http://www.blog.standforisrael.org/articles/scandalous-conduct-in-scandinavia?sm=Blog&s_src=FB&s_subsrc=NFS1400XXEXXXIsraeli President Shimon Peres, as is normal for heads of state, is doing some goodwill traveling in the waning days of his presidency. Peres, who will turn 91 in August, is often at odds with the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and, despite the fact that the office he now holds is supposed to be apolitical, the politician in him sometimes can’t help it. We don’t mean this as a criticism of the great Israeli statesman – after decades as Minister of Transportation, Finance, Defense, and Foreign Affairs, and three stints as Prime Minister, anybody expecting President Peres to be a wilting flower on the issues of the day hasn’t paid much attention to the previous 50 years of Israeli history.
Even so, Peres is finding that it doesn’t matter what you think or say if you’re an Israeli political leader. As Peres travels to Scandinavia, he has been met with a shoulder as cold as a Nordic winter. Protests in Norway. His plane being denied permission to enter Swedish airspace.
Sweden, of course, has welcomed visits in the recent past from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao, whose country carries on a brutal occupation of Tibet (which, under international law, is actually an occupation, as opposed to the disputed status of the West Bank). Vladimir Putin has also been a recent visitor to Stockholm. In 2011, when even European countries joined Israel and the United States in a walk-out of the odious remarks at the U.N. by then-President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sweden and Norway kept their seats.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Davis Cup tennis team had to play the Swedish team in an empty stadium in Malmo, due, Sweden claimed, to “security concerns.” And the plane carrying the President of Israel – a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less, who largely agrees with many European governments on the issue of settlement expansion – cannot be allowed to pollute the pristine air of Sweden.
Sweden has banned kosher slaughter of animals and both Norway and Sweden have seriously considered banning ritual circumcision.
While, sadly, we’ve come to expect this kind of behavior from the Scandinavian countries, the fact that they’re willing to treat even President Peres this way proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is the Israeliness – not the political positions taken by a given Israeli – that is toxic to anti-Israel Westerners and their Arab and Muslim instigators.
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