Many thanks to DarLink for the translation of the Hebrew portions, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. Note: the original recording posted on the Israeli TV network’s website is defective, and is the cause of all the video and audio problems in this clip. The translator has made a heroic effort to recover the garbled portions of the Hebrew voice-over, but there are some unavoidable gaps.
Also, unless Blogger has fixed its “feature”, you will have to click the “read more” link before you can watch the video, at least on Internet Explorer:
A full transcript is below the jump.
Transcript:
| 00:01 | We continue today with a series | |
| 00:03 | of special articles about the rise | |
| 00:04 | of extreme right-wing parties | |
| 00:05 | in Europe. | |
| 00:06 | Tonight it is Sweden. | |
| 00:07 | The right-wing party Sweden Democrats | |
| 00:09 | dramatically joined the Swedish parliament | |
| 00:11 | after elections last month, | |
| 00:13 | while supporting an anti-Islam | |
| 00:15 | and pro-Israel agenda. | |
| 00:16 | But it appears that they have a pro-Nazi past | |
| 00:18 | and once even proposed a law | |
| 00:20 | against eating kosher meat. | |
| 00:22 | Amit Segal, our correspondent in Europe, | |
| 00:24 | met with party representatives in Sweden. | |
| 00:27 | Meet Sweden. | |
| 00:29 | “Tolerance” is the state’s religion. | |
| 00:31 | “Politically correct” is the official language. | |
| 00:33 | And now meet the Sweden Democrats party… | |
| 00:51 | 20 new members joined the parliament, | |
| 00:55 | with their leader barely over 30. | |
| 00:58 | When one hears the muezzin call for prayer | |
| 01:00 | on Friday in the heart of Stockholm, | |
| 01:02 | one can understand the meteoric success | |
| 01:04 | of the party, which carries the flag of | |
| 01:06 | struggle against Muslim immigration. | |
| 01:14 | This is Kent Ekeroth, just 29 years old, | |
| 01:16 | and already a member of parliament. | |
| 01:30 | When Sweden is the head of | |
| 01:32 | the rotational EU presidency, | |
| 01:34 | the Israeli government is on standby: | |
| 01:35 | This is a country that claimed that | |
| 01:37 | Israel’s soldiers harvested Palestinians’ organs. | |
| 01:39 | Here is Malmö — the city with the highest | |
| 01:41 | Muslim population on the European continent. | |
| 01:46 | What you see is the reason for the dizzying success | |
| 01:48 | of the Sweden Democrats. | |
| 01:49 | This is also why they are the only party in | |
| 01:51 | Europe to press Israel’s government to | |
| 01:52 | continue building in the West Bank. | |
| 02:36 | When the president of Sweden’s Jewish community | |
| 02:38 | thinks this way, it is a sign that | |
| 02:40 | the story behind it should be interesting. | |
| 03:00 | The party’s chairman was forced to request | |
| 03:02 | party members in the previous decade | |
| 03:05 | not to not bring SS symbols to the meetings anymore. | |
| 03:19 | This is not certain. One of the most prominent | |
| 03:21 | donors to the party in the previous decade | |
| 03:23 | was French racist Jean-Marie Le Pen. | |
| 03:25 | By the way, even if tomorrow | |
| 03:27 | 100,000 bearded Jews were to decide to immigrate | |
| 03:31 | to Stockholm, they will not be met with | |
| 03:32 | open arms. The Sweden Democrats propose | |
| 03:35 | to forbid Kosher and Halal meat, | |
| 03:37 | and even to make circumcision illegal. | |
| 04:01 | Yes. Some of the texts of the Sweden Democrats | |
| 04:03 | appear to be taken from Israel’s | |
| 04:05 | foreign affairs ministry and maybe that’s why | |
| 04:07 | it is worth listening to Swedish liberal | |
| 04:11 | member of parliament [???] who says: “Israelis | |
| 04:13 | should be careful. You are being used | |
| 04:17 | to whitewash the stains of this party’s voice, | |
| 04:19 | to cleanse their past, | |
| 04:21 | to hide their Nazi past and to | |
| 04:23 | cover up their xenophobic present.” | |
| 04:25 | But it is even more complicated | |
| 04:27 | than that, because Ekeroth is a Jew, too. | |
| 04:29 | And this, if you please, | |
| 04:31 | is the heart of the story. | |
| 04:33 | Israel... | |
| 04:35 | strange coalition.... | |
| 04:37 | Ultraliberal left and Radical Islam... | |
| 04:43 | Creates strange coalition with parties... | |
| 04:46 | ... | |
| 04:48 | In the end it is a dilemma between | |
| 04:50 | two ancient truths: | |
| 04:52 | “Is my enemy’s enemy my friend?” | |
| 04:54 | Or “With friends like these who need enemies?” |
6 comments:
Well , as you can see ,israeli TV is dominated by left-leaning journalists like most MSM . The guy who interwiews Ekeroth is not even one of the worst .
They are fighting a loosing batle.
Before or later mainstream israel wil stop living in the past and will realise that the new right in europe is its natural ally .
This would already have happened exept for the corrupting influence of the MSM.
Is there anything in this document that indicates Israelis are at all interested in what's good for... the Swedes? What about a commitment to plain old-fashioned goodness? You know, the same commitment that motivated our forefathers to fight the Nazis in the first place?
Israelis need to decide here what they're after: what is good, true, and right, or just what they think is in their own interests. The two are not, after all, always synonymous. But the honest man is bound to pursue what is right, regardless of the cost to himself.
The man who refuses to view the world through any other lens but his own narrow interests is a man lost to truth and reason and beholden to fear and superstition.
"old-fashioned goodness" "own narrow interests"
Well, as it's an Israeli news show, I expect that the images and ideas involved signify a possibly more immediate perils to the viewers than to the Swedes.
Left/EU/Islamist movement = peril (they love Israel's foes who seek its death).
Nazi resurgence (however unlikely) = fears of peril. (I guess the fear lives).
So yes, I think Israel (and a large numbers of Jews elsewhere) are "beholden to fear." And I agree this is a grievously narrowing specter. I sense you conflating mere "interests" with "will this empower the throngs seeking our annihilation, perhaps enabling their fulfillment of it in the next 5 or so years." Such a nightmare. And yep, much thoughtfulness is lost in that climate.
But this is a basically positive piece on the SD, amidst truly hostile world media coverage.
Are they roused inwardly to support the Swedes facing their unfolding Islamic threat, as any person ought to be? I'd think so, but I don't know.
As an Israeli who reads this blog regularly, I can say that it is a matter of knowledge; we do not know enough about the SD yet to be certain either way; I, for one would rather wait and see what they actually do, now that they are elected, before making a decision.
Josiah: As an Israeli who reads this blog regularly…
It is with heartfelt support of Israel's refusal to accept Muslim domination that I ask if you might consider becoming a regular contributor to Gates of Vienna.
I make this request solely in a personal capacity but any and all direct input from Israel is of inestimable value with respect to adjudging what goes on there. Especially regarding the routine dose of horseradish many of us get from global media outlets about the Arab - Israeli conflict (i.e., relentless terrorism).
Any cooperation upon your part would be deeply appreciated. Thanking you in advance.
Josiah,
You won't learn the truth from the commies who run the media. In the 1990s, the antisemites were expelled from the Sweden Democrats. They are now in the National Democrats or the Party of Swedes. And you will notice that the interviewer forgot to mention that Kent Ekeroth is Jewish and that his brother Ted (also an Sweden Democrats member) won the Herzl Award in 2006.
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