Samuel E. Rajeus Publishing – S.E.R.P

The Israeli military attack on Gaza aid ship on Monday with deadly outcomes is an evidence of how afraid Israel is to lose control of the situation in Middle east and particularly in Palestine. It is obvious that the military attack was unproportionate and very aggressive, though it was carefully planed, I assume.

However it is essential to look at the event from the angle the Israelis and the Israeli forces see it.

Israelis knew that if they should let the convoy to enter Israeli water and get to Gaza Strip it could be a beginning of a huge number of humanitarian ships heading to the Gaza Strip in order to deride the Israeli government and hoping to soften the blockade. Do not forget that the Israeli government and the Israeli people do not have any respect deep down for European governments looking back to the history of how the Israeli people have been treated and massacred of European countries. So getting aboard a number of Swedes on a ship and heading to the Gaza hoping that one can break the Israeli blockade of Gaza was just a very childish way of solving the problem, because as I said, for the first Israeli government has no respect for/confidence in European countries, particularly Sweden based on the bloody history before and during the Second World War. For the second the convoy did not have any Israelis and American (those who are opposed the blockade, and there are many of them in Israel and in the US) aboard. For the third those who ran the project Ship to Gaza needed to have some colorful Israeli for instance cultural elite on board to make sure the safety of those people aboard the vessels. The lack of those above mentioned considerations made it easier for Israeli forces to aggressively carry out the attack on the convoy. For the fourth the Israeli- Palestinian conflict is more complicated to be solved or to be teased in this way.

Do not forget that Israel is located in a very hostile region and among hostile countries that make the situation even more complicated. The Israeli government is aware of the fact that the hostile and very rich countries in the region such as Saudi Arabia and Iran can cause huge problems for Israeli people if Israel shows a weak image of itself. The fact that Israelis act in that way is because of fear they feel and they know that they are not strong enough compared with those Arabic countries and The Islamic regime of Iran which are committed to destroy the land of Israel. Israel is not that strong that the European countries want to apply.

I remember the founder of the Islamic regime of Iran, ayatollah Khomeini ones said: If every Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be sunk. That is the reason they act as they do. It is a reaction of fear. It is not an action of strength.

John af Donner, a Swedish Red Cross chief executive has been charged with fraud and with embezzling almost one million dollars of Swedish Red Cross fund along with two others. He admitted his own role as a key person in this tangle.

Göran Lindberg, a top Swedish police chief who was operating once as a front figure fighting prostitution and trafficking has been charged with being involved in a range of child sexual abuse and child rape. He admitted some of above mentioned accusations.

Eliot Laurence Spitzer, a New York governor made himself a high profile, respecting and defending women´s right. He was also strongly against women being exposed in activities such as prostitution and pornographic movies. He has been caught of buying sexual services of a ring of luxury prostituted women. He admitted his involvement and resigned from his post after being exposed in the media around the World.

Swedish bishop Anders Arbeorelus has admitted that he had knowledge for more than eight years about two children being abused and raped multiple times by a pedophile Catholic priest in seventies without doing anything about it.  The Catholic Church has been involved in a range of sexual abuse and child rapes  around the World in many years.

The fact that there are individuals in every level of society who engage in criminal and inappropriate activities is not strange. And there is no need to debate about why a priest, a police executive, a Red Cross Chief or a member of a government engages in such activities. They are human being like others with their own short comings and sometimes their own disorders. There is no doubt in my mind that a person who engages in activities such as preventing trafficking and child sexual abuse and the person himself engages in the same time in abusing children must be a sick person with a serious sexual and personality disorder.

My point of writing this article is that the fact that those people have been exposed, charged, and in some cases prosecuted and sentenced is showing us that we have build a solid and democratic system in Sweden and many other countries with which the system discovers and punishes individuals with key positions and with political and financial power. Things can even go wrong in such a system as we saw for instance in Thomas Quick case, alleged as a serial killer of eight homicides. That is why these solid and democratic systems need a functional surveillance. Furthermore, exposing and punishing a highly decorated police chief executive or a mayor is almost impossible in corrupted countries or corrupted systems.

