Many thanks to DarLink for the translation of the Hebrew portions, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. Note: the original recording posted on the Israeli TV network’s website is defective, and is the cause of all the video and audio problems in this clip. The translator has made a heroic effort to recover the garbled portions of the Hebrew voice-over, but there are some unavoidable gaps.
Also, unless Blogger has fixed its “feature”, you will have to click the “read more” link before you can watch the video, at least on Internet Explorer:
A full transcript is below the jump.
Transcript:
00:01 | We continue today with a series | |
00:03 | of special articles about the rise | |
00:04 | of extreme right-wing parties | |
00:05 | in Europe. | |
00:06 | Tonight it is Sweden. | |
00:07 | The right-wing party Sweden Democrats | |
00:09 | dramatically joined the Swedish parliament | |
00:11 | after elections last month, | |
00:13 | while supporting an anti-Islam | |
00:15 | and pro-Israel agenda. | |
00:16 | But it appears that they have a pro-Nazi past | |
00:18 | and once even proposed a law | |
00:20 | against eating kosher meat. | |
00:22 | Amit Segal, our correspondent in Europe, | |
00:24 | met with party representatives in Sweden. | |
00:27 | Meet Sweden. | |
00:29 | “Tolerance” is the state’s religion. | |
00:31 | “Politically correct” is the official language. | |
00:33 | And now meet the Sweden Democrats party… | |
00:51 | 20 new members joined the parliament, | |
00:55 | with their leader barely over 30. | |
00:58 | When one hears the muezzin call for prayer | |
01:00 | on Friday in the heart of Stockholm, | |
01:02 | one can understand the meteoric success | |
01:04 | of the party, which carries the flag of | |
01:06 | struggle against Muslim immigration. | |
01:14 | This is Kent Ekeroth, just 29 years old, | |
01:16 | and already a member of parliament. | |
01:30 | When Sweden is the head of | |
01:32 | the rotational EU presidency, | |
01:34 | the Israeli government is on standby: | |
01:35 | This is a country that claimed that | |
01:37 | Israel’s soldiers harvested Palestinians’ organs. | |
01:39 | Here is Malmö — the city with the highest | |
01:41 | Muslim population on the European continent. | |
01:46 | What you see is the reason for the dizzying success | |
01:48 | of the Sweden Democrats. | |
01:49 | This is also why they are the only party in | |
01:51 | Europe to press Israel’s government to | |
01:52 | continue building in the West Bank. | |
02:36 | When the president of Sweden’s Jewish community | |
02:38 | thinks this way, it is a sign that | |
02:40 | the story behind it should be interesting. | |
03:00 | The party’s chairman was forced to request | |
03:02 | party members in the previous decade | |
03:05 | not to not bring SS symbols to the meetings anymore. | |
03:19 | This is not certain. One of the most prominent | |
03:21 | donors to the party in the previous decade | |
03:23 | was French racist Jean-Marie Le Pen. | |
03:25 | By the way, even if tomorrow | |
03:27 | 100,000 bearded Jews were to decide to immigrate | |
03:31 | to Stockholm, they will not be met with | |
03:32 | open arms. The Sweden Democrats propose | |
03:35 | to forbid Kosher and Halal meat, | |
03:37 | and even to make circumcision illegal. | |
04:01 | Yes. Some of the texts of the Sweden Democrats | |
04:03 | appear to be taken from Israel’s | |
04:05 | foreign affairs ministry and maybe that’s why | |
04:07 | it is worth listening to Swedish liberal | |
04:11 | member of parliament [???] who says: “Israelis | |
04:13 | should be careful. You are being used | |
04:17 | to whitewash the stains of this party’s voice, | |
04:19 | to cleanse their past, | |
04:21 | to hide their Nazi past and to | |
04:23 | cover up their xenophobic present.” | |
04:25 | But it is even more complicated | |
04:27 | than that, because Ekeroth is a Jew, too. | |
04:29 | And this, if you please, | |
04:31 | is the heart of the story. | |
04:33 | Israel... | |
04:35 | strange coalition.... | |
04:37 | Ultraliberal left and Radical Islam... | |
04:43 | Creates strange coalition with parties... | |
04:46 | ... | |
04:48 | In the end it is a dilemma between | |
04:50 | two ancient truths: | |
04:52 | “Is my enemy’s enemy my friend?” | |
04:54 | Or “With friends like these who need enemies?” |