(h/t Avi Eisenberg)
The Swedish police were caught flatfooted trying to explain to Swedish high school students why the Palestinian flag is listed on a page of terrorist flags in their resource file on terrorism. This is after one high school devoted some time to educating the students on the subject of terror, after several Swedish teens ran off to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. The hope was to prevent an epidemic of students joining in on the beheading fun in search of excitement.
The high school enlisted the help of the police, because essentially the school was teaching a course that had never been taught before–a course on terror. It’s a good, no GREAT idea. But lacking a textbook, the teachers needed resources. Hence, they turned to the police.
It’s scary the way children barely able to grow peach fuzz are running off to join ISIS. They have no idea what it is they’re getting into with this stuff and it’s important they be educated. Unfortunately, calling on the police for resources ended up causing a small ruckus in the local press, after they got wind of the Palestinian flag’s inclusion on a page of terrorist flags. And of course, the police were left to scramble to excuse reality: that the Palestinian flag is indeed, a symbol of terror.
Jonas Hysing, who heads up the tactical unit of the police in Örebro issued forth a carefully worded excuse in an interview with the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper:
“The exact same symbol is used by the Abu Nidal Organization. It’s not unheard of that organizations do this — Muhammad’s creed is on the ISIS flag, for example, and that has nothing to do with terrorism.”
Unfortunately, my dear Hysing, there’s a reason these entities share their symbols. It’s because yes, they share IDEOLOGIES.
While denying the connection between the flag on a page of terrorist flags and terror, on the one foot, Hysing continued to insisted that the documents in the police terror file are not inaccurate on the other foot, being that said documents are based on materials from the National Counterterrorism Center in the U.S. A creative form of “blame Bush.”
But of course, Niclas Persson, a Green Party politician still managed to use this situation to stump for the leftist narrative (“Palestinians” good, Israelis evil) and called the listing, “truly unfortunate.”
“It’s important that this is corrected. The big problem is that people connect Palestine’s fight for liberty with terrorism.”
I’m happy to say that the police said they won’t be correcting the listing, or at least said there isn’t a way for them to do so, but maybe they’ll add some explanatory (read: exculpatory) text.
So I read all that and I thought: they’re just spinning their wheels in their efforts to be politically correct in a Europe that is growing a HUGE Muslim population. The reason that flag is listed on that page is that the nonexistent state of Palestine is not fighting for liberty as Persson says, but to kill the Jews and steal their land. That is why every summer, they shoot missiles into our civilian population and why they throw rocks and firebombs at civilian Israeli cars and the Jerusalem light rail on a year round and daily basis.
It’s why they drive over us and kidnap our children. It’s why they stab us in the streets. It’s why they verbally abuse us when we attempt to ascend the Temple Mount. They did it before Israel was declared a state and they haven’t deviated from this path since.
It’s Terror. With a capital T. The “Palestinian” flag represents the aspiration of Israel’s terrorist enemy to kill and maim as many Jews as possible.
But to the good people of Sweden, as in so many other countries, terror against Jews doesn’t count. Just like so-called Palestinians killed at the hands of Syrians don’t get their fifteen minutes of Warhol fame. If an Israeli didn’t do it, who cares?
If the police and the schoolteachers and local politicians like Persson are going to call those associated with the Palestinian flag, “freedom fighters,” Swedish society is doomed. Perhaps some of these children will take this message from this unit on terrorism: ISIS bad, Hamas/Fatah terror against Jews GOOD. Instead of running to Iraq and Syria for fun with guns and knives, they’ll run to Gaza or Judea and Samaria and end up being used as human shields by Hamas.
Because judging by how things are going with this lesson on terror thus far, all these students are going to learn is that some pigs are more equal than others. Rephrased: Jews don’t count. Killing them is about getting liberty.
It’s the Final Solution using 21st century wording, because some things never change.
The catchphrase “Never forget” doesn’t stand a chance if we don’t call the world on falsehoods like these that allow its hatred to flower. Europe has quickly and purposefully forgotten, while yet we have living Holocaust survivors to bear testimony, what Europeans can do when no effort is made to tamp down their ineradicable Jew-hatred.
A good ending to this story would be for the teachers to explain all of this to the students: that there is no difference in killing Jews in Israel and killing journalists in Syria and Iraq. It’s all terror.
It’s Terror with a capital T.