However, there is a major difference when it comes to the Catholic Church´s handling of allegations of a huge number of systematic child sexual abuses by pedophile priests around the World. It seems that the Catholic Church systematically, consciously and foolishly has ordered it´s bishops around the World to cover up and belittle child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. There is evidence that the Catholic Church with Joseph Alois Ratzinger / Benedictus XVI at the highest level did not do anything to admit the problem in the first place and try to solve it. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as he was called in eighties has signed an order not to discharge a priest who admitted child sexual abuse in order to protect the Catholic Church´s reputation. The Vatican has confirmed that the signature is authentic. The general and common statement of the Catholic Church has always been to deny the problem and by doing so to ignore and to continue hurting thousands and ten thousands individuals who have been raped and abused by this organization in decades. I feel discussing that the Pope who is responsible at the first place never addresses the problem and even worse he tries to cover it up. Such a behavior is not just sick but also criminal.

Moreover, as we see the heads of the Catholic Church/ the Vatican are almost sure that they can act over the international law without being worried to get caught or punished. Such a powerful cooperation as the Catholic Church with a strong relationship with the modern World gives itself the right to act unethical and immoral beneath a mask of highly respected men of God. The Vatican City State is a clear example of a highly corrupted state.

“This is not only about the cost of our health care but the character of our country – about whether we are still a nation that gives its citizens a chance to reach their dreams.”

Even though this new law is not that powerful it is a powerful move in a right direction. Editor SERP.

I consider Hamas as a gang of criminals that in several years has had civilian Israelis as a target. Hamas has fired off more than 10 000 missiles against Israeli towns and villages during the last years. They are criminals also because they use civilian Palestinians as human concrete bags and because they cynically hide themselves behind women and children. But to put to death still more civilian Palestinians will not pursue Israel somewhere, since Hamas could not care itself smaller. As Hamas leader Khaled Mashal recently said in Damascus: “the current generation of Palestinians feels to be sacrificed”. The only effective military reply from Israeli forces is one carefully planed, proportionate attack against the criminals of Hamas while taking all possible considerations to innocent Palestinians’ lives.

Egypt wants to mediate a cease-fire. Israel must give the offer an opportunity.

We should not forget that a peace treaty between Israel and the moderate Palestinian authority is a adequate and final kind against Hamas. Such an agreement is fully possible and perhaps even near imminent.

I am very much familiar with this kind of thinking of extreme Muslim organizations such as Al-Qaida, Hamas and the Islamic regime of Iran. According to their view of Islam they have in principle no respect for human lives neither their own, in other words, other Muslims nor non-Muslims. According to their understanding of Islam a Muslim’s lives is of no significance before the execution of God’s words. With God’s words it meant to be understood their takeover and governing. This thinking means that although a Muslim dies in a fight or as a suicide bomber he/she ends up in the paradise and the earthly life is nothing compared with the holy life in the paradise with seventy virgin angels in their service. Hamas uses its own population as human shields without having a bit consideration about their security even if they die of Israeli bombs they end up at a better place, therefore the paradise. However Hamas up to and including helps their own people to end up at a better place while they protect their own flashes, living in lexery out side the Gaza Strip in order to pursue the war furthermore and has also to have a lot to say in its war rhetoric against Israel through saying that Israel has put to death more than 1000 civilian lives. I remember well that young university’s student that became Hamas warrior during the war who said straightly into the camera that “it is not important that civilian population dies. They become martyrs”. With other words they end up in the paradise, a better place.

I am also completely familiar with this type of fundamentalism at the Islamic regime of Iran. They qualified thousand/ten thousand teenagers to the war of Iran and Iraq during 1979 and 1988 that had neither military education nor proper equipment, but the regime used them as human shields during attacks against the Iraqi army or the military let them to run over mine fields/country mines in order to open corridors for an offensive. The regime said all the time that every one of these young people will end up in the paradise, and which place can be better than the paradise. I see the same way of thinking and the same way of approaching with the leadership of Hamas that takes its fuel both ideologically, financially and military from the Islamic regime of Iran.

Samuel E. Rajeus, editor, published first time at www.serp.nu March 2009