Qassam rockets: from Ynet news
Dagbladet reports on how freelancing journalist Yngvild Mortensen has her knickers in a twist as Israel refuses to grant her press accreditation. The reason Ms.Mortensen is not getting one is because she is a freelancer, and not in steady employ. When one looks back upon the long series of biased journalist that Ms.Mortensen has delivered however, one cannot help but wonder whether the truly remarkable aspect of this story is that any newspaper can actually bring itself to actually buy any of her copy. Here is a taste of the material Ms.Mortensen delivers (Unauthorized translation from Dagbladet 2007):
It is horribly stupid to fire Qassam-rockets, but the rockets are not at the core of the problem. Has Johansen forgotten that the Westbank is occupied? Is he not aware that Gaza is occupied, as head of UNRWA John Ging stated in an interview here in this newspaper a few days ago? What does our government believe about an occupied people’s right to use arms in order to obtain self-determination?
The rocketattacks against civilian and military targets in Israel is not blind terrorism carried out by violence-glorifying people. The wobbly, homemade rockets are an expression of deep frustration and hopelessness generated by 60 years of refugee status for those who were driven out during the war in 1947-49 and 40 years of occupation of the Westbanka nd Gaza. And, maybe more than anything else the rockets are a source of income in an area with an economy which is, in Foreign Ministry-lingo, “severly strained”, or as we say “driven into the ditch”.
The above is just an illustrative sample. And no, it’s not a reader’s comment to the Guardian, this is from a journalistic piece which Yngvild Mortensen very well may have received monies for. Shockingly, this just might be how she makes a living.
It just defies reason.
Rakettangrepene mot sivile og militære mål i Israel er ikke blind terror utført av voldsglorifiserende mennesker. De hjemmelagde vinglete rakettene er et uttrykk for dyp frustrasjon og håpløshet generert gjennom 60 års flyktningtilværelse for dem som ble fordrevet under krigen i 1947–49 og 40 år med okkupasjon av Vestbredden og Gaza. Og, kanskje mer enn noe annet er rakettene en inntektskilde i et område med en økonomi som er, på UD-språk, «hardt presset», eller på vanlig, «kjørt i grøfta».
