NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations

September 1, 2010
By admin

When Charles W. Freeman had to resign from a position with the Obama administration in March 2009, he blamed the Israel-Lobby. On Wednesday he visited NUPI in order to speak about US-Israel relations.

Vårt Land reports, in an NTB article, that Freeman has as little faith in the current round of peace negotiations as Norwegian ME pundit Hilde Henriksen Waage. Freeman’s visit raises two questions:

1) Freeman is famously critical of Israel and the US-Israel lobby. Why does NTB not mention this? All NTB says about this is that he is “controversial” in the USA. Why not tell the public straight out that Freeman blamed the Israel-Lobby after being forced to resign in 2009?

2) Other speakers NUPI have invited to speak include Walt and Mearsheimer, authors of “The Israel lobby”. Does NUPI prefer to invite critics of Israel over supporters of Israel? If so, why?

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2 Responses to NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations

  1. Gaute on September 1, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Hei. Har dere oversikt, statistikk over bistand gitt til palestinerne fra Norge de siste tiårene??

  2. admin on September 2, 2010 at 5:40 am

    Hei Gaute

    Interessant tema. Jens Arup Seip rådet alltid sine studenter: “Den som vil analysere maktforhold skal følge pengene”. Og når nordmenn vil analysere maktforholdet til Israel-lobbyen til USA så viser de gjerne til kapitlet “The great benefactor” i Walt og Mearsheimers bok “Israel lobby”. Men ikke en eneste norsk journalist eller forsker har hittil kommet på å studere den norske Palestina-lobbyens makt på samme måte.

    MIFF har en veldig god oversikt med henvisninger og lenker til orginalkildene hos NORAD. Se her: http://www.miff.no/x-NorskBistandTilPalestinskeOmraader.htm

    Med vennlig hilsen
    CT

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