Sweden’s coalition has (at least on this issue) come to its senses, no thanks to the misguided Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson:
Sweden called on the European Union on Thursday to suspend the trade component of the bloc’s Association Agreement with Israel, in protest against the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitarian situation.
“The situation in Gaza is utterly… pic.twitter.com/xTUU7EQukZ
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) August 1, 2025
One hopes that other countries will follow Sweden’s turnaround. However, the recognition that Hamas is at fault for October 7 is only a beginning. Hamas is also to be blamed for using human shields, which created the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. It os also to blame for stealing aid in Gaza, which intensified the suffering of its own people. Its objective, however, was accomplished: it caused further blame to be heaped upon Israel for starvation in Gaza.
“Sweden Walks Back Israel Stance, Admits Hamas at Fault for War,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, August 7, 2025:
Amid a flood of internal criticism, the centre-right government in Sweden appears to be backtracking on its “one-sided” stance towards Israel, potentially including its calls to cut off EU trade.
Last week, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced that Stockholm wanted a suspension of the trade agreement between the European Union and Israel over supposed failures in “fulfilling its most basic obligations” around humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Members of all three governing coalition parties were quick to criticise the stance, which many argued failed to recognise that Hamas was to blame for the start of the war with the October 7th terror attacks and therefore bears the primary responsibility for the suffering of the inhabitants of Gaza.
Coalition partner and leader of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats (SD), Jimmie Åkesson, wrote in the Expressen newspaper that pushing to freeze trade with Israel “is not only economically and diplomatically harmful – it is morally wrong and politically short-sighted.”
Åkesson went on to say that if his party had known that the government would have been “so erratic and weak in Middle Eastern politics,” it would have pushed for foreign policy guarantees in the coalition agreement that saw his party join the government in 2022.
Israel’s ambassador to Stockholm, Ziv Nevo Kulman, thanked Åkesson for his “important contribution that clarifies the reality – that so many others quietly support.” This marked a notable shift from Jerusalem towards the SD, which had previously refused to have any contact with the populist party for being too “far-right”.…
somehistory says
If hamas was an entirely different country….like Germany was to the U.K. in WWII….Israel would *possibly* not be expected to provide aid to keep its enemies alive, well and fighting.
Because hamas *occupies* land which belongs to Israel, the government is expected to provide aid to those who fight to murder on until every last Jew is dead.
In a sane and somewhat moral world, Israel would be expected to rid its Land of terrorists, murderers, rapists, and eliminate the threat to its citizens.
Like when criminals hold up a bank and take hostages. The force goes against the crimnals….who are not fed and doctored…to reclaim the bank and rescue the hostages.
One small step….it would be larger if not an isolated part….to recognize that Israel has, after all, some *reason* for fighting the ghouls of hamas.
MK says
Thank you Sweden for finally understanding. Now kick the terrorists out of your country
Alkflaeda says
Definitely better late than never – but I’m wondering why the change of heart, welcome though it undoubtedly is. Not least because if we knew what had happened, we could perhaps help it to happen to others.
Mike says
I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that the change of heart is a result of it becoming widely known that Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe.
James Lincoln says
Finally, some good news coming out of Sweden.