Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is as quick to criticize Israel for human rights transgressions as he is to kow-tow to the slave-owning sheikhs of UAE in the hope of opening up the emirates for Norwegian Statoil. The media lets him get away with this. The intellectuals go “ah, well, anti-Semitism is a great evil indeed, yet we must not confuse it with legitimate criticism of Israel…oh goodness, no… ”
Here is a piece of Mr.Støre’s mind, visit the MFA web-site for the rest of The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a Reminder:
“The currents and attitudes that led to the Holocaust and to genocide did not disappear when Auschwitz was liberated or when the Second World War ended in 1945. They are appearing in new forms and in new places. In our own time, new names have been added to a sombre list: Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica. In our country, too, there are groups who feel stigmatised and unsafe because of their beliefs. As a society, we must fight against this – against anti-Semitism and ideologies that exclude groups of people and spread hatred. This is a struggle that concerns us all, and where we all have a responsibility,” Mr Støre said.
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