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Sep 4, 2017, 1:58 PM

Pyongyang challenges world community, Tehran watches with interest

I wonder how future generations will judge us for our passiveness. For eight (8) years we had in Obama a US president who not only shielded but actually rescued and aided rogue regimes such as Iran, North Korea, Hizbollah, Fatah...

Aug 2, 2016, 1:06 PM

French Muslim intellectuals appear to actively support anti-Semitism

An article in the Times of Israel reports that French Muslim intellectuals decry Islamic terrorism against French civilian victims -- but specifically exclude French Jewish civilian victims. THIS is what anti-Semitism is really all about: the everyday, daily exclusion of Jews...

Jun 9, 2016, 1:26 PM

Sweden appreciates terrorism in Tel Aviv

Yesterday there was a disgraceful racist attack on civilian Jews in Tel Aviv. The attack was carried out by Arabs from "Palestine". That racist attack has been harshly condemned by the leaders of the free world, who without hesitation called it...

Jun 7, 2016, 4:07 PM

The “Palestinian narrative”. Comedy or just inspired fiction?

"Palestinian" history is ancient. Very ancient. But its exact age varies depending on whichever one of the 100 or so "Palestinian" leaders you choose to believe (at last count there were at least three separate "Palestines" - centred around...

Apr 19, 2016, 12:20 PM

Sweden’s Green Party leader talks about “the 9/11 accident”

Sweden has a problem with institutional anti-Semitism and support for terrorism. Much - but by no means all - of it comes down to a political ideology that hides behind the title "Green Party". A party with an inordinately high...

Apr 18, 2016, 3:39 PM

Sweden’s Islamist Housing Minister Resigns — Finally!

The housing minister who compared Israel to Nazis has stepped down -- now it's the foreign minister's turn

Jan 28, 2016, 12:44 PM

Swedish government increasingly divorced from reality

The Swedish government is bizarrely divorced from reality. First it opens the country's doors to any and every economic migrant and asylum seeker who wants to enter Sweden from Muslim countries. Then it finds it has neither the financial nor the...

Dec 15, 2015, 4:14 PM

The EU elevates hypocrisy to international policy

The EU maintains that owing to what it terms Israel’s occupation of the Jewish provinces of Judea & Samaria, (also known as the West Bank of the River Jordan following Jordan’s illegal but highly successful occupation of this area...

Dec 10, 2015, 2:55 PM

Donald Trump is merely saying what most Muslim states already do

Hypocrisy is plumbing new depths. Think what you will about Donald Trump’s remarks that the US ought not to allow any more Muslims to enter the USA. Donald Trump has always courted controversy, and on this issue there are those who agree with...

Nov 22, 2015, 10:35 PM

Thinking outside the box on Arab terrorism

Getting the Arabs to stop their ongoing spate of killing requires a little lateral thinking. There's precious little one can do to deter a methodically nurtured culture of death. Such as the one cultivated by the Palestinian Authority and its racist President Mahmud Abbas...

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About Me

Ilya Meyer is former deputy chair of the West Sweden branch of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association. He blogs about Israel and Sweden’s relationship with Israel at the Times of Israel and at ilyameyer.com. He made his debut as a writer of political thrillers with The Hart Trilogy: "Bridges Going Nowhere" (2014), "The Threat Beneath" (2015) and "From The Shadows" (2016), where the action switches seamlessly between Samaria, Gaza, Israel and Sweden. The books are available from Amazon.com as ebooks and also in paperback. Work has started on a fourth book, "Picture Imperfect".