Golden Gate of Stockholm

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Friday March 13, 2020 · 2:02 AM PDT

2020/03/13 · 02:02

New Golden Gate for Stockholm being unloaded after arriving by boat from China. Snapshot from web broadcast by svtplay.se (Swedish Public Broadcasting on the web).

What a time to be alive. As the Corona virus has already arrived and established itself in Stockholm, Sweden from China (via Iran and Italy) after a long and eventful journey by sea the new Golden Gate bridge for a connecting Gamla Stan, the old town, and Södermalm, the southernmost island of central Stockholm also is arriving from China.

You can (I hope) follow it all here www.svtplay.se/…

Some stats: The bridge is 140 meters (459 feet) long, made of steel and weighing 3400 metric tons. It’s been manufactured in China and brought to Sweden in one piece by heavy load carrrier Zhen Hua 33. The journey by sea was planned to take 7 weeks but troubled seas made it 11 weeks before arrival in Stockholm.

The bridge is part of a redesign of the area known as Slussen (The lock) where the Baltic sea meets the lake Mälaren.

Campaign song for Bernie

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Sunday April 03, 2016 · 3:32 PM PDT

2016/04/03 · 15:32

Not much of a diary but I offer this as a new campaign song for Bernie

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The Gaza Strip is an Israeli prison

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Sunday July 20, 2014 · 4:54 AM PDT

2014/07/20 · 04:54

This commentary is from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, my translation...
I couldn't have said it better myself.

Startpage / Debates 2014-07-18
The Gaza Strip is an Israeli prison (Commentary in Swedish)
1.8 million human beings in the Gaza Strip are the prisoners of Israel. The army and air force of Israel can at any time bomb and kill the Gaza citizens without the prisoner guards being held accountable. To ask the prisoners to now go back to their cells and forget about all the destruction and their 205 dead and 1700 wounded, most of them women and children, is illogical.

The Palestinians have been negotiating since 1994. And what has come of it? New settlements, a new wall engulfing Palestinian land, humiliation at abhorrent road blocks, house demolitions, extra-judicial killings and arrests.

Iraeli apologiess, that in the hunt for terrorists they just happen to kill, arrest and humiliate the Palestinians, seems to be accepted by the media. Palestinians will never accept this and that Israel "just happen to" kill children. Israel has bombed Gaza with three thousand tons of missiles and killed indiscriminantly. The evil lies in the occupation. As long as the occupation persists so will the resistance to it. Free yourselves from the violent grip of the occupation and give the Palestinians their rights.

To cry anti-semitism each and every time criticism is directed towards Israel is just a bad excuse to make journalists back off. Israel puts forward new demands during peace negotiations with the Palestinians, the latest of which being that the Palestinians have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. That though would demand Israel behave civilized and honorable as a representative for the Jewish religion, and not as executioners and prisoner guards. As long as the occupation persists the prisoner revolt will too.

Nael Touqan

Palestinska Föreningen i Stockholm

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