Verdens Gang (VG) - Norway's largest daily
Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest daily. In today’s editorial the newspaper claims that the Bishops Boycott is, pretty much, a walk down nonsense street. Unauthorized translation:
We believe that the Bishops ought to bury the though of a boycott of trade as soon as possible. They receive the same encouragement from Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in yesterday’s VG. He is invited to the upcoming Bishops-meeting, and if we know the Foreign Minister right, he will repeat his resistance – in detail and forecefully.
The proposal received the wholehearted support of doctor and Palestine-activist Mads Gilbert, who became known over large parts of the world during the bombing of Gaza last year. He says that the Bishops are on the right track as opposed to Støre, and believes that a boycott is what Israel fears the most. But in this context it is farfetched of Gilbert to compare with the fight against apartheid and the boycott of South-Africa – one of the few international boycotts to have worked.
It is interesting to see how VG refers to the Hamas-Israel war as “the bombing of Gaza”. VG would not refer to the war on Nazi-Germany as “the bombing”, rather they would refer to it as WWII. As for Norway’s contribution to ISAF in Afghanistan, it’s not even a war, far less a “bombing”. Norway’s ISAF presence is a “peace effort”.
Eufemisms for Norway then, but not for Israel.
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