thus: The horrific Jewish experience of the twentieth century continues
to be both denied and exploited to succour Jews’ and the State of
Israel’s worst enemies in these, the opening years of the twenty-first.
How – where - will we be on
December 25 2116?
I guess I won't be around to find out!
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** All proceeds from the
sales of Ilya Meyer’s books benefit the Alyn
Paediatric Centre in Jerusalem.
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© Natalie Wood (25 December 2016)
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