Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the online news portal Nya Dagbladet:
Billström: Swedish citizens in Gaza “must take responsibility”
by Jan Sundstedt
November 14, 2023Foreign Minister Tobias Billström points out that the Foreign Affairs Department has been advising against travel to Gaza for a decade, and that the hundreds of Swedish citizens who are still there in Gaza now must learn to take responsibility for their situations.
The Swedish government has received some criticism from the opposition and other actors and is accused of having done “too little” to help Swedish citizens who are stuck in the Gaza war, criticism that Billström dismisses.
“I want to underline that the Foreign Affairs Department has been advising against travel to Gaza for ten years. All who are there have defied this advice and gone there at their own risk, and we must remember that this advice was issued for a reason, which is not something that happens lightly,” he says to the tax-financed SVT [Swedish State Television].
He points out that Swedish authorities have a very small latitude to act in the region and that those who go against the authorities’ advice themselves bear a responsibility to remedy the situation.
80 can leave
“Again, I want to underline the personal responsibility that all those who are in Gaza today themselves bear.”
The Foreign Affairs Department is in contact with its ambassadors in Tel Aviv and Cairo to be able to assist Swedish citizens who ask for help. About 80 Swedish citizens have also obtained permission to leave Gaza and go to Egypt — but it is unclear how many have actually made it there.
There are currently about 500 Swedish citizens in the area — almost all being Palestinians who were granted Swedish citizenship and then, for reasons that are unclear, returned to Gaza.
Bloody leave them there, maybe the Israeli’s will do everyone a favor and eliminate them. They are not Swedes, they are 3rd world arab muslims, let them rot.
As citizens they are required to join the military and get first class training aside from all the resources they have access to in Sweden. It’s a bit of a no-brainer why so many have returned and what percentage are the proverbial fighting age male – trained by the Swedish army?
The muzzy’s are exempt from Swedish service, for even the stubborn Swedes are not so stupid to give a 3rd worlder a rifle.