This report comes to us from The Local;
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has summoned the Israeli ambassador to explain reports that Israeli armed forces have boarded the "Freedom Flottila" ships heading to Gaza, killing at least ten people.
"We want a clarification over what has happened," Carl Bildt said to Sveriges Radio P1 over the reports that the ships belonging to the "Ship to Gaza" convoy, carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza strip, had been boarded by Israeli military forces.
"We know that there are Swedes on some of the ships and we want to know what has happened to them. There appears no reason to question media reports that a Turkish vessel has been boarded, that a fire fight occurred and that people have been killed," Bildt said.
The flotilla of ships, carrying a reported 600 people from around 50 different nations, left Cyprus on Sunday evening and was due to arrive close to Gaza on Monday morning. The convoy, loaded with 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, was intercepted in international waters, 65 kilometres off the Gaza coast, by Israeli warships and helicopters.
A live feed broadcast from a Turkish registered ship in the convoy shows Israeli forces boarding the ship and opening fire at around 8pm. Israeli military sources have confirmed ten dead, but other reports indicate that the death toll could be as high as nineteen, with dozens more injured.
Eleven Swedes are participating in the aid convoy including the author Henning Mankell, theologian Ulf Carmesund, Jewish artist and musician Dror Feiler and Swedish Green Party MP Mehmet Kaplan.
Swedish Green Party leader Peter Eriksson said that they had lost contact with Kaplan at around 5pm expressed concern over his fate in what he described as a completely legitimate and reasonable non-violent protest.
"If Israel has used extensive violence and killed people then it has to be seen as very serious. And it is important that there are strong reactions from both Sweden and other countries," Eriksson told news agency TT.
Mr. Bildt, Foreign Minister extraordinaire from Swedenland; allow me the privilege of clarifying that which you demand be clarified. We told you in quite clear words that your ships would be intercepted if you should press ahead with blockade running. We told you in clear terms that any violent actions taken by the "peace activists" would be met with any force necessary to ensure the safety of the soldiers throughout the duration of their unpleasant duty of thwarting your Hamas pandering program. In short, your ships decided to run the blockade, your animals decided to attack the soldiers as they boarded, and they were dealt with. I don't believe that you need any further clarification than this. In fact, you are quite the coward sir; it would appear that you are under a lot of pressure to denounce, demonize, and attack Israel for her actions by your Marxist horde and their muslim allies. Yet you still don't; that is truly an exceptional display of urinating in your trousers. Why don't you just come out and threaten us my Swedish friend; you need the votes as this is an election year is it not? Don't worry about us, we do a whole lot of worrying about Swedish action; if we can help you get elected, then by all means, let it out baby.
As for the remainder of Europeans on these boats; your Marxist pandering of Islam is really starting to show. As i have said to Mr. Bildt; stop feeling as if you have to tread carefully. We all know that the Holocaust was years ago and most of you are dying to fire up the Jew hatred thing again; so why not start now. It is not as if we are not aware of this. i would certainly appreciate it; and I am not sure but I believe that I speak for most of my compatriots in saying, why not just put the charade away and step up to the plate. You people have long since made your decision when it came to your voter cultivation programs. you have long since chosen the people to put your lot in with; they are waiting for your departure from the fence and frankly so are we. Understand my yellow friends, it makes no difference to us; you have already long since decided that those of us who embraced Europe or America as our homes really have no place there. Only instead of your little Aryan dreams, now you have gone a whole different direction; however, both have the result for us. I welcome your hate; I welcome your departure from the civilised world. When you put your lot in with animals, you indeed take on the traits of said animal. Therefore it makes things a whole lot easier when drawing battle lines. So, without further ado, i would like to express from myself, and all my fellow compatriots, a warm, deep and sincere {expletive deleted} you!!!; to the entire leftist horde of Europe. We will not back down from your feminine and cowardly pact. You have definitely crossed the last line.
To the governments of Europe; we have been with you all along. We have lived, died, and thrived under you and now you have decided to cast us out for this lot?? I hope that the islamic masses do for you what we have done for you for a thousand years. Though i must admit that I remain a bit skeptical on whether or not they can match our contributions to your society, economy, arts, sciences, and literature. But hey, you probably have preconceived notions about that as well so i figure there isn't much use bringing that up. However, for those governments, and future governments, who profess their clear, logical, and sane alliance to the state of Israel; you haven't much time to make your convictions known. It is simply not a luxury that you have or that we can afford you any longer. We must know where you stand and we must know now. From that time on there is no turning back. As for those citizens in Europe, whom we count as friends and allies; please say a kind word to G-d for us in these dark days. G-d knows that it is friends, brotherhood, and bonds of blood and fellowship that matter most in the darkest of days. With that I thank all those Europeans who still stand for righteousness and sanity; your reason is drowning in the seas of lunacy but you must hold fast.
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