Comments on: Poetic Justice: Israel sticks it to Sweden in Davis Cup

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:44:59 +0000

Gary I actually called the Swedish Embassy and complained about Sweden’s treatment of the Israeli tennis team. What did you do except commit the same sin you accuse me of against those you disagree with. I do some small thing everyday to combat discrimination anywhere I find it especially when friends do it like Israel.
The issue with neocons is that they brook no criticism and pretty soon you all will be all alone with your hate. [Projection alert.-ed.]

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:28:19 +0000

“I like the way glenn and the rest of you all dismiss whole categories of people because some of them displease you.”

Really, honest-to-God? Then you’ll love the way I dismiss all the antisemitic nitwits like yourself.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:48:40 +0000

You all are sound and fury signifying nothing. If you are so angry with Muslims and Swedes do what I do and call their embassy (202 467 2600) and complain. It works with Russians, Iranians and the Israelis (I like to call the Israelis about Jonathan Pollard).
I like the way glenn and the rest of you all dismiss whole categories of people because some of them displease you.

By: glenn

glenn — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:33 +0000

And more to the point, who cares about how a Muslim population treats the ethnic Swedes? Given the circumstances surrounding the tournament it’s not like there are any principles involved here. And we might get a few good doctors and engineers out of the deal.

By: Highlander

Highlander — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:32:21 +0000

Message to Jen Orbach – and what evidence have you ever seen that a Muslim majority will treat you any differently than a Muslim minority?

By: Wellspring

Wellspring — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:39:35 +0000

@Alex Bensky:

You’d think that the Swedes of all people would know all about danegeld. (Sweden collected its share of “danegeld”, too.)

Mostly I’m thinking that political functionaries everywhere, like Orbach, are worried mostly about today, a little bit about tomorrow, and not at all about next year.

By: Uncle Tarquinr

Uncle Tarquinr — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:30 +0000

Minister Orbach is a fool.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:11:50 +0000

Minister Orbach assumes that if Sweden is tolerant with Muslims then Muslims, when they become the majority, will be tolerant with Swedes.

I wonder what on earth, except perhaps naive optimism, causes him to think that.

By: Mike_K

Mike_K — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:53:03 +0000

The whole Swedish phenomenon is interesting. In the other European countries with large Muslim immigrant populations, it is my understanding that the Muslims are either living on the dole or are filling menial occupations like taxi driver or food shop employees. I know that Britain has many Muslim doctors and nurses but they are having trouble with these people refusing basic hygiene measures, such as scrubbing arms in surgery because the females refuse to expose their arms. I wonder how a modern economy survives with a poorly educated replacement population. I guess we will see in Sweden and the Netherlands as they seem to be the first to succumb.

By: Roger L Simon

Roger L Simon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:31:49 +0000

bluemnts, whatever the Israelis did, and I do not know if they did anything, it is nothing by comparison to Sweden’s shameful anti-Semitism.