Friday, April 01, 2011

TRUE FINNS’ TIMO SOINI VOICES STRONG SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL IN FINNISH ELECTIONS DEBATE…….


KGS

It’s election time in Finland. There’s been a series of debates between the leaders of the various parties over the past few weeks. Last night’s debate between the top four parties (seated from left to right), Jutta Urpilainen (SDP), Jyrki Katainen (Kok), Timo Soini (True Finns) and Mari Kiviniemi (PM Center Party) revealed an interesting statement. H/T Vasarahammer.Towards the very end of the debate which focused exclusively on Finnish domestic issues as well as the EU financial mess, the very last question to the debating panel was by a Leftist concerning the Libyan question. There’s bee a lot of talk about whether Finland needs to involve itself by offering some of it’s F-16′s especially since Sweden has went along with the coalition.

Question: “Now that the West has decided to go into Libya to bring democracy with the barrel of a gun, what should we do in your opinion with some of EU’s allies, like for example, Saudi Arabia where there are hardly any kind of human rights there at all? I’m also interested in how are you going to defend the implemtation of human rights, for example in the Palestinian areas.”

Actually, It’s great that the issue of Saudi Arabia came up, and identified by this leftist as a country which doesn’t respect human rights for its citizens. The Tundra Tabloids suspects however, that the sole intention of the question was sling an arrow more than to highlight Saudi Arabia’ deplorable HR record.

But what came next was a wonderful surprise:

Timo Soini: “I don’t want to take Finland to war anywhere. This is an extremely grave reminder of the development that’s happened in different Arab countries, but when Mubarak left there wasn’t a democracy that materialized, there is a 75 year old general currently in power, that’s what has happened.

Where the Middle East is concerned, I am a friend of Israel I dare to say, which is surrounded by hostile Arab states. It has (Israel) the right to live and to exist.

Great to see a Finnish politician of great influence who’s a friend of Israel, and who by the way, was the only one sitting there who offered Israel support. You can interpret what Timo Soini said as a direct answer to the leftist who asked the question. KGS

NOTE: The debate (in Finnish) can be seen here

UPDATE: The Hell-singing Sanomat has an article about last night’s debate. No mention of Soini’s support for Israel, which is par for the course, as well as a good indicator that his pro-Israel views are not a negative factor, otherwise they would have filled their headlines with it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There seems to be a typo in the name of the paper.. The right form is "Helsingin Sanomat", in english something like "The newspaper of Helsinki".

Anonymous said...

Finally someone in Finland who has the balls to stand up against the EU and is putting his country FIRST and not following the others like the Finns tend to do. The pro-Israel comment is another proof of that! Way to go Timo! :)

Anonymous said...

The ancient promise about Israel is still current: "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee..."