Christian Democrats
Christian Democrat Inger Lise Hansen caused a huge uproar when she recently displayed a list of seven items which she believed would draw a larger proportion of the electorate – a full three of the four points consisted of being less supportive of Israel. It is difficult to imagine what is more scary – that a Christian Democrat might actually believe such a thing or that she might be right.
Ms.Hansen now says in DagenMagazinet that she is “a friend of Israel“, pointing out:
I believed among other that one may be a friend of Israel even if one criticizes what the authorities in Israel are doing. It cannot be that one must praise all what Israeli authorities do in order to qualify as a friend of Israel. I also felt it was wrong not to be able to talk about the miserable conditions of the Palestinians, says Hansen.
– I am still a friend of Israel. I have just as much of being so, she says.
Ms.Hansen is of course right in that nobody in any party should feel obliged to applaud any and all decisions of any foreign government. But isn’t the problem in Norway today that far too many focus far too much on precisely Israel?
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As an ex-Scandinavian Israeli I have hard time to follow Ms. Inger Lise Hansen’s logics. When Israel says to the Norwegian government that your country is the most anti-Semitic country in Europe, the Norwegian government dismisses such claims instantly and ridicules them.
Can the Israeli remark also be understood as the reciprocal of how Ms. Hansen puts it: “I believed among other that one may be a friend of [Norway] even if one criticizes what the authorities in [Norway] are doing.”? Could it really be so that only the Norwegians are able and capable to honest, sincere and accurate criticism and it is only the Israelis that are always wrong in their criticism?
I can say as a fact that the Norwegian criticism is patently wrong, which obviously (hopefully) results from the practically non-existing Norwegian understanding of the realities in the Israeli-Palestinian (or more correctly, Israeli-Islam conflict). I, for one, find the Israeli criticism of Norway extremely justified. If you can show me another country in the world that Norway criticizes like it does Israel, I withdraw my opinion of non-justified criticism. The selectivity of the criticism is way beyond reasonable statistical distribution.
What comes to Ms. Inger Lise Hansen’s indication of friendship, I’d like to point out that when Israel criticizes Norway, it does not organize Norway boycotts, divestments, anti-Norway demonstrations, promote UN anti-Norwegianism etc. Norwegian friendship seems to say that Norway is such a good friend of Israel that it feels free to hit Israel on every opportunity.
Dear Stefan
I could not agree more. Criticism of Israel has become almost mandatory throughout large parts of the political spectrum. The worst thing is that people like Ms.Hansen probably truly believes that criticizing Israel is something a Norwegian politician ought to engage in on a regular basis.
C.T
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Hi there,
I just found this site, looking for info on Scandinavia and Jews.
Needless to say I am horrified by the garbage coming out of Europe.
However I wonder if you (admin) have heard of a document/strategy called the euro Arab Dialogue? Written by Bat Ye’Or – she discusses the EU bargain to receive oil from the Arab/Muslim world and in return swamp EU with ASrabs and Msulims and adopt their views and attitudes to Jews/Israel.
it’s at dhimmitude.com, or Google it, you’ll find it.
It will explain much about the situation in Europe. As well, it’s been revealed that Labour in UK decided to swamp UK with Islamic immigrants as well, basically to get back at the right-wing in England!! Crazy and malevolent. This was written in the Mail Online, by James Slack.
If you already know about this oh well.